Always appreciate feedback

I added a bunch of new pictures to my album lately- always appreciate feedback.

Dean

Maybe if I make it easier?

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Do you airbrush?

#1 - your husband is a champ. He deserves a huge "something" for letting you practice on him so much.

#2 - I think your blending can be a little cleaner. On the tiger, the orange and yellow still have a defined line. Try to blend that line together.

#3 - your airbrush lines would be more controlled with a paint brush. To be honest, they look uncontrolled. I mean that in the nicest way. Work on your thin to thick to thin lines.

#4 - you have a great imagination. All of your designs seem to be originals. You are off to an amazing start. We all have things to work on. So, keep rocking the paintings.

Question - how long have you been airbrushing? I just bought my first airbrush system and I am so excited to practice with it. Hopefully you can give me some pointers on that.

Cute designs! I love the green monster one. I'm a sponge/brush girl, but the airbrushing sure makes a nice base!

I agree with Glitterfly. I would love to try airbrushing bases & shading

I like the intensity of the colors. And the cheek extensions on the pink tiger are an excellent touch. Thanks for uploading the pics!

I'm not qualified to critique airbrush, but your husband is awesome for letting you paint him! My hubby is amazing in may ways(like back rubs & foot rubs after long gigs), but won't let me paint him ever

THANK YOU ALL.... some thoughts, answers and so on....

The things in my gallery are newest at top, oldest at bottom... about 9 month break in between where life was too busy. In my other life I was a makeup artist (Theatre not glamour) and the two tigers were the first things I had tried in about 15 years... and I never really did "face painting" per se.

I am attracted to the air brush as a tool, still trying to figure out the ins and outs. I know what you mean about things being "fuzzy" I want crisper. On the Pink Kitty, there was a combo of stencils and shileds, along with free hand.

I am finding that, a minimal number of mirror image shields actually can be combined to create sharp lines and accents- then use minor brush work. I like the effects one can get with an air brush in many respects, but then there are other things you really need to resort to hand painting for.

The last two years has been all about experimenting with products... I have probably gone through a couple hundred bottles of paints etc... as well as playing with the newer brands of face paint that were not around when I did makeup before. I find i fall back to Kryolan in terms of cake. Mehron and Ben Nye for cheap air brush.... and Graftobian is the BEST for high quality hybrid airbrush paint. Have not tried the wolf paint yet....

Just started working with EBA ink for temporary tattoo type paints.... Still playing so the jury is out on those. Only really cost effective in big bottles.

I have been air brush painting for about 5 years. On and off... And started using it for makeup about 2 years ago or there abouts.

Thank you everyone for your feedback.... I'll post more things as I get more done.

Oh, and Yes, My Husband is very patient- though I do sometimes have to remind him how patient I have been with HIM for the last 6 years.

Here's tonight's efforts

Great job. Airbrush control has improved 1000%.

I would say! Creative design too - love the crosshatching.

great job!

glitterfly wrote:Great job. Airbrush control has improved 1000%.

WOO HOO A Thousand Percent in two days!

I'm figuring it out and finding my way..... Will share what I can.

Please do share your secrets. I cannot control my lines for the life of me. I have an Avatar body painting and I was going to airbrush the stripes. They are over the place with no control at all. Did you just learn this by practicing or is there some magical secret?

Everything on the newest pic is from a single shield that I cut... Oh, and some netting for the scales.

So, I made a shield that has the basic eye brow shape.

Once the foundation was down, I darkened it a bit in the areas I knew would be shaded.

Then, used the shield to get the edge on the higlights.

Then used the netting and a light mist for the scale effect.

Then used the same shape for highlights on the corner of eyes and Nasaloblial folds.

Then went back and used the mirror image of the first shield, placed over the highlights, and did the shadows.

Free handed the spots.

Freehanded a big of shadow onto the highlights to tone them down a bit.

Oh, grabbed a handy index card to to the shading on the edge of the nose.

WHole thing took about 3 minutes not counting color changes. I didn;t want to clean 3 brushes, so I just used one and kept changing colors which takes a couple minues to clean and blow it out.

Was having a DEVIL of a time with clogging though. I have found that Ben Nye liquid, which I LOVE for freehand brush and lines work, gets this peculiar gooey clumpy thing going on. But, wasn't going to use the expensive Graftobian for play / practice.

I am going to play around with Mehron and Kryolan liquid a bit more... see if they do the same thing.