I decided to try to give Id a face up by airbrush, since I wasn't happy with his old one. But I'm not yet good enough at telling where I'm spraying so it was going everywhere. However, I discovered yesterday with Kael that an airbrushed layer makes blushing with pastels a lot easier because it gives it extra tooth. So I got out my liquitex matte medium and put that in the airbrush and used that to do Id's first layer of sealant. It gave the head such a nice degree of tooth that I was able to do the entire face up in one layer. Didn't seal again until I was all done.
The only drawback was that it was a bit too toothy for making eyebrow lines. Wouldn't be a problem if I was better at using paint for eyebrows, but since I use colored pencils it was a bit challenging. Perhaps next time I'll thin down the liquitex a bit.
Anyway, new faceup is less obnoxious than the last one was. I'm having enough difficulty adapting to doing more subtle face ups (that don't include really dark bags under the eyes or eyeshadow, etc) but it's even harder to adapt to doing children.
The nice thing about using the airbrush for this is that it doesn't smell awful like spray sealants and like two drops of liquitex matte medium will cover a whole head. (Id has a small head but I went over it like three times with those two drops)
Anyway... onward to pictures!
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