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Airbrush Free Hand Shields
Introduction to airbrush free hand templates by Don Johnson

Airbrush Free Hand Shields
by Don Johnson
This article covering airbrush free hand templates (or airbrush free hand shields) was put together in hopes it will enable you to get more out of the airbrush how to articles you read in our airbrush magazines, Airbrush Technique and Airbrush Artist Magazine.
Airbrush free hand templates are shapes laser cut into a plastic like material and come in hundreds of shapes and sizes. Becoming proficient in the use of airbrush free hand templates can release you from the drudgery of having to use hard masking materials like transfer tape, masking tape and Frisket film. Combining airbrush free hand templates with hard masking materials like the three mentioned can and does provide for endless possibilities in creating your airbrush artwork.
If you are using solvent based paints be sure to purchase airbrush templates that are solvent proof.


Using airbrush free hand templates takes practice just as you put in when learning dagger strokes, dots and lines. Keeping the free hand template tight to the painting surface will produce a very tight out line as pictured above.



After locating a spot in your painting you want to accent, further define it’s just a matter of finding a shape in your collection of airbrush free hand templates that will work.



Here an airbrush free hand template is used to add an eyeball to our skull and than to add a nice hard white highlight to that eye ball.

Here I used the biggest part of the 360 template to create the center of the flower.


To create the flower peddles I moved to a smaller part of the 360 template.


Now to add some texture to the center of our flower I move to one of the smallest parts of the Artool 360 template.

To help define our flower peddles another section of the Artool template is used as pictured above.

Now to add a white high light to our pedals an opposite shape of the peddle is used on the Artool 360 template.

And here you have the completed flower airbrushed using only the Artool 360 airbrush free hand template. I hope this simple example will spur you onto seeing what you can create with the airbrush free hand templates you have on hand. Time spent doing simple exercises like this will pay huge dividends when airbrushing that next master piece I know you will be turning out soon.
Please check out the other web site where I publish free airbrush, custom painting lessons and articles:
howtoairbrush.com , howtocustompaint.com and my airbrush work shop
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