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Summary: Making airbrush templates requires cutting out shapes from stiff paper, or purchasing pre-made stencils in various shapes. Use airbrush stencils, or use a masking fluid to preserve white highlights in a painting, with instructions from a professional artist in this free video on airbrushing.
Lars Eric Robinson graduated from Ringling School Of Art & Design where he received his BFA in Illustration in 1994. Robinson has been a National Caricaturist Network (NCN) Member...read more
"Well hey welcome. My name's Lars Erik Robinson. Today I thought we'd talk about how to make templates. There's different ways that you can do it. We also have; you can take a piece of hard paper and cut out, and cut out your template. They also sell templates now days too that you can buy that are all ready. This one I used to make these flames on here as you can tell. You could also take a reverse side, if I could find that. You could take this reverse side of that same flame and use that as part of your masking. And that helps that. On here I used some of this art masking fluid they they sell and you can paint it on here. I painted right on this strip right here that you can rub right off. And that will also help it from. So when I'm done here we're doing this, you can rub this off. As you can tell it's coming right off. So I painted that on with a brush. You see how it just comes off; it doesn't even affect your art work at all. So this is excellent for white areas that you want to keep. See how it went right up there, if you want to keep those areas that is excellent for using that small detail work. So once again if I take this template that I cut out the opposite end and put it up here I could be able to put my blue behind it, the flame. So once again you can buy templates that are all ready. They have flame ones that are all ready made like this, small ones, bigger ones they can use on cars. You can make your own with the art masking fluid. Or you can actually just cut it out or some harder paper or even any harder material that you can find. So enjoy and that, this is a great tool for being able to do art. Thank you for joining, my name is Lars Erik Robinson with Lars Arts and keep on airbrushing. Thank you."
eHow Article: Making Airbrush Templates