In the days before electronic computer colouring, Futurama Portrait ist used airbrush to tinge mock-ups of their work. While airbrushing is too tedious to use in every frame of a true invigoration, it works well for colouring and blending cover art and posters. The main gain to using an airbrush rather than orthodox paints is the timber of blending that the creative person can accomplish. An airbrush can create even, uniform gradients of distort that brushes cannot reproduce.
Select a play down distort from your paints and fill the reservoir of your airbrush with it. Connect the hose of your airbrush to a canister shot of compressed air. Point the airbrush at the posting room and wedge the trigger off. A fine spray of blusher should color the board. Cover the board in an even layer of background color. When destroyed, rinse the airbrush canister shot and mechanism in warm water to clean it of blusher.
Sketch your cartoon thinly on top of the downpla using a pencil. Take your time and use cite pictures if you need to for unmanageable poses. Erase lines that become too cluttered.
Lay down several layers of paper over your work rise and don a face mask to keep from inhaling rouge. Place a patch of paperboard on top of the newspaper.
Shade your cartoon. Decide on where your light is coming from. If it is an outdoor view, this will be from viewgraph. Select somewhat darker shades of your base colors and spray the side of each character and object in your cartoon that is farthest from the get off seed with your airbrush. Use get off, short-circuit squirts at first to establish up layers of darkness until you accomplish the set up you wish. Clean the airbrush whenever you change colors.
Edge around the outlines of your adumbrate with masking piece tape. This will prevent your airbrush from coloring outside the lines when you start to fill in your sketch with paint.
Paint the flat colours of your . The flat colors are the staple colours of your image, neither too dark nor too dismount. To do this, pick out your first paint tinge and fill the airbrush reservoir with it. Aim the airbrush at the outline you wish to colour and force the spark off. When you need to transfer colours, strip the airbrush in the sink and fill it with new blusher.
Select lighter versions of your flat colors. These will serve as the highlights in your see. Go along the edges of each physical object and character in your cartoon that is nighest to your unhorse germ. Clean your airbrush every time you transfer colors.