Step by Step Guitar

My little brother asked me to paint his guitar.

I obviously said yes.

I started with a plain black Yamaha guitar.

Gutted and ready for prep.
Sanded down with 240 grit paper until all the shiny parts are not shiny anymore.

All he said was that he liked skulls and stars.

I love having almost free reign.

I stared with this refernce to create a sketch.

Used it to cut out a stencil. I use the stencil mainly for placement, it makes life easier.
the other skull is just one I printed off of the net, no need to reinvent the wheel.

I forgot to take a picture of just the stenciled outline, oops.

Here it is stenciled and filled in loosley with the airbrush.

Using acrylic paint markers and some more airbrushing, I created this painting.

It looks funny because it has no clear on it.

Now after 6 coats of clear acrylic, it looks much better.

And it is done.

I hope he likes it.

if not, I will gladly keep it.