Thread: 1st Airbrush Helmet Going Bad

This is in the middle of my very 1st airbrush job. It is the tattoo that's on my arm. The design on my arm looks OK, but on the helmet it just don't look right.

The base paint is Black Pearl and is kinda gray lookin. Metalic Blue image and Red Pearl swirl. Plan is to try a coat of red candy to try to tone it down a little. But I would like to get it to look a little better. Maybe some shading or something, but don't have a clue of what color shading to use and where to add it. And am hoping that I might get some ideas here.

I screwed around all day getting the design on it and I hate to throw it out because I paid $29 for it at a swap meet

Hmmmm. Thanks Don. Guess you're right about bigger. I printed it out as big as I could. Plan is to add more stuff in the center now. But I think I'll make that design bigger than had planned.

Cutting that flat frisk and trying to apply it to round was a real pain. Had to cut it into pieces to make it fit right

Philip, I agree with Don. I think it will look killer when it's done. And yeah, that frisket is hard to deal with on a round surface. Looking forward to seeing a post of this one completed.

I think I am going to try some of that transfer masking. Except I am no good at freehand drawing and fear cutting into my paint. But I had better learn because it's too much of a pain doing it the way I am.

And if I really hate my finished job, I may try Don's skull helmet from his video lesson. More painting, less masking.

Thank you all for the encouragement.

I plan on adding Lee Diaz's design to the helmet "if you don't mind" with a bevel on it and am trying to get it right, on flat, before I put it on the helmet.

Never doing art I am having a hard time getting it right, but here is what I have so far. I think the pointed edges of the loop look OK. The inside top highlighted edge of the loop should have been shaded in black, not white. The edge colors and loop colors need to be swapped with the darker color on the outside edges.

Also thinking that a dark purple for the ropes and shaded on the inside curves might be a better choice of colors. Any one have any other thoughts?

Might be a long time before this helmet gets done as I have some new wheels coming in this week and some serious work to get done on the scooter so's I can get it out the door by summer.