With all the skulls roughed in it’s time to place the eyes, nose and upper teeth for
which we’ll use an over reduced base black. Do not spray a solid dark black here
just enough to mark where the features will go. Work your way around the helmet
placing the eyes, nose in each skull.
Now comes the fun part as from here on in it’s all the rest and once again go over each skull this time adding a little more
is free hand airbrushing using the same over reduced black. detail and shadowing. To finish the skulls up I work black and
Pick a skull and lightly sketch in the defining features once com- white back in forth on each skull until I’m happy with the shadow
plete move on to the next skull all the way around the helmet and highlighted areas. Continue on in this fashion until you are
until you’ve touched each skull. Start with your first skull again happy with the design.
With the skulls done go alone the bottom side of each stand of barb wire (fine line tape covering the wire actually) and add a drop
shadow using the same over reduced base black. Now carefully pull the fine line tape off to reveal the barb wire and the hard part
is complete. At this point you can go back over the wire and add detail such as drop shadows where the wires cross each other
and define the pointed barb a bit more. Check the skulls over once more and we are ready to move to the next step.
Now to add some color over the design using Hose of Kolor KK Kandy Apple Red or one of the Auto Air candy colors. Again fellow
the direction on the tech sheet for which ever product you use. Last step is to apply a nice two part clear over the entire helmet
and it’s finished. I hope you enjoyed this article and I would love to see you post your results on the magazine forum website at
airbrushtechnique.com; remember it’s just paint, relax and have fun.
There is a video, DVD covering airbrushing this design included in Airbrush Artist Magazine, www.airbrushartistmagazine.com and
it’s also available on www.airbrushvideos.com
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