How To Custom Paint and Airbrush a Realistic Skull and Pinstriped Flames

In this video, Time Warp Custom Paint breaks down the process of how to airbrush a realistic-looking skull and layout classic style flames in a granite texture on a Harley Davidson gas tank.

They’ll show you ways of creating a paper stencil to register your image that will help guide you through the layering process. Painting an underlayer (underpainting), clear coating then further refining your painting erasing back highlights with a fiberglass pen or eraser making fine detail and texture easy.

Trade secrets like these have been around for many years and still used today on lowriders, Harley-Davidson motorcycles, hot rods, choppers, cafe racers, and many other custom painted projects: skateboards, vintage signs, metal flake, and panel graphics for example.

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