I am trying to find an answer that crossed my mind the other day. What else can I do with my Airbrush?
Can I make a living out of it?
Is it possible to find other uses for it besides modelling, T-shirts, Nails([%-)] - do women really needs that???)
Maybe we even can switch from spraying fine paint to painting reall aircrafts?
Or maybe we can switch to subskeen inks (Tattos)?
Well maybe we can find an Idea for the most dream-job ever that we can make money out of it!.
What do you say guys?
There are a multitude of things to do with an airbrush.
T-shirt airbrushing is big here in the U.S. and some people make great money doing it. There are others who airbrush motorcycles and cars and make very good money at that also. Some do well also with body airbrushing and tattos as you mentoned, it just depends on what the market wants.
just keep in mind chris, you have to paint the BIG…FAT…UGLY women too!! you know the ones, they got 3 chins in the back of their neck, iron there clothes in the drive way, the right and left cheek of their behind has a different area code, we talkin’ bout’ BIIIIIIIGGGGGG WOMEN!! and you know its gonna take longer with that much area to cover. good luck. later. [:D]
It would be a toss-up for me … doing Rebecca Romijn Stamos’s makeup for X-Men or painting Tiger Meet logos on fighters. Hey, if I’m gonna dream I’m gonna dream big!
I want to get started with some airbrush illustration myself, though I don’t have the area set up in my new house yet, or the brush to do it with.
I’d settle for being any kind of professional artist acutally, but it’s hard to be able to make a living from artwork. It’s not helped by the fact that I work slowly either I don’t think [;)] Maybe I’ll get an art show in a gallery one of these days. Since I can’t model here yet, I’m going to have to start drawing a lot pretty soon. I think I’m going to start a pic of a Spit9 this week.
I’ve seen the artwork on your web site (BTW the link is dead right now) and you’ve got the talent to make it work. It’s hard to get noticed, I’m sure, but hang in there and it will happen.
Mike, I’ve seen your stuff to and it’s top notch. You did hear that the Betty Boop copyright holders are going after copright ingringers, didn’t you? [:p] (that part really is true; I heard it on the news a few weeks ago)
Living in Nashville I have lots of opportunities to see talented people get left outside looking in while non-talented people get the work. Admittedly it’s mostly music around here, but the logic is the same. It isn’t fair, but it’s just the way things are. If you want it you have to fight for it because there are more people trying to get noticed than there are people doing the looking.
I only sold two of those for $50 each, I swear. [(-D]
Did you notice next to the picture I put the following:
“Artwork copyright of King Features Syndicate, Inc”
That protects me I think. [%-)]
The company you don’t want to infringe upon is Disney. They are bulldogs when it comes to their copyrights. I know a guy on the airbrush forum I go to who copied Bart Simpson on a T-shirt back when the show first came on TV and he got in trouble.
He sold two Simpson’s T-shirts to a couple who he later found out worked for FOX, the copyright holders of the show. I think they settled for him paying them something like $700 or so in fines.
That was a tough lesson to learn. Most every artist I know will not paint copyrighted materials on T-shirts as it is not worth the risk and I don’t blame them.
No, I don’t blame people for not painting copyrighted material either. It isn’t worth the risk at all. But, at the same time, I can’t blame people for protecting what is theirs either.
But mike you have to admit that kid justin does one hell of an amazing job. He really showed his colors on the Miller and MIA bikes. I was also happy to see him spraying with Iwatas[:D].
