Airbrush - step by step
 

1) Find some silly damn thing in a your sketch book
http://www.mightywombat.com/etc/pp1.jpg

2) Draw it again. Run a knife along all the black lines. Glue the whole mess to a shirt without losing any of the pieces. This is called a mask
http://www.mightywombat.com/etc/pp2.jpg

3) Lift one piece of the mask off the shirt. Paint the exposed area. And replace the piece.
http://www.mightywombat.com/etc/pp3.jpg

4) Repeat for every piece, every color. So if your mask has ten pieces, and you are using four colors, you need to repeat this process 40 times.
http://www.mightywombat.com/etc/pp4.jpghttp://www.mightywombat.com/etc/pp5.jpghttp://www.mightywombat.com/etc/pp6.jpg

5)Remove the outside of the mask. Keep the design covered.
http://www.mightywombat.com/etc/pp7.jpg

6) Paint your background. In this case, an amorphous blob of blue mist.
http://www.mightywombat.com/etc/pp8.jpg

7) Done!
http://www.mightywombat.com/etc/pp9.jpg

8) This technique can come in handy when your kid wants a shirt with something unusual on it... like "Mewtwo guarding a pig."
http://www.mightywombat.com/etc/pp10.jpg

Very Very Coool... lots of artistically inclined folks here who make this look so easy - I would have to spend a couple years getting a sketch WORTH putting on a shirt! :)

dead images?! i can't see anything/

I can see 8 images using Firefox 3.0. That's really cool. Thanks for sharing.

they just started working now. even your website was down for me. odd?

edit: cool!

It seems so straight-forward. And very cool. Thanks, Clavus.

love your work clavus.........thanks man.

This looks really great and broken down into nice simple steps makes it accessible for even more people. Wonderful idea clavus!

Wow that's freaking cool. I always wondered how airbrush artists got it to look so precise.

Thanks, all. I think there were 46 pieces to this dragon. So you can see why a lot of its parts only have two colors of paint on them. The 19 scales on his belly are three colors. So his belly is actually 57 little paint jobs.

http://www.mightywombat.com/etc/dragon2.jpg

They all look sweet, but also like too much work :)

I am astounded by your patience sir.

And that is the most hardcore fish ever.

That's an interesting technique and the results look really good.
Have you considered making 3 or 4 photocopies of your drawing (1 for each color) and just cutting out the areas you want to paint for each color on each copy. In other words just make a separate stencil for each color so you only have to lift and spray once for each color? Just a thought.

your kids must have the coolest t-shirts in school!