2. COMART TRANSPARENT COLORS- The most erasable 4. UNBLEACHED WHITE ACRYLIC by Liquitex: all other white
acrylics for airbrushing. acrylics will turn the other tones bluish, with the bleach that
3. HOLBEIN AREOFLASH TRANSPARENT COLORS- Best re- white acrylic is made out of.
ductive color pigments but less forgiving than Comart.
THE FRISKET FREE TOOLS
1. IWATA CUSTOM MICRON AIRBRUSHES- You don’t have to mask details that you can
render free hand if your airbrush is good enough. Our studios use the bottom fed Eclipses for
tinting and wider spraying, and the Custom Micron C (top fed) for all detail and stippling work.
I’ve used every airbrush known to man over 2 decades, and nothing works better for frisket
free creativity than this IWATA airbrush combination.
2. SAND ERASER PENCIL
This will be your primary drawing
tool when it comes to the details of
your art that are done on the white
of the board. A good sand eraser
pencil must be sharpenable, and have a high grit. My favorite is the Sanford Typewriter erasers. But there are lots of choices out
there.
3. PINK PEARL SOFT STICK ERASER
These are pencil stick pink pearl erasers that
are softer and wider, obviously for erasing out
softer wider shapes. I use a crayon sharpener if
they need to be shaped.
4. THE EXACTO KNIFE
6. ELECTRIC ERASER WITH PEN N PENCIL NIBS
This is the real secret to frisket free art. An exacto knife will
The SAKURA electric eraser brand is my favorite tool for spe-
give you tighter detail than the sharpest pencil. My best reduc-
cial effects. If you need a quick highlight, or you are adding vari-
tive secret is to use the exacto lightly, creating with my wrist a
ant texture, the electric eraser is god. I use the ink nibs for the
little vibration to the tip of the blade. I can tickle away the softest
extremely tight highlights, and then the white pencil nibs are
details without even touching the board. It takes practice, but
used for softer-edged details. Tap it all over to create slight tex-
my best details are done 80 percent of the time with the exacto
tures. The electric eraser is great for busting up frisket edges
knife. Used lightly and with a wide light stroke, you can even cre-
too.
ate soft shading.
7. FREEHAND AIRBRUSH SHIELDS
5. KNEADED ERASER AND SQUARE PINK PEARL ERASER
If you build up your media in transparent layers carefully enough,
Sometimes you need to pull back a wide area or lighten up a
you won’t need these, but from time to time having a hand held
pigment. Using a little muscle and a faster, lighter stroke, the
mask can make for fast control of heavily pigmented, or opaque,
large gummy/square pink pearl erasers are magic. I work 20
areas. Holding the masks slightly above the surface, or vibrating
by 30 most the time and sometimes the larger areas need to
the shields back and forth as I spray can give me soft edges in
be controlled.
large areas, without having to cut a Frisket mask.
Hopefully we have established the reason-
ing behind working FRISKET FREE, and
with most of the core tools, and a few
secret weapons listed, I wanted to show
you some art in its early then finished
stages. An actual step by step would be
BIBLE sized, so I am going to skip all of our
concept tools, reference library tips, digi-
tal assembly tricks, projection notes, and
digital stylization steps, and just show you
the half way stages and finished art done
“Unfinished” by Bart and Melody Webster
completely frisket free.
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