Basic Airbrushing Drills

Video Transcript

"So let's take the next step which is give you some basic drills to where you can start actually learning how to use the gun. You've played with it, you've fooled around, you've drawed your dots, "drawed", look at the English I have, you've "drawn" your dots and your squiggly lines and your circles. Now let's put it into a practice that you're going to use to actually learn how to physically use this tool. I'm here to teach you how to airbrush, I can't teach you to be a better artist, that's up to you. Take some pencil drawing classes, because anything you use with the airbrush, you can do it with a pencil, you can do it with a marker, you can do it with crayons, you can do it with mud, do it with an airbrush too. Let's start off, I showed you how to make the dots, now you could take a marker, or you could take your airbrush, I prefer you to take your airbrush because it teaches you more control, just start drawing some dots equally apart, the same size. Remember that game you used to play in school where you drew the dots all over the page and then you tried to, each person drew a line until you drew a square? Basically it's the same thing you're going to do here, just connect the dots! Make you a line, connect your dots, go anywhere you want to go, and what that teaches you is the hand-eye control. Next thing you want to learn how to do is just, this will help you with your lettering and stuff, is you want to do what we call "curly Q's". And you want to keep them the same size. You don't want to be doing...you want to keep them consistent. That's not good practice, this is good practice right here. The next thing you want to do, you want to try to draw straight lines. And these are the exercises that I pretty much recommend. If you do this, you'll get good, and you'll get good quick!"