Keeping the Painting Bug Alive

[buglips*the*goblin]

Exchanges are a good way for me to push my limits, but they make me feel guilty if stuff comes up along the way to slow down progress and getting it out. This increases the already extant pressure of pushing my limits, and just frays my nerve endings.

[bblythe84]

I am currently in a dry spell as it were and its not due to the lack of a creative spark in my case it is time money and pain colors (or lack there of) I have recently moved and have a hobby room but I don't really have a chance to do any painting.

[Exwilly]

well for me i paint minis from many many genres. last week i worked on my khador army. this week starting and finishing my chaos army. next week i start my new job and finish my undead army. sometime in march i get to start my Khador Conquest and Kaladrax. all in all variety keeps me going.

[pocketcthulhu]

Ok I learned a secret today about getting the urge to paint back... browse the reaper store and just look at minis and think about painting them... I'm $50 lighter than I was at lunch time.

[bentopotato]

Yep, happens to me all the time. Get 10 minis from reaper, get slamed and demotivated after 6 or 8 then go over to the show off section of the forum, get 10 more and paint another 6 or 8...

[redambrosia]

I think one thing that helps me is having something simple to do. Recently I've had a lot of minis that require modifications, which is a literal pain for me with my tendonitis, so having something to paint that I don't need to alter or even base is nice. So ya, all those bones will be pretty spiffy for that.

[Nocturne]

I go up and down depending what else is on. I tend to do most of my painting in the middle of the year around June to September.

I've normally only got the evenings free and I tend to prefer painting in natural light even with a very good artifical daylight setup. Up to the end of May I'm normally involved in rehearsals for plays so with a couple of evening already gone I tend to not get round to painting.

[nytflyr]

there's one more thing that motivates me...

 

ReaperCon

[estrus]

Inspiration strikes me at the strangest times. I'll loadup a new game (Torchlight 2) play for awhile and start to see the monsters as lil miniatures running around that need painting up.

 

I'll be browsing Amazons blurays and see these pictures:

 

and find myself staring at the colors and textures and realize I can't wait to find that extra "Jade, Dancing Girl" I know I have somewhere to try and replicate those colors!

[Girot]

Nice idea!!

[flygyrl]

Paint club helps keep me motivated. Going and hanging out around other people painting forces you to paint even if you were not in the mood at first. Before I know it I don't want to stop.

[Hibou]

Looks like my gaming group might be having a paiting night for the first time since the mid 90s. Some of my fondest memories are sitting and painting my early minis with these guys.

[Arachne]

Coming to the forums really helps me. Looking at your WIP and Show Offs. Also, I go on long spans of playing games, like WoW or Guildwars, and suddenly I'll get obsessed with recreating a character, or some concept (for those familiar with World of Warcraft, I'm about to undertake a whole Scarlet Crusade scenario, maybe with a diorama in front of a cathedral, like the one in Tyr's Hand).

 

Sometimes, all it takes is sitting at my table and looking at my stuff. I keep an old laptop up there, and I'll just sit at that table and surf from there, next thing I know, I've got mini in hand, and I'm dotting paint on the palette.

[buglips*the*goblin]

If I had my way, all I'd ever do every day is paint and put up WIPs. But life keeps finding ways to get interesting, and that eats deeply into my table time.

 

At this rate my poor Frost Worm won't get to eat any adventurers at all!

[bentopotato]

I am sure it is true with almost all of us....in fact I think it is true for ALL of us.