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Needle-chuck Ninja
Anyone use one airbrushing?
If you're not familiar, oil painters use extremely long handled brushes and to steady their hand, they use a stick that is usually held horizontally to rest their hand for fine control.
After doing hours of lines on graph paper, I grabbed my stick and immediately was doing perfectly straight lines without the slightest waver. I proceeded to try different things, a triangular machinist ruler, normal ruler, steel rod, small dowels. All offer precise control and work better than a brush since you can slide the airbrush along by resting the nozzle cap area before the body.
At first I thought I was cheating. But then I thought 'hang on, its just a tool'. Instead of spending weeks trying to get (as the Russian airbrush woman says) my weak and trembling arm to do them, why not just go ahead and paint? I still need the trigger control. Its still me painting.
Thoughts?
If you're not familiar, oil painters use extremely long handled brushes and to steady their hand, they use a stick that is usually held horizontally to rest their hand for fine control.
After doing hours of lines on graph paper, I grabbed my stick and immediately was doing perfectly straight lines without the slightest waver. I proceeded to try different things, a triangular machinist ruler, normal ruler, steel rod, small dowels. All offer precise control and work better than a brush since you can slide the airbrush along by resting the nozzle cap area before the body.
At first I thought I was cheating. But then I thought 'hang on, its just a tool'. Instead of spending weeks trying to get (as the Russian airbrush woman says) my weak and trembling arm to do them, why not just go ahead and paint? I still need the trigger control. Its still me painting.
Thoughts?
