This book includes dozens of airbrush illustrations - plus 22 setp-by-step demonstrations of all the basic level airbrush techniques that you can use to create a wide variety of effects when doing a commercial illustration or airbrushing a T-shirt. You'll learn to create popular airbrush images such as fancy lettering, fantasy figures, vehicles, beach scenes and dramatic sunrises.

You'll learn everything to get you started in airbrush, including:

• What equipment you need to get started
• How to airbrush without mask or stencils
• Mastering the technique for gradating colors
• Masking techniques and materials, and their uses
• How to create edge effects
• The broad range of techniques available to render any texture imaginable
• becoming skilled at putting sparkle and polish into your illustrations
• special secrets to making your metallic effects look real
• How airbrush lets you produce a variety of lettering styles, including script, bubble, metallic and neon
• Handtinting and retouching photographs