Jerry LoFaro is an award winning illustrator whose client list includes; Random House, Harcourt, Ballantine, Avon, Bantom, Time Life, Viking Pengiun, Celestial Greetings, Coca Cola, Bacardi, Aflac,, Levi’s, Disney, National Geographic, Nike, Panasonic, Kellogs, IBM and many more.
In this information-rich presentation, world-class artist Jerry LoFaro renders a professional illustration in Adobe® Photoshop® from start to finish sharing some of his top pro tricks along the way. According to LoFaro, “Photoshop® is such an intuitive program, it effectively mimics the way I used to work as an airbrush and acrylic painter. It also enables me to eliminate many tedious steps in the creation of an illustration”
In this DVD, you’ll learn: Working with internet photo references, Mouse versus Wacom tablet pen, Quick Command keys, Transform tool, including Distort & Warp, How to resize an image, How to work with layers, How to make color adjustments, The Lasso tool, Use of the “F” button, How to combine layers, How to render fur texture digitally, How to make your own custom brush, Use of a variety of digital brushes, Feather selection, How to use the Color Dropper, How to use the Color Picker.
Also included are instructions for; Use of the History box, Smudge, Blur, & Sharpen tool, Burn, Dodge, & De-saturate tools, How to duplicate layers, How to inverse a selection, How to render shadows & highlights, How to use the Erase tool, How to adjust opacity, Use of shape brush dynamics, How to merge layers, How to scale an image in proportion, How to use the Gradient tool, Brightness/Contrast function, Hue/Saturation adjusting, How to build a reference library, Use of the Marquee tool, How to achieve color balance, Median filter for blending/smoothing, Gaussian and Motion Blur filters, How to use the Crop tool, How to create an aurora effect, How to use the Clone tool, How to use the Liquify filter, and more!
“What I teach in this presentation took me literally more than 20 years of trial and error,” explained Jenson. “I’m happy to share my professional tips and tricks, and spare you years of frustration sorting the maze of choices. After watching, you should be able to achieve gratifying results in accelerated fashion.”
With an overwhelming variety of striping and lettering brushes available, the right choice for your specific application can be difficult and confusing (even for advanced artists!) In this DVD, pinstriping master Gary Jenson unlocks the mystery and confusion of striping, scrolling, and lettering brushes by demonstrating the use of each brush in the extensive Mack Brush Company line, including: Mack 10 Series Sword Striper, Mach One Striper, Mack Lite Striper, Mack Belly, Mack SLS, Mack 1010 Series Sword Striper, Xcaliber Sword Striper, Kelly Mack Sword Striper, 179 Lettering Brush, 189 Lettering Quill, 169 Lettering Quill Series, 1992 Soft Flat Stroke Series, Scrolling Script Brushes, Bobbo Super Quad, Wizard Vortex, Wizard Typhoon, Jenson Swirley Q, 444 Virus, Virus II, Alan Johnson Mini Detailer, Ron Meyers Car Show Set, Series 840 Outliner.
In this DVD, you’ll learn how to: Palette a brush, Tell if your brush is overloaded, Pull a straight and consistent line, Trim a brush, Achieve thin and thick lines, Paint great designs, End a line, Anatomy of a brush, The various synthetic and natural brush hairs, Outline flames and letters, Hold a brush, Make seamless line connections, Why the differences in hair lengths, Lettering quills and flats Block, freehand, script, and casual lettering, Pull straight Lines, Perform teardrops, scrolls, and signatures, Make a dagger stroke, Wet-on-wet blending, Anatomy of a Sword Striper, The numbering system of sword stripers, Rudder action of a brush, Clean and maintain your brushes
And more!
Body Shop Basics! is a great introduction to the world of paint and body work. Kevin Tetz breaks down professional and current techniques such as dent repair, priming, sanding, blocking, painting, and buffing, and explains the reasons behind the procedures! Body Shop Basics! also includes important information on blending basecoat colors and metallic paint application, plus many more tips and important safety information.
This is a must for every library, from the do-it-yourself to the professional; this DVD contains something for everyone.
Body Panel Replacement! demonstrates clear procedures for replacing sheet metal on your modern or vintage vehicle. This double DVD set has projects that include; full quarter panel replacement, welded partial quarter panels, leading & body solder techniques, modern panel bonding adhesives and door skin replacement.
Kevin Tetz guides you through many more tips and tricks to take the mystery out of sheet metal replacement.
Metal Prep & Rust Repair! covers much more than the title suggests! Areas covered are chemical and mechanical paint stripping, light body work and dent repair, metal finishing, rust patching, surface rust removal and preparation, proper priming techniques, as well as rust prevention products and procedures. Many time and money saving tricks used by the seasoned professional are shown along with safety precautions and recommendations, making this the perfect compliment to the other tapes in the set.
Paint Your Own Car! II is an all new fully updated version of the Paintucation original, using environmentally friendly waterborne basecoats and the latest improvements in tools and equipment. This DVD takes you step-by-step through a complete color change paint job, focusing on important techniques as well as tool supply recommendations. Areas covered in this DVD are; fillers & shaping, rust repair, tool recommendations, priming, block sanding, basecoat/clearcoat systems, proper gun handling and safety equipment.
Kevin Tetz guides you through dozens of time and money saving tips teaching you time tested methods of painting your car.
Color Sanding & Buffing! is a step-by-step instructional DVD that takes you through every type of buffing and paint repair together with detailed procedures and trade secrets revealed. Kevin Tetz guides you into areas such as reviving old paint, removing runs and buffing fore show, as well as telling you how to avoid the most common mistakes!
Xtreme Detailing! shows you how to repair and enhance your vehicles appearance! Why replace when you can easily enhance your vehicles appearance! Why replace when you can easily repair! Learn how to do it yourself! This detailed instructional DVD covers; repair chips & scratches, replace a sagging headliner (roof lining) refurbish faded headlamp lenses, leather seat repair, carpet repair & re-dye, glass polish & repair, buff metallic & clear coat oxidation, repair stainless steel& aluminum trim, proper car wash techniques.
Follow Kevin Tetz as he guides you through these and many more tricks, tips and techniques used by the professionals to make the most of your vehicles appearance.
How to use Plotters & Vectorize Images
Alan Pastrana
In this DVD presentation, world-class custom painter Alan Pastrana demonstrates how plotters can increase your productivity by as much as 70% or better! Unlocking the “mystery” of how plotters work, Pastrana shares his secrets for eliminating hours of tedious cutting with a knife and exponentially reducing time painting. Learn how to produce the most intricate adhesive-backed and plastic-based stencils on demand—and to your desired size and scale—through the step-by-step of the vectorization and output of a 45-caliber pistol. Today’s artist can’t afford not to use a plotter. How to Use Plotters & Vectorize Images is perfect for all airbrush applications, including automotive, T-shirt airbrushing, hobby, fine art, body painting, and many more.
You’ll learn: How to acquire photo references, How to turn down the transparency of an image. How to trace your photo digitally, How to lock your design, Keyboard shortcuts, How to use fill boxes, How to use the stroke box, How to use the pen tool, How to work with fonts, The tool palette, Vector points or nodes, How to control line thickness in your vector design, How to zoom in and out, How to undo steps, How to use the Path Finder tool, How to merge patterns, How to use Smart Guides, How to prepare a vectored image for plotting, How to rotate an image, How to create fonts, How to setup and output multiple jobs, How to work with type, The Roland GX-24 plotter, How to load the plotter with material, How to adjust the pinch rollers of a plotter, The GX-24’s menu commands, How to adjust the down-force of the blade, How to adjust the blade speed, How to adjust the offset of the blade, How to set the origin of the blade, How to run a test cut, How to set up for cutting multiple files/images, How to weed your vinyl
Alan Pastrana has been airbrushing for over fifteen years, and is lead artist and owner of Pastrana Unlimited Airbrush Studios. He has a highly successful instructional DVD, Hip Hop Art with Alan Pastrana.
Follow Kevin Tetz as he guides you through these and many more tricks, tips and techniques used by the professionals to make the most of your vehicles appearance.
Regarded by many to be the best large scale portrait painter on automotive surfaces in the world. In fact, airbrush legend Terry Hill believes Saint Clair’s style is reminiscent of Chuck Close’s earlier portrait work! Saint Clair openly, and in painstaking detail, shares his techniques and approach to rendering a photo-realistic portrait with astonishing results. This is truly a groundbreaking instruction for intermediate to professional artists who wish to take their work to the next level or way beyond.
This presentation includes: How to use an opaque projector for perfect scale, size and accuracy, How to render skin tones and all facial features, How to build and create texture in an image, Airbrush techniques, Highlights and shadows, How to pay attention to the “grain” of the skin, How to tone down or remove too much texture, How to emphasize your focal point, How to create depth and dimension to your portraits, How to mix and reduce your colors, How to pay close attention to important details, How to paint blurred and sharply focused objects, How to adjust the tension of your airbrush’s trigger, How to paint mid tones, Shapes of highlights, How to perform “wash-outs” to remove too strong contrasts between darks and lights, Safety issues.
About Cory Saint Clair; California-based artist Cory Saint Clair is among the world’s elite custom painters. Airbrushing for more than 20 years, Saint Clair is most noted for his amazing large-scale photo-realistic portraits on automotive surfaces. Past and present clients include the Budweiser Puffy Tour, Prince, Destiny’s Child, TLC, and many more. Cory’s work has been the featured in many national and international magazines (Airbrush Action, Truckin, Import Tuner, Super Street Bike, Rides, Lexani Lifestyle, and others), and his work is showcased regularly at the prestigious annual SEMA Show in Las Vegas.
You have only one shot at doing a portrait tattoo right! There’s no room for error, and it’s the most difficult tattoo to execute. Here’s an exclusive and rare opportunity to learn from black-and-gray tattoo portrait master Franco Vescovi in a three-hour comprehensive step-by-step DVD presentation.
You’ll learn: Knowing when you’re ready to tattoo a portrait, The importance of rendering only what you see, How to render glass, wood, flesh tones,reflections, fabric, hair, wrinkles, contrast and shadows, How to achieve personality in your portraits, How to make a perfect stencil of your subject, How to choose and work with photo references, Bugpins versus Regular #12s, Working with a rotary machine, Breathing techniques to pull better lines in a portrait, Detailing with an outliner machine, How to mix colors and gradients, The virtue of patience, How not to overwork the skin, The correct way to work with white, The importance of touching up portraits, The fallacies of white, Mistakes to avoid with white, Texturing technique, Your responsibility to your customer, and much more!
Franco Vescovi has been tattoing for 17 years, and is one of the top tattoo portrait artists in the world. His shop, Orange County Inkhouse, Lake Forest, California, has become somewhat of a tattoo mecca to the stars. Vescovi’s client list includes Dennis Rodman, Travis Barker, Fieldy, David Wells, Tony Gonzales, Mickey Avalon. Michael Goddard, and many others.
Launched in 1985, Airbrush Action magazine is the most successful and longest running airbrush publication in history. And now, for the first time, you can own, explore, and enjoy every back issue up to 2008. This fabulous collection includes hundreds of top pro techniques, artist features (including Olivia, H.R. Giger, Don Eddy, Sorayama, Mark Fredrickson, Craig Fraser, Michael Cacy, Terry Hill, Don Ahswood, Szeto, Martin Mull, Billy Dee Williams, Alberto Ponno, Stanislaw Fernandes, Jerry Lofaro, Vargas, and the list goes on!), equipment buyers guides, Vargas and Annual Airbrush Excellence Competition winner editions, tips, tricks, and much, much more of the past 24 years.
An awesome resource and “worth it’s weight in Gold!” Works on both PC and MAC platforms, ADOBE reader is required to view the magazines, this is available as a free download from Adobe
Kustom automotive paint master Terry “Kiwi” Stephens conducts a comprehensive how-to clinic on rendering tribal, metal, and various textural effects on five projects using Auto-Air colors. This presentation is geared toward beginning to advanced artists seeking to add more dimension, depth, and believability in their artwork.
You’ll learn: How light and shadow work, How to work with fine-line tape, How to reduce paint, How to work with Auto-Air paint, How to work with transfer tape, How to transfer a design, Masking techniques, 3D effects, How to remove masking, How to render beaten steel, chrome, and rivets, How to use Pocket Grafix, Sophisticated masking techniques, How to achieve embossing and engraving effects, Use of various erasers, Advanced erasing techniques, How to render an engraved effect, How to achieve a metallic effect, Creating highlights on metal with a razor knife, The “Poor Man’s” plotter method and Drop Shadows.
About the Artist: Terry ‘Kiwi’ Stephens started airbrushing at the age of 16 as a hobby, painted professionally in his native New Zealand for a couple of years, and came to the U.S. in 1999 (“the hub of airbrushing and all things custom”) to work for Huntington Beach Bodyworks. Stephens is also a hired gun helping other shops and artists with their projects. Most recently, Terry is working on a series of paintings for future availability in print, and enjoys teaching as a new instructor for the esteemed Airbrush Getaway workshops.
If you’re having a tough time these days generating money, why not paint your own? Charles Armstrong, one of America’s premier automotive custom painters, generously shares his advanced micro-airbrush and vinyl techniques for rendering paper currency and fire photo-realistically onto any hard surface.
This presentation includes: How to work with vinyl, How to transfer an image with Saral paper, Micro-airbrushing dynamics, Freehand-airbrush techniques, The importance of good photo references, Use of masking and fine-line tapes, How to match colors, Shadows and highlights, Use of Urethanes, use of color shift colors, How to mix colors, How to reduce colors, How to render real fire, How to render a micro portrait and much more!
Rare Collector’s Item! Before Airbrush Action, Airbrush Digest magazine (1981 to 1984) was the dominant airbrush publication. Spanning 12 issues, the Digest was a coffee-table-quality bi-monthly that trail-blazed in an era when artists couldn’t get enough information on airbrushing—before the boom of instructional videos, DVD’s, books, workshops, and the internet. And now, for the first time in 25 years, every issue of Airbrush Digest magazine is available on disc. Here’s a great opportunity to search lost treasures of techniques, artist profiles, step-by-step articles and tons more.
Content includes: Artist features on Charles White III, Don Eddy, David Kimble, Roger Hyssen, Robert Anderson, Doug Johnson, Audrey Flack, Bill Mayer, Bob Boyd, Ian Greathead, Barbara Rogers, Dave Willardson, Mark Rush, Louis Grubb, Fredric Harwin, William Wilhelmi, Jeff Lefever, Peter Green, and others. And great technical information, such as how to replace the needle bearing on an airbrush, how to paint model ships, tanks, planes, and trains, pro illustration tricks with Michael Cacy, Paasche AB maintenance and repair, Light Sources and Color Retouching, color theory, airbrushing with acrylic paints and how they work, cartography, automotive art, killer pottery art, frisketing techniques, working with dyes and bleach, airbrushing onto glass, airbrush repair and maintenance, ceramic stencils, medical illustration, how to fix airbrush head leaks, how to render a variety of textures (brick, metal, sky, leather, chrome, glass, fabric, tires) chemical retouching, airbrushing fabric, how to draw, planetarium art, model weathering techniques, and more!
Works on both PC and MAC platforms, ADOBE reader is required to view the magazines, this is available as a free download from Adobe
Top Pro Spray gun handling methods revealed by Kevin Tetz.
In this comprehensive DVD presentation with Kevin TetZ you’ll learn; about the complete line of Anest Iwata spray guns, spray gun handling techniques, hand positions, waterborne drying system, the best gun distance from the surface, how to maintain consistency in spraying , spray gun practice techniques, how to check your settings, health and safety issues, proper compressor settings, how to achieve various spray patters, how to analyse spray patterns, common mistakes to avoid, how to prevent runs, mistakes to avoid, desirable spray patterns, overlapping, air control, proper positioning when spraying, the order in which to paint car panels (leapfrogging), how spray guns work, anatomy of a spray gun, the three stages of atomization, spray gun patters, how to assemble and disassemble your spray gun, how to use cleaning kits and lots more!
Kevin is a certified member of ICAR (International Centre for Automotive Research) and ASE (National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence); Kevin appears on Spike Network’s Trucks TV.
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