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One of the most common
questions I have heard sense I stated helping people learn to use their
airbrush is "which airbrush with what size nozzle, needle is best for rendering
detail, fine lines".
One of most common problems I hear about from
those just starting out is "this airbrush just won't do fine lines, detail
work"
With the many different airbrush's, needle, nozzle sizes
available on the market these days its easy to understand the confusion
surrounding rending fine lines, detail.
Unfortunately there is not
magical trick I can show you to make your journey easier or shorten the length
of time it takes to learn the skills necessary to render fine lines,
detail.
I would like to encourage you to not get frustrated during your
journey, I taught myself how to airbrush which means you certainly can.
"Well how long will I have to practice before I can accomplish
rendering (painting) fine lines, detail art work?" That I know was your next
question, right? Again there is no magical trick I can show you, no pat answer
to this question the best answer I have is if you apply yourself to mastering
the basic lessons on this web site you will be looking back sooner than later
smiling knowing at one time not so long ago you thought you never would master
fine lines or detail with your airbrush.
The length of time it will
take is directly related to how you approach learning the basic lessons, apply
yourself, practice everyday and in no time you will have mastered it.
Below are four example sheets I did using four different airbrushes to drive
home a point I believe will help you master rendering fine lines, detail with
your airbrush.
Each of the airbrushes had different size needles,
nozzles most where gravity feed, one was a bottom or siphon feed but as you can
see by the size of the lines I was able to create they are very similar in size
(they where thin).
To give you some prospective I drew some loops with
a pencil on each sheet to help you realize the size of the airbrushed
lines.
The airbrushes I used just happened to be the ones connected to
my compressor at the time I did these examples. They could have very well been
a Paasche VL or Badger 150 instead; my goal was to use four different
airbrushes the model, brand was just what I had on hand at the time no more
than that.
The same paint straight out of the bottle was used in all
four airbrushes, Golden Carbon Black.
The four airbrushes I used
where:
Iwata BCS Eclipse - 0.5 mm needle, nozzle combination
Check
out the product review of this airbrush
HERE
Iwata HP-CS - .35mm needle, nozzle combination
Check out the
product review of this brush
HERE
Iwata Mircon B - .18 mm nozzle, needle combination
Check out the
product review for this airbrush
HERE
Sata
3 - 0.25 nozzle, needle combination
Check out the product review for this
airbrush
HERE.
See if you can guess which set of loops was created using which
airbrush. Did the needle and nozzle size determind my abilty to keep all the
sets of loops similar in size, thin lines? I don't believe it did, do you?
Click on the image to see a bigger view.
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As you can see it's very
hard to say which size needle, nozzle created which set of loops. These
examples illustrate the point it's not the airbrush brand, model, needle size
or nozzle size that makes rendering fine lines, detail possible. What makes
rendering fine lines, detail possible is mastering the basic's it's that
simple. If I can do it you surely can. Below are the answers to which airbrush
created which set of loops. Click on the images to see a bigger view.
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