Brush vs Air

As for me,I am an odity I guess.I paint mainly with the dry ex-pearl powders on top of a good base and spray a like coat of clear every so often to keep the powders in place and to keep me from wiping them back off.I don’t airbrush small detail well and my hands are getting shaky so it is hard for me to use the brush too so I have found the powders to be my perfect medium of the moment.They blend remarkably well and the more layers you do,the deeper the color and when I go back and forth with different colors,it has a beautiful blending effect.I use mostly make-up brushes too,they are marvelous for them.Just like applying makeup.

I use both. I airbrush a base coat on my pyo’s, the basic colors I will be working with, and then the rest is hand painting with a brush.

I air brush a primer on mine and hand paint everything else >.< I don't have a good enough airbrush to even attempt any detail work with it lol. It splatters sometimes just doing a primer coat!

I have used normal brushes, airbrushes, as well as pastels (kind of like Bodine was saying, just actual artists pastels and not pearl ex. I’ve used pearl ex for details, but not a whole sculpture).

But I’m weird in that I don’t stay consistent. I don’t always airbrush. Sometimes I do the entire thing with a hand brush. But to answer the question, if I do airbrush, it’s like Koishii. Base colors then go in with a normal brush. Airbrushes just can’t get detailed unless you have the “fine” tips (least that’s how mine is).

I do both to. Usually I make a good base and then go over it with hand and work my way through blending-detail blending-detailing-and finally the toush ups before spraying sealant.

Airbrush all the way! 🙂

Paint brush for me since the beginning. I would’nt mind learning to use an air brush at some point.