A lil inspiration for us all

payaso · Post by **payaso** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:58 pm

http://www.sebairbrush.com/

seb wrote:I've been painting for just over 12 months now. Never drew for fun or anything before. My art teacher told me I sucked and I wasn't alowed to use the only airbrush the class had. That was for the special kids with tallent only.

If I meet him again I'll boot him in the junk so hard and then show him my Computer Sciense Degree and that's about it. And I got a really good kick, I grew up playing soccer on in the streets of Europe.

Some of the best work I've ever seen, and the fact that he's only been doing it for a year is just sick.

Makes me want to practice more...lol

silla

Finks · Post by **Finks** » Mon May 09, 2005 1:23 pm

OK, great ability.... but I personally really don't like his style. Also such cool paint and then gay looking sticker headlights/grill.... still good to see that he was able to get to that point in a year.

PimpIke · Post by **PimpIke** » Mon May 09, 2005 5:50 pm

def not the nicest i've seen, but nice at that (cos i can't paint for shit). not feelin his style either.

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Mon May 09, 2005 6:58 pm

i really like his flame work, i'd love to know how you do an effect like that.

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Mon May 09, 2005 7:53 pm

betty.k wrote:i really like his flame work, i'd love to know how you do an effect like that.

I saw a guy on "Overhaulin" do flames in a similar style. They almost looked photorealistic. He did them totally freehand, no masking.

edit:

here it is

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:04 pm

SuperFly wrote:
betty.k wrote:i really like his flame work, i'd love to know how you do an effect like that.
I saw a guy on "Overhaulin" do flames in a similar style. They almost looked photorealistic. He did them totally freehand, no masking.

edit:

here it is

Yeah man, that is the shit that kills me. I wish I could do something like that.

I've seen several paint jobs with that kind of realistic effect, and I think a big part of the effect is the way the colored over coat softens everything up. They'll do it in like whites and blacks, and then addsome reds, and other shading colors, then over coat the whole thing in like a candy red and it just blendsall the colors together.

sessiz · Post by **sessiz** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:45 pm

Who was that cat that did the overhaulin job?

Seems like the realistic flames are hot (pun intended) even seen some locals with them. (a helmet and on a bike)
I'm definatly a fan.

here's a 1/18th diecast done up.

http://www.trueflames.com/

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:18 am

sessiz wrote:Who was that cat that did the overhaulin job?

Seems like the realistic flames are hot (pun intended) even seen some locals with them. (a helmet and on a bike)
I'm definatly a fan.

here's a 1/18th diecast done up.

http://www.trueflames.com/

Here's the link to the gallery for the whole episode:

http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/overh ... photo.html

I saw him in action, and he was just doing this really loose hand motion, almost like a classical music conductor with a stick.

sessiz · Post by **sessiz** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:30 am

Yeah I saw that ep too. I found his webpage afterwards and could swear I saw him on another show talkin about how he was the originator of the "realistic flames" style. Wish I could remember his name though.

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:39 am

sessiz wrote:Yeah I saw that ep too. I found his webpage afterwards and could swear I saw him on another show talkin about how he was the originator of the "realistic flames" style. Wish I could remember his name though.

KillerPaint by Mike Lavallee

sessiz · Post by **sessiz** » Tue May 10, 2005 12:53 am

Attaboy superfly, gonna bookmark it this time. Thanks.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue May 10, 2005 9:25 am

SuperFly wrote:I saw him in action, and he was just doing this really loose hand motion, almost like a classical music conductor with a stick.

I think that is a big part of the key. Forces of nature are like random patterns, with certained controlled aspects.

At least all the really good guys seem to see it as just that simple. So I'm trying to get in that mind set.

Man, this is all making me really want an airbrush, bad. No way I could ever do anything like that with rattle cans.