QUOTE: Originally posted by styrene
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. |
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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
| QUOTE: Ever seen the Vargas girl in Playboy? Airbrushed. |
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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.
| QUOTE: 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. |
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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
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not
to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools
for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know
how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon