Airbrush, Fire, Autopaint progress.
 

Hey folks.

I dunno, some of you a while back might remember me talking about getting an airbrush setup and trying to learn how to paint fire.

Well. here is an update to that.

I got the airbrush, i used it a little, then it started to collect dust cause my first fire attempt was pure crap, and i got involved in other projects around the house.

Well now i got a girlfriend and she is pretty pushy, so badgered me into giving it another shot, and damn it went a LOT better the 2nd time, but still sucked.

The third time (last night) went pretty good, im starting to get the feel of it, and the 4th time (this morning) went even better.

Anyways, i got a ways to go before i start doing this crap on cars or bikes. But alreayd my technique is improving, and i cant wait to get home and work on it some more.

Last night i ordered up a spare needle for the airbrush, about 50 bottles of various paints, including some automotive paints, as well as a couple DVD's on custom graphics and fire. hoping to pick up some more by watching others with thier technique.

My airbrush is an IWATA Revolution CR. Pretty good brush, im digging it.


So here are the pics. Mind you the big one on the bottom is my 4th attempt and im still a novice at airbrushing, so dont bee to harsh on me, i know i have a long way to go. <grin>

Yep you suck :ohsnap: LMAO

Not that bad though.You will get better for sure.

dude, why is it that i wouldn't be suprised if your "DVD" on air burshing is called "Girls Gone Wild Finger Painting Edition"

LOL! That would be a great video!

doesnt look like fire, but it still looks kinda cool. looks hard to do IMO.

dude screw fire, paint a set of titties or something on your hood

bwaahahahha.

yeah paint a 3ft.x3ft. vagina on there too. lol.

LMAO @ the above.


Looks sweet Jack.

You guys are killin me. LOL.

Naa. I aint gonna be doin this stuff on cars.

I figure once i get the effect nailed down i can start doing bike tanks, fenders, and helmets and hawking the **** on ebay.
i see a lot of sets going from 1,300 to 1,700.

maybe a nice way to make some side cash.

Is that free hand or somewhat stenciled? I have seen these sets before and that looks damn good if that is your 3rd attempt keep it up and you'll be good from the looks of what you are doing now:breakdancesmilie:

you'll do my car once your good though, right :)

Mostly freehand, i do have some handshields that you use to get some of the swooping effects in and some of the hard color edges. The shields i got are the ones from Mike Lavallee. They definatly have some good shapes to them, but you cant just rely on them. The first time i did it using his shields the results were terrible.
i can get a firey kind of effect, but still need practice to get realistic fire.

Yah, the one on the top of the two was my 3rd, the bottom was my 4th.

I'd like to eventually do this stuff on my mustang, but when i do i think im gonna tape out the design for some oldschool style flames and then do true fire on top of that. Once the tape and masking is pulled off it will be olschool flames that look like rolling fire.

After my first attempt i just quit for about 3-4 months. The girlfriend pushed me to try again and each time i do it i see marked improvement. Im really starting to enjoy it too. im having a blast with this stuff now. :)

Badfish, well when i start getting good ill be doing some free work for advertizing. <grin> it will be probably 5-6 months of practic before i even think of doing a helmet. lol

That Mike Lavalee guy is freakin awesome, a hell of an artist. I dont know if i will ever be as good as him, but i really dont want to just imitate him, i'd rather come up with my own style for this stuff, so im trying to learn about his and other styles and devise one that works good for me.
here is a car he was doing...
http://hard.newhua.com/InfoImg/2006/...1010_56147.jpg

You could start by doing custom airbrushed ponys for the mustang grills.

The guy who does those is pretty damn good. I dont nearly have the ability to do such fine work yet.

Ive thought about that though. if i could nail that out and sell em for 20 bucks less than the competition i just might make a little scratch off of it.

And sell them on MT.:boink: :boink:


Keep up the good work.

That's pretty sweat jack, have you seen that guy that chip fuse brings in on overhaulin' to do the fame work. All he uses is a stencil he cut out of poster board I believe.

not terrible... not great...

props though... Doesn't look bad at all for yer 4th time... practice and maybe ya'll get to paint cars for the rest of yer life...

Thanks... i think... lol.

ill definatly get better. I was just pretty stoked with my 3rd and 4th try. when i get off work tonight im gonna go home and play with it some more.

lol... that sounded bad...

people are way to critical on the internet..ever notice that? if theres one thing that a few people dont like about a car, all they can say is "looks good BUT change this" ..over and over again..you never hear that **** in person..

oh well. looks ****in awesome jackie, your progressing quickly! post up more of your stuff as you go

Oh trust me i grew my thin superthick before i even THOUGHT of putting that up here. People online can be ruthless.

i can take criticism though, i certainly wouldnt want my 4th attempt on anything i own but posterboard.

Actually though, the responce has been very positive. I really diddnt expect to hear anything much kinder than greg's comment.

cool. im all charged to go mess with this stuff again. enough practice and ill be doing this crap on bike tanks and helmets for $$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

looking good man, keep em coming!
as for trying new stuff out, Ive never been a fan of flaming ponies... like, the directonalness of it... I would rather see a glossy and flaming mach 1 grill delete feeding into the engine =D

maybe people are just more bold to say the stuff they dont like online, because they dont have to stand there, look the person in the eye and tell them "it could be better"

have fun...im out...partyin on a sunday night **** YEAH!

yah... great for a first timer :beerchug:

GoodGod.... i just got registered at Airbrush.com forums...

those people are simply AMAZING..... i got a lot of practice to do....

http://www.airbrush.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=216924

Take a load of what this guy can do..... drooool.....

That dude that painted the knight on the horse is freaking awesome.http://airbrush.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=215741

dang that looks pretty dang good imo, a heck of alot better then i can do:boink:

Looks damn good Jack (mush better than 99% of us can do I am sure). When you get good, you gotta do some silver flames with a skull on my hood!!!!

Well Jack is a big giant *****, I dont see why this wouldnt be a good idea. Let everyone know that a big ***** is driving up behind them.

Thanks ASS.

lol