Ligoomba...Welcome to Garage Journal.
One of the two hottest topics on this site are "wall coverings" and "Paint". Do a search for Drywall or OSB and you'll come up with half as many replies and scenarios as there are members. Not to dissuade you, but drywall, OSB, metal, pegboard, paint and such is "The beating of the dead horse" around here.
Don't take me wrong as I'm not trying to block you from asking, but I'm trying to keep you from going crazy deciding after you get done reading all of the replies. When it's all said and done, you still won't know what to do.
If you look through the gallery, and you already know what you want your garage to look like, then you are halfway through the battle. If you get pissed and throw wrenches, put up OSB. If you are the type that throws wrenches and walks around wiping your hands on the walls, DO NOT paint the OSB. If you throw wrenches but have a calm enough attitude to touch up any marks you make, PAINT the OSB.
If you want your garage to look like the inside of your house, don't have an attitude, then by all means put up drywall. If you are the type that has an attitude and want to run your fist into the wall, disregard OSB as you might break your hand, put up drywall, paint the drywall, then patch the fist holes.
If you want it to look like the inside of your house, but don't know how to hit a stud after you paint the drywall, put OSB up first, put drywall over it, then p[aint the drywall.
If you do not know how to find a stud, want your garage to look like the inside of your house, but want to hang anything anywhere, then put drywall over the OSB, but only if you are a responsible drinker in your garage and can remember there is OSB under the drywall.
Or go with steel. You have galvinized, corrugated, painted, long sheet, short sheets used as wainscotting, rusted, rusted currugated, rusted corrugated used as wainscotting, rusted with paint.
Then you can use steel over drywall, steel over OSB, steel wainscotting with OSB above, steel wainscotting with drywall above, steel wainscotting with drywall over OSB above.
DO NOT use PVC airlines anywhere, or members will read you every aspect of safety standards that has ever been wrote for PVC line from A-Z and then some. Also gray bottom with a white top for wall paint with a stripe of your choosing. Myself, I have corrugated steel wainscotting with maroon walls, a white stripe and a black ceiling.
Have fun, take a break for another beer after reading through every half a dozen threads or so, check in the mirror to make sure you still have most of your sanity, and above all if you don't already know.........WE LIKE PICS!!!!! The more pics the better. Pics of wife or girlfriend are always welcome, pics of wife or girlfriend swinging a sledgehammer or running a power nailer are good too. Bonus points if you have pics of wife or girlfriend up on roof using a power nailer.
Oh, and BTW........Pics, pics, and pics!!!!!
And again...WELCOME!!!!
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