Airbrush Painting Space Help

[TheSkrull]

I've been playing around with using a paint brush (still suck at painting faces) at a family members house and I'm getting tired of driving 30 minutes to go use it and was thinking about picking up one.

First question before everything is how much deskspace/room is needed/suggested for the painting area. I'm redoing my hobby room and wanted to figure out if it was worth putting in a little area or not for me to give it a try.

Any info would help.

[Vince-Vell]

All you need is a desk to work on. If you are doing small projects any one of those art desks you can find at cheap art stores will do.

I use a professional art desk from a ad company that closed down years ago. Just made a tent around it and added lights to it. I prob spent $15 at home depot for tubes, and then like $20 for shower curtains to close it in.

So i have my desk for sculpting and painting on, then my desk for air brushing. Space is small and works for my apartment. I just do sand work and priming at my parents garage on weekends.


here is a old pic of my set up.

[TheSkrull]

Hmmmmm.... I've got space in the basement I can use to setup something like that and it seems cheap enough to setup a little spot like that.
Thanks for the heads up VV.

I've got several kits I'm interested in giving a try, a Lion-O, Jean Grey, Superman mullet. Might give Zod a try first since he's mostly black.

Thanks again. The pictures helped a lot.

[moore_000]

Originally Posted by Vince-Vell

All you need is a desk to work on. If you are doing small projects any one of those art desks you can find at cheap art stores will do.

I use a professional art desk from a ad company that closed down years ago. Just made a tent around it and added lights to it. I prob spent $15 at home depot for tubes, and then like $20 for shower curtains to close it in.

So i have my desk for sculpting and painting on, then my desk for air brushing. Space is small and works for my apartment. I just do sand work and priming at my parents garage on weekends.


here is a old pic of my set up.

I see you too were doing a conversion off the Moore RetroBlack Cat statue.

[Vince-Vell]

Originally Posted by moore_000

I see you too were doing a conversion off the Moore RetroBlack Cat statue.

Thats a very very old custom i had for testing and experiments when i first started out. Was a free broken statue i got from a guy at my LCS. She was just used to sculpt aves onto and then i did tests of flesh tones on her with new airbrushes. I stll have her but she is my test subject!!!!