- 1). Lay three layers of newspaper down over your workspace. Don a respirator. Connect the hose of your airbrush to a can of compressed air.
- 2). Select a dark color from your airbrush paints such as a dark brown, green or blue. Do not use black. True black tends to stand out too much and it looks unnatural if you use it for shadows. Fill the pigment cup of your airbrush with the paint. Your cub may be affixed to the top of your airbrush, or it may be a screw-on container hanging below it.
- 3). Test the airbrush on a piece of newspaper by squeezing the trigger on the top. A fine mist of paint should emerge. Hold your airbrush four inches away from your paint surface and lightly squeeze the trigger. In quick, light motions, create a pair of arcs, one of them upside down, to form an outline of your eye. Because your airbrush is a double action model, you can vary the line width of your paint by applying more or less pressure to the airbrush trigger.
- 4). Shade in around the eye with your dark color to give the illusion of shadows and make the eye look more sinister. Then flush your airbrush and pigment compartment with water to clean the paint out. You must do this every time you change paint colors, or your paint will dry inside your airbrush and gum up its mechanism.
- 5). Select a dark red paint, just slightly lighter in shade than the outline of the eye. Pour the paint into your pigment container and use your airbrush to completely fill in the eye itself.
- 6). Clean the airbrush again and select a bright orange color. Hold your airbrush over the eye and lightly press the trigger. Create a large, faint but circle of orange pigment in the middle of the eye. Repeat this, but with a smaller circle in the center of the first. The end result should be that the dark red turns to bright orange the closer you get to the center of the eye.
- 7). Clean the airbrush and fill it with bright yellow. Hold it an inch away from the eye and create a small U of bright yellow pigment in the middle of the eye, over the orange circle. It should appear quite vivid and jewel-like against the orange and red.
- 8). Clean the airbrush and allow the eye to dry for half an hour. Cover the entire eye with masking tape, save for a slit in the shape of your pupil in the center of the eye. Fill your airbrush with dark brown and spray it over the slit. Remove the masking tape.
- 9). Load your airbrush with the same dark red that you used before. Draw a light band of dark red over the top of the eye to give it the illusion of shadows.
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Clean your brush and fill it with white. Aim your brush over the top right-hand corner of the slitted pupil and tap the trigger to form a single white dot. This adds a little bit of shine to your eye. Clean your brush a final time.
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