More 'Street' Airbrushing

Another day, another fire spinning event at a friend's home! Managed to whip out a few nice, and very fast (trying to improve speed) designs.

Airbrushing of a 'full sleeve', fastest piece of this size (and in pretty poor light conditions!). Thanks to Chris for allowing me to freestyle, and quickly. Block coverage worked out really well, just need to pay closer attention to keep the lines sharp on the detail pieces when moving at speed.

After this tattoo, he went and had a permanent one, with cogs in the design, inspired by this. I'm chuffed!

The Birthday Girl's present!

She wanted to see some full sleeves on her arms, so here they are! Lo, I do love the people that allow me to freestyle. :)

Gold and Platinum airbrush colours!

We are gonna have so much fun with these. ;)

The Angel

Start of the 'Angel', probably shouldn't have started with a devilish little minx!

Angel - Full Shot

The clothing was always going to be more important than any make-up in this one, but both worked out well.

Angel - Detail

Things I learned from this: I'm really going to have to invest in bulk body paint, and sponging on a base coat! It'll not only shave at least an hour of this whole process, but will get rid of any skin colour. Need to base and shade with dark colours, even if using mainly whites. In future, i'll give the impression of white, without actually using too much white. Need to go for strong, bold lines, and plenty of them, no-one made a master-piece by being bland and safe! ;)

Also, need to make sure I order my supplies in plenty of time, missed out on a some important colouring here thanks to my Gold not arriving on time. :(

All in all, it turned out great! I like the cheek lining I done, and will be using it in future. Also finally done full forearms with the overlays, turned out great. :)

Model: S. Kim
Photo: V. Dobrovatov

The Demon/Succubus

How the Demon/Succubus started!

Contact lenses, ears, covering the face studs, and a fine red layer.
 

  
... followed by how it ended! (Hair still tied back so you can see) See the next pic for more exposure, and brighter colour detail.

 
Not entirely sure adding horns, or ragged wings, would make this any better (hey, we can't let WoW replace our mind-image of these demonically-delectable, if ultimately deadly creatures!), but damn, she turned out smokin' regardless! Thanks to the model for just giving me a base-line of gorgeous to start with. ;)
 

The Succubus just got sexy, or is that... creepy? I... I'm so conflicted... am I aroused, or terrified, or BOTH!? :p

The Demon/Succubus, complete!

Crawling out of a TV near you!

What I learned from this: Ears are cool, and fine vein work still serves me well!

Covering the two brand new implants on her cheek turned out all right, considering I had only little to work with (to my horror, my liquid latex had solidified! I made do with some mask rubber and some blending. See the previous pics and look at her left upper cheek to se what I mean).

Covering the whole body is not only goddamn hard, but tricky to do in any amount of reasonable time (but still, I'm getting a lot faster, this whole upper body was done in the same time as the 'Ice Queen' face and neck)! I found myself ad-libbing a bit to reduce the coverage around the arms, and went for a blended effect. All in all, saved make-up and it turned out really nice. Mottled pattern is something I whipped together, and has turned out to be my favourite stencil so far.

Thanks to Marina for sitting patiently for this one. I'm guessing by the photoshoot she wanted after she was pleased. ;)

Model: M. Filatova

Time Pressure!

Main issue: Time pressure! 

This is mainly a test of my new stencil cutter in action, "wild, overgrown" floral pattern at models request!

Trick here was to not only avoiding the brand new face implants, but also cover delicate areas around them too. It was pretty tough, and even got a few yelps of pain in the process! :(

The white was running a bit thin, next time I need to make sure its mixed very well, and applied with a bit more punch.

 

Model: M. Filatova.

The next one was Mostly freehand, with the amazing Stencil Cutter stencil on the forehead. What a result! I think i'll riff on that style on the next few freestyle tries.

Got too busy with the side stencil, white arrows, with white circles on lines on top. In my mind, I had a nicely spaced array of radial points, but I should have just left it at the arrows; I forgot my own lesson, which is less is more! Won't forget next time! 

Model : M. Bunel

The Ice Queen

Time to apply what I've learned into something seriously SFX!

Starting with her natural skin tone, getting rid of a deep tan is harder than you would think! White base followed by a very cool blue. This is how the Ice Queen started.

The Ice Queen finished!

Imagine her with White hair, white contacts and a frost crown and you are there. The masquerade ball won't know what hit them! :)

Things I learned from this experiment -

(Ice) Veining is awesome!

I built up one too many layers, and caking became an issue around the most highlighted areas, but found out the make-up I have can be applied with a brush, awesome (Lips and Veins were done this way)!

The Doilys I used were good, but the paper was prone to getting stuck on the caked make-up and pulling bits off, causing me to need to retouch all the time. Plus, a frosted pattern would be more appropriate (didnt have one at the time, but i'll see how my new stencil cutter performs!)

All in all, ready for the masquerade ball!