My name is Patrick Dodde I live in the Netherlands and have In this step-by-step article I will be rendering a portrait of Ein-
been airbrushing for eleven years. I recently open a small air- stein on illustration board using only one color which is Met-
brush supply business here in the Netherlands you can check alflake Black. My airbrush of choice is the Iwata CM-B; other
out my on line store at www.aaes.nl and my art work on www. supplies I will use are Frisket, an assortment of easers and of
airart.nl. course a respirator.
I prefer finishing
Step 1: After drawing the por-
of the background
trait with the help of a Super
and then focus on
Prism projector I completely
the portrait. Oth-
mask off the main subject with
er artists finish
Frisket. As you can see here
the portrait first
after cutting the Frisket using
then the back-
an X-acto knife I start of with
ground it’s noth-
the background of the portrait.
ing more than
It’s a simple background so it
personal prefer-
won’t distract from the main
ence as to which
portrait.
you do first.
Step 2: When doing portraits I al- Close up of the eyes nearly completed, I used Step 3: Here I have finished most of the
ways begin with the eyes and build hand erasers and electric erasers for adding nose; I don’t finish it completely because I
up the nose, mouth and rest of the highlights to the eyes. When using erasers want to be able to go back when I finished
face around the eyes, so the eyes like this it’s important to apply your paint in the lower part of the face to bring the whole
are a reference for the rest of the thin layers. You will find using this technique area to completion at once. Remember
portrait. Always try to build up those more difficult on illustration board that has a that you can easily go darker with transpar-
tones very slow so you can correct lot of texture; you might want to buy several ent paint, going back and making it lighter
any mistakes you make. I thinned different types of illustration board to try be- is harder!
down the paint a lot, in a ratio 1 fore settling on one particular brand or type
drop of paint to about 35 drops of of illustration board.
reducer.
Step 5: I finished of the moustache and the mouth. The moustache is basically
painted using dagger strokes and using an eraser to bring out the highlights. You
also can use a X-acto knife for some really thin highlights, but be careful! Don’t press
too hard always practice this technique before using it as you can easily damage
the surface.
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