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So, I've been practicing a little more, and I discovered something that really grinds my gears tonight...
But first, a small piece. Yea, yea, it's chicken scratch, but it's getting better.
Anyway... So when I first tried to learn airbrushing a couple years ago, I went the cheap route and wasted a whole bunch of money. I started with a $20 Chinese Veda gravity feed airbrush and standard createx paints. Well, after having no success (wish I had known those paints weren't good for beginners xD), I decided it wasn't for me so I put it all up.
Now I've done more research, spent the money, bought a decent beginner setup, and I've started moving forward. However, what I discovered tonight, is that I'm STILL wasting my money. My setup is the Iwata Eclipse bottom feed with a sparmax airstream compressor (supposed to shoot 30-40 psi working, but really only gets about 15-20) and every time I start to do 'the eye' tutorial, it devolves into sheets and sheets of daggers and lines because my brush is completely unpredictable. Yes, I can get fine lines, but sometimes the paint starts at position 2, sometimes it won't flow till position 4 or 5, and sometimes it just spits at me and tells me to quit. It does this right after I clean the brush too. I'm pretty sure the answer is higher psi because it is a siphon feed, but that will have to wait as the compressor I'm using now is about the limit of what my living arrangements can tolerate in terms of sound, space, and budget.
The main point in all this garb is that I got my old gravity fed cheapo out again tonight... I put a few drops of comart in it and it instantly had more control and predictability than my eclipse. Ex: I can pull it back to the .5 position and still get a nice line. it's still a cheapo after all so it's got its problems, but in general, I could have stuck with it as my first brush and learned long ago.
If I'm correct in my assumptions, I believe I'll buy a couple of gravity fed Neos for color changes and put my eclipse up until I can get a better 'presser. Anyone care to comment?
But first, a small piece. Yea, yea, it's chicken scratch, but it's getting better.
Anyway... So when I first tried to learn airbrushing a couple years ago, I went the cheap route and wasted a whole bunch of money. I started with a $20 Chinese Veda gravity feed airbrush and standard createx paints. Well, after having no success (wish I had known those paints weren't good for beginners xD), I decided it wasn't for me so I put it all up.
Now I've done more research, spent the money, bought a decent beginner setup, and I've started moving forward. However, what I discovered tonight, is that I'm STILL wasting my money. My setup is the Iwata Eclipse bottom feed with a sparmax airstream compressor (supposed to shoot 30-40 psi working, but really only gets about 15-20) and every time I start to do 'the eye' tutorial, it devolves into sheets and sheets of daggers and lines because my brush is completely unpredictable. Yes, I can get fine lines, but sometimes the paint starts at position 2, sometimes it won't flow till position 4 or 5, and sometimes it just spits at me and tells me to quit. It does this right after I clean the brush too. I'm pretty sure the answer is higher psi because it is a siphon feed, but that will have to wait as the compressor I'm using now is about the limit of what my living arrangements can tolerate in terms of sound, space, and budget.
The main point in all this garb is that I got my old gravity fed cheapo out again tonight... I put a few drops of comart in it and it instantly had more control and predictability than my eclipse. Ex: I can pull it back to the .5 position and still get a nice line. it's still a cheapo after all so it's got its problems, but in general, I could have stuck with it as my first brush and learned long ago.
If I'm correct in my assumptions, I believe I'll buy a couple of gravity fed Neos for color changes and put my eclipse up until I can get a better 'presser. Anyone care to comment?
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