Airbrush Step by Step | No. 75
This issue is all about pretty girls – whether portrayed full-face or full-body, covered up to the nose or stark naked. Five artists show female beauty with different focuses, techniques and settings: Carlos Cartagena plays with light reflections in his cover artwork “AI Girl” to give his AI-generated portrait a special, artificial high-gloss look. In the interview, the illustrator also talks about how he not only made it into illustrated books and airbrush magazines with his pin-ups, but also into Playboy and the Hooters Casino Hotel in Las Vegas in the mid-1990s.
In Mitya Ka's nude, delicate skin tones and soft body shapes meet cold colors and hard geometric shapes in the background. Geza Nagy's Fire Girl fascinates with its very special mood and color scheme, created by the candle as the only source of light in her hands. In the work of Canadian illustrator Dennis Mott, only the eyes of the Asian protagonist can be seen. However, these express an extreme will to win that captivates the viewer of the portrait. The Norwegian Geir Nordaunet mainly focuses on the accessories of his main character - on the medium of water, on the sky and flowing fabrics, whose gentle shades he highlights with transparent airbrush colors and contrasts sharply with colored pencils.
Finally, you will meet a real, strong girl: Ellen Olson, who was born in Ukraine, has now successfully established herself as a custom painter and airbrush teacher in Poland and allows some insights into her work.
In the news, find out about some highlight events and products coming up in these days. As always, we hope you’ll enjoy this brand-new issue. Have a creative spring time!
The ASBS Team
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Airbrush Step by Step No. 75.