State of painting January 2007
Since it is the first workday of 2007 it is clearly time to start laying out all those new years’ resolutions. Well I’m not actually into the whole resolutions idea so I’m going to lay out some notional plans on what I would like to see accomplished with my own painting work. For the past several years I have had difficulty in separating High quality painting from tabletop quality. I have made gains and losses in establishing the distinctions for these purposes. Luckily I have thrown off the shackles of evening classes and can now reclaim time for gaming and painting. Unfortunately it looks as though my business travel will be increasing quite a bit this year.
First I’m not going to do anything silly and lay out specific miniatures that I want done by a certain time. My interest in different figure lines is far too fickle to stick to that. Instead I’m going to lay out three generalities that I will be looking to accomplish through out this year. My overall purpose is to have tabletop quality minature to field but also to further develop my skill with high end painting.
1) 7 hours per week on tabletop quality miniatures.
These will be miniatures for myself, or others but a minimum of 7 hours week for tabletop quality figures.
2) 4 hours a week on “art” projects
I’m going to define art projects as anything towards mastering a painting technique or time spent towards top notch high end painting. This may very well resort in even less figures finished but I think this is an important step in mastering the art of painting figures. Also included in this is learning to use an airbrush properly as an artistic tool, not only as a spray bomb methodology. Additionally I’ve been considering taking up drawing to get a better handle on perspective and light sourcing. I think this is something that will aid me in placing the highlights in the correct positions
3) Submit more figure into online painting competition as well as post every high end paint job onto Cool Mini or Not.
4) As support for #3 I intend to further develop my miniature photography capabilities.
First I’m not going to do anything silly and lay out specific miniatures that I want done by a certain time. My interest in different figure lines is far too fickle to stick to that. Instead I’m going to lay out three generalities that I will be looking to accomplish through out this year. My overall purpose is to have tabletop quality minature to field but also to further develop my skill with high end painting.
1) 7 hours per week on tabletop quality miniatures.
These will be miniatures for myself, or others but a minimum of 7 hours week for tabletop quality figures.
2) 4 hours a week on “art” projects
I’m going to define art projects as anything towards mastering a painting technique or time spent towards top notch high end painting. This may very well resort in even less figures finished but I think this is an important step in mastering the art of painting figures. Also included in this is learning to use an airbrush properly as an artistic tool, not only as a spray bomb methodology. Additionally I’ve been considering taking up drawing to get a better handle on perspective and light sourcing. I think this is something that will aid me in placing the highlights in the correct positions
3) Submit more figure into online painting competition as well as post every high end paint job onto Cool Mini or Not.
4) As support for #3 I intend to further develop my miniature photography capabilities.
posted by Stahler77 at
10:50 AM
3 Comments:
Good luck with your goals.
They are a little high end for me right now. Too many things I want to do with my free time.
(Boy I bet Rob is kicking himself for getting me back into WoW).
If I get 5 hours of painting in a week, I'll be making good progress.
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Karavak, at 9:01 AM, January 03, 2007
Really it's a little more than an hour a day. So an hour a day on table top miniature and a Evening spent on improving art. Hell I just freed up about 9 hours a week not that I'm not driving to and from, as well as sitting through class.
Rob usually can't for see the unintended consequences of his actions. Its okay, he is more amusing for it
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Stahler77, at 2:09 PM, January 03, 2007
Yes, I am kicking myself for you getting back into WoW, Pygmy...
What's sadder is that Assholicus got OUT of WoW and yet his output remains dismal.
By
Robert Allen , at 8:46 AM, January 04, 2007
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