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Much birthday happiness to you!!!

Much birthday happiness to you!!!

From the creators of Cyanide & Happiness comes a card game where players compete to finish an awful comic strip. Link.

Hello! Sorry if this seems like a silly question but I am honestly curious about what people will say. I will offer my own answer first: For me, there is no question, that it is when something new happens that I wasn't expecting. Either I experiment with some new paint that surprises me, or I try a new a technique (basing, eyes, wet palette, etc), and particularly when I start painting a miniature that I am not all that excited about and it gets to a certain point in the painting when the details resolve into a surprising whole that really catches my attention and makes the figures seem dramatic and exciting and something is revealed about the figure that I hadn't noticed and for a fleeting instant this is the coolest mini I have ever seen. Or I try something hard that I have chickened out of before and it seems to even kind of work if I squint hard and make a wish. Constantly trying new things and discovering new things. For instance, cutting the bases off a bunch of bones and planting them in clay bases was something that I had a hard time making myself do. Once I started I couldn't stop because of how much fun it was to see the new base "frame" the mini and add some drama to the pose. This is what keeps me enthusiastic and coming back for more. Cheers and hope your Thursday night rocks.