The following is an average “day at the office” representing the Custom Paint and Graphics Program at Ohio Tech. This is my approach to a typical airbrush demonstration. Keep in mind, this ends up being a 3 hour long infomercial on airbrushing. I begin by speaking to the crowd for about 15 minutes about my background and the products I’m using (Auto Air Colors, Iwata Airbrushes, stencils, etc). I like to start them off with something that is so easy, anyone can do it. In this case, I’m beginning with a silver marbleized boarder. Not too hard, put the paint on so heavy that it runs..... then mash it around with a plastic bag!
I back mask the marbleized area, and lay down a light gray base for my gi- ant skull. I explain the different image transfer techniques to make up for the lack of artistic drawing ability. Tools like stencils and projectors will get your basic lines in place for you, so you don’t have to draw anything! Can you trace? I thought so! I lightly sketch my giant skull on the hood with black paint. Now, it’s nothing but a coloring book, right? Heck, we’re all familiar with that, and feel pretty confident. I explain how to properly color our skull by using highlights and shadows based off of light source theory. Common sense stuff when you think about it.
Next I start talking about displaying emotion, and how easy it really is. I use the stick drawings to illustrate that point. Not too hard to figure out what each face is feel- ing. I want my skull to be mean, nasty, and angry. This skull is going to have his war face on. So I show them a real, screaming war face! Now that I woke everyone back
up (and let the security guards know everything is OK), I talk about what happens with the face when a person is angry. I specifically talk about all the highlighted and shad- owed areas on the face, and how we will just highlight and shadow those areas on the skull.
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