Like the tattoo artist's wall of art, an artist's airbrush gallery is the most important sales tool he or she has to work with. Learning to generate a wide variety of styles and motifs is one of the qualities that can separate the successful airbrush artist from the hobbyist. Learning technique is the best way to start, but building a repertoire of airbrush designs requires learning individualized skills, one design at a time.

Most seasoned airbrush artists learn each style individually in order to slowly build their galleries. There are instructional books and DVDs that teach the specifics of every popular airbrush style. For instance, Javier Soto has an entire DVD devoted to designing not just clowns, but "Killer Klowns." Naturally, having an airbrush gallery with a variety of ghosts, clowns, skulls, flames, and chrome designs is the best way to catch a potential client's eye.

Flames Are an Essential Part of Any Airbrush Gallery
Unless they are touch-up artists for a popular magazine (a high-profile airbrush career), most commercial airbrush artists need to learn how to design flames. Entire companies build their reputations on how well they reproduce flames; Hot Hues, for example, is a company that specializes in flame-based finishes for custom hogs and whips. Flames are the most popular design for cars, and most other airbrush vehicle art will involve flames in some way. There are as many different ways to draw fire as there are styles of airbrush. From incandescence to flaming skulls, a smart artist will want to learn to draw fire right away.

Most artists put their airbrush galleries online. This is a media-friendly way to increase the number of people who can see an artist's body of work. Increasing one's customer base is largely a matter of showing art to as many people as possible. If the artist has a unique and well-polished style, many potential customers will spot an artist's "can't-miss" design online and decide they just have to have it.