Airbrush Technique Issue 23 - (Page 9) 3. I begin adding my shadows to the recessed portion of our lettering (the parts that I weeded out). This is done in the exact same manner as we did in the recessed lettering exercise; darkest towards the light source, and allowed to fade away. 4. Now, I will start adding the drop shadow underneath my outlines. Once again, I will add a tight, dark shadow immediately under my lettering, all making sense to our light source. 5. Now, I begin to fade away the drop shadows, spraying a much more fuzzy and diffuse pattern, making the shadow appear lighter and lighter as it moves further away from our raised surfaces (lettering outlines). 6. I remove my vinyl letters, and now you can see how we combined both raised and recessed lettering into a really cool looking style. Look close between the 2 lines, and you can see how our shadows act, and create that “highlight” on the second line of lettering without using white; much more natural looking, and easier for the mind to process the illusion. Being in business since October of 2004 Tom Hudach is taking the custom paint world by storm! Working with his father this two-man crew does everything from bodywork to clear coats and everything in between. Producing show bike after show bike and is always looking forward to the next project. Tom has won First, I drew out my tiki design onto a piece of paper. Notice if you slightly bend the edges of the paper you can see the outline of the Ukulele, making it easer to size up. countless paint awards and has been in a number of magazines; and now Tom is also a writer for Airbrush Technique Magazine. In this article I’ll be painting a tiki design on a Ukulele using One Shot paints, Iwata HP-Cs airbrush, Mack striping brushes. After drawing out the design I used a bit of black transfer paper, traced out the design and now I’m ready to paint. Using 1Shot, I started off this tiki with a mixture of tan and just a few drops of brown; painting just between the lines. A short jump ahead and we can start to see the look we are going for. At this point I’m still just painting between the lines to get our quick color coverage before we start to go into detailing. Imitation Gold and Silver Now its time to add black, slow down a little bit and start paying attention on our eyeball and were to detail, the fun begins! Another look after a few minutes of outlining with ready to go. black. The picture is now starting to look clean and defined.
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