It's a piece I started ages ago but I've finally declared it as finished, or as Leonardo da Vinci once put it "Art is never finished, only abandoned". Here's my attempt at airbrushing Neytiri from Avatar.  I plan on doing a short behind the scenes "making of" video at some point, so watch this space :)

Download high res image: Airbrushed Neytiri from Avatar (1969px by 1702px)

I'm sure I'm just new to the party and they've been around forever but I didn't find out until recently that you can get acrylic based transparent paints for airbrushing (I previously thought you could only get transparents with solvent based paints).

So I brought a set of 10 this week, COM ART colours - Transparent Kit E. The set comes with a decent selection of colours:

• Bright Red
• Orange
• Cadmium Yellow
• Emerald Green
• Kelly Green
• Ultramarine
• Royal Blue
• Violet
• Sienna Brown
• Black

I've not tried them out yet but these should greatly help with doing subtle shading effects, especially on the Avatar piece that I'm currently working on.

Demon to some. Angel to others. To me it's a cool looking puzzle box.

This is by far the most complex airbrush masking job I've done to date.  It took an hour for my plotter just to cut the masking film. Then came the tricky job of taking those masks, which I had to do in three separate A4 sections, removing the hundreds of little parts that were to be sprayed through and finally aligning them on the board ready for airbrushing.

Thanks to zaretti.com photography for taking the digital image.

Added pictures of my newly created Watchmen XBOX 360 Faceplate. Recently bought a plotter and this is first project I got to use it on. I think it turned our pretty well.