3. I begin adding my shadows to the recessed portion of our lettering (the parts
that I weeded out). This is done in the exact same manner as we did in the recessed
lettering exercise; darkest towards the light source, and allowed to fade away. 4.
Now, I will start adding the drop shadow underneath my outlines. Once again, I will
add a tight, dark shadow immediately under my lettering, all making sense to our
light source.
5. Now, I begin to fade away the drop shadows, spraying a much more fuzzy and dif-
fuse pattern, making the shadow appear lighter and lighter as it moves further away
from our raised surfaces (lettering outlines). 6. I remove my vinyl letters, and now
you can see how we combined both raised and recessed lettering into a really cool
looking style. Look close between the 2 lines, and you can see how our shadows act,
and create that “highlight” on the second line of lettering without using white; much
more natural looking, and easier for the mind to process the illusion.
Being in business since October of 2004 Tom Hudach is taking has won countless paint awards and has been in a number of
the custom paint world by storm! Working with his father this magazines; and now Tom is also a writer for Airbrush Tech-
two-man crew does everything from bodywork to clear coats nique Magazine.In this article I’ll be painting a tiki design on
and everything in between. Producing show bike after show a Ukulele using One Shot paints, Iwata HP-Cs airbrush, Mack
bike and is always looking forward to the next project. Tom striping brushes.
First, I drew out
After draw-
my tiki design
ing out the
onto a piece of
design I used
paper. Notice if
a bit of black
you slightly bend
transfer pa-
the edges of the
per, traced
paper you can
out the de-
see the outline of
sign and now
the Ukulele, mak-
I’m ready to
Using 1Shot, I started off this tiki with
ing it easer to
paint.
a mixture of tan and just a few drops of
size up.
brown; painting just between the lines.
A short jump ahead and
we can start to see the
look we are going for.
At this point I’m still just
painting between the
lines to get our quick
color coverage before we
start to go into detailing.
Imitation Gold and Silver
Now its time to add black, slow down a little bit and start paying attention
on our eyeball and were
to detail, the fun begins! Another look after a few minutes of outlining with
ready to go.
black. The picture is now starting to look clean and defined.
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