Airbrush Illustration
エアブラシ・イラストレーション / 1970s–1980s / Technique / Illustration Styles
The golden age of commercial illustration in seamless compressed-air gradients: chrome reflections, wet gloss and idealized skin — the pre-digital byword for the perfect surface.
Seamless gradients / Chrome and reflections / Starburst highlights / Idealized smoothness
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Hajime Sorayama / Pater Sato / the inheritance into digital gradients