How to Airbrush for a Chrome Look
- 1). Draw the object you want to render on masking film, then cut it out with a craft knife to create a stencil.
- 2). Position the stencil on your surface.
- 3). Mix a medium gray in the color cup of your airbrush and test the color on a piece of scrap paper. Lightly shade the object as you would any other nonreflective surface, adding small amounts of black or dark grey paint into the color cup as you go to create darker shades of color.
- 4). Locate the area or areas on the object that would have the strongest lighting. Using a dark grey or black color, paint a line next to this point. Keep the airbrush close to the surface to control the flow or use a stencil. This makes the area next to the dark line appear to be very bright and shiny in comparison, like chrome.
- 5). Create a gradient moving away from the dark line to make the line look more natural.
- 6). Lightly shade areas around the highlight in gray or add other colors. Blue is a good color for chrome, as it suggests the coolness of metal or metal reflecting the sky.
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