What a find!!! This airbrush portrait is STUNNING!!
It's so rare to find a full length time lapse on youtube! And this one is great... I'll blather on about it at the end cause I know you just want to get to the video :)
I so happy I stumbled across this.... Normally, I watch Chris Scalf's(the artist) youtube videos for his amazing photoshop skills - you should check out his photoshop dragons - they are absolutely breathtaking.
In fact ... they are SO good, that as a BONUS CLIP I'll add one of my favorite photoshop dragons of his at the bottom - even though it is not airbrush related, it's worth showing from an artistic point of view.
And now for the BONUS FEATURE...
OK!! So let's talk about that airbrush video!!
How about I just list all the things that really impressed me!
1. He doesn't even have a sketch on that illustration board - it's 100% freehand
2. He uses a shield, what, three time?!?! And to top it off it's a ripped up piece of paper!
3. It only took him 4 hours to paint (man, I wish!)
4. He uses very very little white paint - just a few spots on the shirt to punch out the highlights
5. He mixes up his media by using prismacolor pencils at the end to add the "little extras"
6. And lastly, I am just plain old impressed - aren't you?