I’ve been fooling around with my airbrush lately, and I recently borrowed an awesome book of American pin-up art from Ericka. Coincidentally, I stumbled upon a great airbrushed pin-up tutorial. It’s from 3 years ago, but that hardly matters. John P. Thompson, in his wonderful example, transports Bettie Page to the WWII era. He goes through the painting step-by-step, and provides detailed explanations of his equipment, techniques and reasoning.
The process images and explanations should be fascinating to anyone starting out with the airbrush. The advanced state of his underpainting was a relief- I subconsciously felt that such involved prep work is somehow “cheating”. It’s not, of course, and it’s great to discover enlightening tutorials such as this.