7 LOOPS:Practicing doing loops is another good exercise
for helping you learn to control your airbrush. The goal here
is to airbrush loops all the way across the paper keeping
them all leaning the same direction and all the same height
and width. Once you are comfortable doing that try render-
ing them fat on the down stroke and thin on the up stroke.
LESSON TWO
Airbrush Lesson Two will cover shading and rendering a
sphere putting to use the shading skills you learned in les-
son one. What you will need to complete this airbrush les-
son: double action airbrush, airbrush ready colors, round
Summary: Dagger strokes or rat tail strokes are very im-
template, paper, easel. I just used a round piece of plastic as
portant to master so practice them until they become 2nd
a template feel free to use anything round you have on hand.
nature before moving on. Review the above relating to how
With airbrush ready paints (Golden Airbrush Colors, Com-
the distance from the surface your airbrush is determines
Art) and using gravity feed airbrush 10 to 20 PSI should
the results. At the top of the dagger stroke your airbrush
work fine for this lesson.
will be further away from the surface than it will be when you
are finishing the dagger stroke or bring it to a point. In the
two pictures you can see at the widest part of the dagger
stroke (top picture) my airbrush is further away from the
surface than at the narrowest part of the dagger stroke.
Step #1) Secure you round template to your painting sur-
face, paper in this case. This is accomplished much easier
standing up with your paper mounted on an easel virus’s
Once you have mastered the dagger stroke in a down ward
sitting down.
motion practice them going right to left and than left to
right.
Step #2) With the color you’ve chosen to use airbrush a
nice even circle around your template. Notice off to the right
where I’ve tested my airbrush by spraying some color be-
fore start to work on the good portion of this painting. It’s
always a good idea to test your airbrush to ensure it’s work-
ing correctly before appling color to your project. Also notice
I follow the contour of the round template and did not apply
color by airbrushing a crossed the template.
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