I painted this for you. 🐸
Im learning to airbrush...
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I will say, take my tips AFTER you get good with gradients and blending.
Another thing that could help, in terms of cost; don't use a base coat with the air gun. It takes too damn long to paint, and to dry for that matter. If you do a base coat with the air gun, it can also warp the paper because it will dry at different rates. Also, its a hell of a ton cheaper than going through a dozen bottles of air brush paint when two sprits of a spray can could do the same.
Use spray paint for base coats. Prep canvases ahead of time with spray paint and let them dry flat in a well-circulated area. This will also help prime the canvas and prevent the air brush from warping small spots because it seals the canvas away from the solvents.
Ones last material thing you can focus on as well, depending on your chosen canvas, are paint thinners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EWWFd8ij-g
What he sprays down before literally carving out the buildings is paint thinner. It allows him to move the paint on the canvas. The canvas, spray paint, AND airbrush paint all have to be able to handle whatever paint thinner you choose, so experiment well and make sure you test what happens when the piece finally dries, so it doesn't peel away over time or in the sun.
The only last thing I can say, is that you can also dip brushes in the paint thinner and flick the tips of the brush over a stick (so the brush fibers hit the stick and the dropplets are catapulted at the canvas) to create speckles like stars. The droplets form on the canvas, and nice clean round speckles can be made this way which will have a tinge of the paint around them in it instead of being dead white. Again, it depends on your materials, but it sure beats the hell out of using stencils or individually painting little stars.
Great info....
And that video was awesome!!! Man, his skill is off the chart!! I could watch him all day.
The skill is not all in the doing, it's in the method. This guy has a vast number of tricks and techniques that he discovered and fine-tuned after thousands of hours of experimentation so that it is easy for him to do them without a second thought.
Keep that in mind.
Experiment, find what makes you have that tingle in your mind that keeps you asking "what if I try this?!"
Eventually you'll be gasping every day because of how excited you are to try a new technique out.
If he makes it look easy, it's because it actually is... for him.
He developed these techniques (or his tutor did) such that it is merely a flick of the wrist to get impressive results. What you don't see are the thousands of hours of work, hundreds of cans of spray paint, and dozens of canvases that went into making the techniques fool-proof.
Apprentices do as instructed.
Experts no longer need the instructions.
Masters make the instructions.
Yes I agree. That level of skill comes from knowledge, experience and practice.
My 100th Pepe will be so much different than this one and the 1,000 one will be closer to what I see in my head.
I'm gonna sign up for a online class - it's a completely different way of thinking from other art I have dabbled in. (Drawing, painting, clay, soda lime & boro glass)