MySpace Featured Artist - Michael Calandra
Heavy Metal artist Michael Calandra is our current MySpace featured artist. Michael is a prolific airbrush artist and illustrator and he is also very generous with his Work in Progress articles which he routinely posts on his MySpace blog. Michael has given us permission to post one such article right here on Airbrush Tour.
“This is step one of my new painting featuring model Julie Kim (she’s in my top 40). It is just drawn out at this stage.”
“This is step two. Here I have worked with airbrush into the face and upper body. You can see how the airbrush layers color to model the skin. If you play lights and darks with colors, you can get a photographic effect.”
You can see I have worked into her body with the airbrush.
I had to mask off the whole lower body with a frisket, then cut out only the clothing.
I sprayed the clothing and replaced the pieces of frisket.
Then, I cut out the tattoos and airbrushed that area.
After I removed all the frisket, I worked at modeling her body and skin tone.
The crystal ball was masked off and slowly colored. Highlights were erased with an electric eraser.”
“Here is the next step. I have added background colors and smoke. Then I masked off the lanterns to airbrush them.
I added details to her wings, clothing, and body art.
She is getting close to being finished, but I am still working out background details.”
“Here you go folks. New art just completed! Thanks to my wonderful model Julie Kim! ”
To learn more about Michael Clandra and his art, visit him online at MySpace.com/Michael Calandra.
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All images in this post are copyright © 2007 Michael Calandra. Used by permission.
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November 14th, 2007 14:59
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