Someone else posted this picture in the thread on the ‘Aircraft’ forum entitled “What’s in a name” and I though it would be an awesome picture to airbrush on a T-shirt. [8D][8D]
Mike
Or a leather bomber jacket! [8D]
WOW!!!
Woody,
That too. [8D]
Unfortunately, most people would not want to pay the price for an airbrush paint job like that, although some will.
Mike
here’s the url for the pic to see full size…
http://www.cebudanderson.com/images/mustang.jpg
If you had permission from the artist, it would be interesting to see how it would turn out on a T-Shirt using CafePress. No it wouldn’t be the same as airbrushing, but might still be a cool T-Shirt.
I may try that on a sheet of pellon that we use for practice of textile airbrushing. That is if the garage doesn’t stay so cold. [:D]
Mike
That is a good looking picture, reminds me of the stuff at fireart.com
Those fireart.com pictures are nice Chris. That sure is a dangerous job you guys do, but I am thankful you men are there for us though! [tup][bow]
The movie, “Backdraft” gave me a whole new respect for the power of fire. [:0]
Mike
I ran across that image somewhere else on the web…cant remember where and saved it as wallpaper for my desktop! IT WAS JUST AWESOME the first time I saw it…still is!
Very nice!
Very nice indeed. If only I could find a way to insert an M1 somewhere in the picture.
Mike,
You do the shirt, I’ll buy it from you…
Several years ago, I took the boxtop from the Tamiya 1/32 F-14 to a T-shirt artist and had him airbrush it onto a shirt. Did a great job; got lots of positive comments. I think he only charged me about $20.
Gip Winecoff
Is it even humanly possible to airbrush something like that? I’m guessing you need to first outline the contours and mask…ect?
hou_ge2000,
Yes, it is possible. And it gets quite a bit more complicated. MikeV can probably contribute more to this professionally, but have you ever seen a poster of an exotic sports car that’s been cut away, revealing all the engine components, driveline, suspension, etc? It’s all airbrushed. Ever seen the Vargas girl in Playboy? Airbrushed. How about the Playboy ceterfolds? Photos touched up with an airbrush. Even some of the most detailed medical illustrations are airbrushed. I understand that alcoholic beverage manufacturers (e.g., Smirnoff, Chivas, etc.) spend, on average, upwards of 250K for a single page advertisement for a magazine. Much of the ad is airbrushed. I’ve also heard it rumored that because of the amount of money spent, the artists will insert some sort of subliminal art into the ad to encourage sales of their products. Pick up a couple airbrush magazines next time you’re in a hobby/craft/book store. Like me, you’ll be amazed with what can be accomplished with an airbrush. I wish I had 1/10,000 the talent of some of the folks featured in some of the articles!
DOH!! Time for the DISCLAIMER: I am NOT encouraging anyone on this forum to run out and buy a copy of Playboy Magazine, nor to consume any alcoholic beverage, on the off chance they may encounter some subliminal message…or whatever.
Gip Winecoff
The cutaway images of cars you mentioned are more masking than airbrushing and they are a LOT of work to produce. What they do is draw out the parts they want to show and then lay clear frisket film over the top of the drawing. They then take an X-acto or similar knife and cut out a piece and paint it, then cover that painted piece back up with the piece they cut away and cut out another piece and reapeat the process. It is extremely time consuming and tedious work. the best at this is David Kimble and he is paid handsomely for his work.
http://www.christophers.net/kimble.htm
Alberto Vargas is my favorite artist along with Gil Elvgren.
Vargas used an airbrush for some of the parts of his paintings, but most of the painting was done with a brush. The modern day master of this is a woman named Olivia, and she is a great pin-up painter, although she tends to get a bit too provocative in her paintings in comparison to Vargas, Elvgren, Petty and others.
That’s true Gip. Many of you have seen the military airbrushed artwork of Dru Blair correct? http://www.drublair.com/
Click on the ‘Download Images’ link at his web site and you can download a beautiful SR-71 photo that Dru painted for your computer desktop.
This guy is incredible.
Believe it or not, but this photo below was airbrushed by Dru Blair and is NOT a photograph:
He is the best photo-realist airbrush artist in the world in my opinion and is a real down-to-earth kind of guy too. He comes to the airbrush forum I go to now and then and helps people out. I wish I had 25% of his talent.
Mike
It wouldn’t be that hard really. What I do is take the picture and put it into my opaque projector and project it onto what I am painting. I then trace the reference lines I need and then go to work painting it, like I did in this Porsche photo below that I painted:
Mike
Only $20? That is real cheap if it is a good paint job.
Most textile airbrush artists charge roughly $1 per minute that they spend on a painting, but some of them are fairly fast. I would imagine the best T-shirt airbrush artists out there would charge you at least $75 for that photo on a T-shirt and probably over $100 on a leather jacket. It is time consuming and they make most of their money on fast, 2 minutes or less T-shirt designs.
Some of these T-shirt artists are making $70-80k a year too. [:D]
Mike
WOW some good looking work in here Wish I had that talent!
I’ve seen some of the artwork before, but didn’t realize it was all airbrush.
Truly magnificent!!
i am truley humbled!!!
WOW!!!
Nice Porsche Mike!!