How do you paint?

Mystic91b · Post by **Mystic91b** » Sun Dec 15, 2002 8:26 pm

An interesting question I thought of when I was painting last night. I'm not looking for painting techniques here, but what I am asking is what do you guys do when you paint? Listen to music? have the tv running? stuff like that.

Naram sin · Post by **Naram sin** » Sun Dec 15, 2002 8:36 pm

Moustly dark room radio on or Winamp running. Sometime I am watching film on TV but do this only if you can concentrate on painting!!!!

Mystic91b · Post by **Mystic91b** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 12:52 am

Myself, I usually paint in the living room, with a movie that I like but have seen before running on the tv, this way I can listen to it without having to watch the thing.

Elvenknight · Post by **Elvenknight** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 4:11 am

Sometimes I paint listening to music. Although I haven't been painting too much lately, need more models

Post by **Vorchild** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 4:53 am

I used to paint in my basement, but there it was too cold and the seat too high (or table too low) and my fingers were cold and my back sore. Now, I paint upstairs where its nice and warm and I have better acces to light and other things generated by electricity. Usually, I listen to music (usually the radio) and get lost in painting. This is very possible since, without my glasses, I'm pretty blind, and with the noise from the stereo, I cannot hear the outside world so all that's left is some nice sounds and the models (have the toughest time seeing which paints I'm about to use though

). Highly enjoyable.

Luxor moonprince · Post by **Luxor moonprince** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 11:19 am

I paint in my sitting room. It's got great light and I usually have the TV running.

I get completely lost in the painting though so anything could be on!

Harkon · Post by **Harkon** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 8:17 pm

I paint much like Naram Sin, in a darkened room, listening to Brutal Death or Hardcore or sth like this, or when its summer i just sit in the garden doin' painting. :evil:

Cladenin blackcloak · Tue Dec 17, 2002 12:29 am

I paint in my basemend where my finges get cold an my back hurts because my :twisted:

evil

parents won't let me paint anywhere else.

Leithel and odd · Post by **Leithel and odd** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 1:03 am

Depends on my mood and what I'm trying to paint. I usually paint in front of the TV late at night watching something stupid like "Night Visions" or "The Late Show with David Letterman" because I can listen without paying attention. Or I'll listen to music.

I'm usually in my room, on my bed sitting at my paitning table that is covered in modelling and painting crap.

Unseen · Post by **Unseen** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 1:04 am

Well, i am a gamer who enjoys the hobby aspect of the game, yet at times (with a busy schedule) find myself bogged down knee-deep in unpainted models. So, My friends and I got an idea. The four of us decided to reduce the mundane part of painting (the painting of your basic two/three colors on your regiments) by setting up sort of an assembly line. I am by far the best painter in the group, but thier poor skills do not bother me. All we paint is like four or five models at a time as follows: I will take skin colour and dap on where needed, Brant takes orange and does parts i assign him too (the cloth on my warriors), he then passes it to Scott who paints on all the silver (the blades and such), and he finally passes it to Josh who paints the brown on (leather, boots). We each rotate jobs until a regiment is finished, then we move onto someone elses regiment (like orcs, or beastmen). This leaves each person to do his own touch ups at home, and do any special detailing he wants while ridding of all the slow and boring part of regiment painting. This WORKS, trust me, one time we spend about an hour painting, we completed 40 models, ready to be touched up.

if you dont like painting (which i actually enjoy it), i would definatly recommed this tactic. If you do like painting, i still recommend it because it leaves you to do all the touch up (to your supurior standard quality), and add in you minute and articulate deatils.

Macknight · Post by **Macknight** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 7:28 am

Put Braveheart in the background is my way of painting without disruption! I paint 2 models at a time to very detailed, 1 for special characters or regiments, the method is very slow but the results are astonishing!

Lord dalamar do'urden · Tue Dec 17, 2002 7:56 am

i usually paint in my kitchen with a bit of the ramones in the back ground to keep me company and to block out the sound of my kids !lol!

phil

Leithel and odd · Post by **Leithel and odd** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 12:07 am

You could just lock your kids in the basement, that'll keep their sound away from you. Or you could put them in the attic where the flowers are

Nyat · Post by **Nyat** » Thu Dec 26, 2002 10:40 pm

I dip a paint brush in paint and move it over models in a predetermined pattern

But seriously, I listen to my rock music or leave the T.V. on if theirs something good on (especially anime)

Quasekomiki · Post by **Quasekomiki** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 7:12 am

Depends... usually some music's on in the background, sometimes the telly, not that I'm paying attention to what's playing though... I regularly get comments from my girlfriend about what I'm 'watching'

Ond of course a lot of 'cigarette' breaks to calm down the nerves and get a steady hand...

Lord happyslave · Post by **Lord happyslave** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 9:41 pm

Quasekomiki wrote:
Ond of course a lot of 'cigarette' breaks to calm down the nerves and get a steady hand...

Mmmh, "Roken kan de gezondheid ernstige schade toebrengen!"

Mmmh, "Tabacco can seriously damage health!"

Post by **Lord Thalack** » Sat Dec 28, 2002 9:50 pm

I usually paint on my room while listening to some music or watching tv

Bye
Lord Thalack

Mordehel · Post by **Mordehel** » Mon Dec 30, 2002 1:40 am

I paint in our study, usually listening to music at the same time...though it tends to distract me quite a bit if I do so

At the moment I'd love to be finishing up my army - but the blistering summer heat dries the paint off the brush before it touches the model :shock:

! Extreme frustation reigns.

Danceman · Post by **Danceman** » Mon Dec 30, 2002 2:03 am

good to live up here in the north then

anyways i paint my room,living room,kitchen or wherever i can find peace and quiet... though i define "peace and quiet" as to listen to machine head, the hives, Hellacopters,korn and sometimes the LOTR soundtrack...

Quasekomiki · Post by **Quasekomiki** » Mon Dec 30, 2002 7:25 am

Happyslave wrote:Mmmh, "Tabacco can seriously damage health!"

Hey, you sound like my girlfriend...
You're right though... don't start with that shiz if you aren't hooked up to it...

Danceman · Post by **Danceman** » Mon Dec 30, 2002 1:14 pm

not only can it will... smoking lower you bloodpreasure which also make it easier to get cold(duh) there´s alot of other shiz you dont want to know, just quit in time(i hope i did)

Unseen · Post by **Unseen** » Mon Dec 30, 2002 5:22 pm

man i love this place!
these are great testimonials for the younger viewers....

Danceman · Post by **Danceman** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 3:10 am

hey i gotta do my part! rather say that than sure you look cool now but a wrinkled little box later? nice to see you sharing how you feel... it wasnt meant for younger viewers, i f*cked up my voice and was generally feeling like crap and when i am finally loose from it and telling people to not start, does that make me a <you pick one>???
sure go ahead act "cool" and smoke but dont whine for an cancer operation when you throat or lungs are bye-bye... if not i feel sorry for you(almost anyways...)

Darkelfprincess · Post by **Darkelfprincess** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 7:24 pm

i paint about 1 model per 15 minutes when i listen to music. i do it on my dnning room table. lots of light and the table and chair are perfect.

Mystic91b · Post by **Mystic91b** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 10:08 pm

Just thought I would put my two cents in on the smoking issue. I am a smoker in the process of quitting, and seriously, if there are any of you out there that are thinking of starting or just recently started, give it up. And for those that think quitting is easy, go find a former heroin addict that smokes and ask them which was harder quitting, heroin or nicotine.