I thought It looked good

[Valander]

Originally posted by tzor
The ups and downs of CMON.

1) Paint mini
2) Fall in love with mini
3) Photograph mini poorly
4) Have community tear mini to shreads

After a period of depression return to CMON. Discover your old mini. Scream at the monitor about how such an awful mini could ever get the ranking it currently has.

5) learn to paint better
6) learn to photograph better

Lather, rinse and repeat.

ROFLMAO... Yes, that\'s very apt.

Anyway, I agree that getting dunder-headed comments blows. But, you have to realize that there\'s always a couple of jerks in any group of more than, well, one person.

Personally, I\'ve learned a lot from this site, and most of that came from two sources: 1) These forums, and 2) Honest critiques of my stuff. It does me no good to hear nothing but sycophantic praise, but neither are simple \"you suck\" comments helpful.

I\'m with DR on this. If you think something looks bad, explain why you think it\'s bad, and how you suggest to improve it. Comments other than that are pretty useless, even if they do a good job at stroking the ego.

Now... if I could only find time to paint again and buy a new camera...

 

[JakeSh]

I don\'t care what others think. After all, I paint for myself, not for others. Maybe if I was more competitive or getting paid to paint it would matter more.

 

[Starfall]

Originally posted by EricJ
When I\'m painting, I don\'t trust my eyes. Usually throughout the painting process I take many many photos so I can see those inperfections early rather than later once I\'m mentally worn out or done with a figure. It\'s become part of my painting process.

Wow, that sounds really good. I\'m gonna try that next time I\'m painting. (On the other hand it\'s quite pointless because my painting level is so low you can still see my errors and mistakes without a high-resolution camera...)

 

[Medved]

Originally posted by Starfall

Originally posted by EricJ
When I\'m painting, I don\'t trust my eyes. Usually throughout the painting process I take many many photos so I can see those inperfections early rather than later once I\'m mentally worn out or done with a figure. It\'s become part of my painting process.

Wow, that sounds really good. I\'m gonna try that next time I\'m painting. (On the other hand it\'s quite pointless because my painting level is so low you can still see my errors and mistakes without a high-resolution camera...)

i\'m totally with you on this point. ometimes i wonder if most of the details we paint can be seen at arms length.

when i went to the french gd some of the minis had to be viewed 2 inches away from the eyeball to be able to se all the stuff crammed on there. some of the details just got lost the further away you went. sometimes photos add something to a mini..............hey! my last 2 minis were painted for the camera. i am not sure if they have quite the same impact in real life.

some minis really pop IRL and suck you in so you want to see that detail. but some have so much fine work that it all looks drybrushed or flat.

 

[sniffles]

Nothing ever looks as good in a photo, digitial or otherwise, as it does in real life. And what other people like may not be what you like. Not to mention, what kind of ratings are you getting? It\'s a matter of perspective.

 

[sebrushworth]

I really have to disagree very strongly with you there. When I was at GDUK in September I was struck by how much better most of the minis look in the photos on CMON than they do in real life.

 

[Starfall]

I guess this is because photographing miniatures seems to be very difficult to most of us. If we see a brillant photo, taken by some very experienced and maybe professional photographer now that shows everything in great detail and millions of colours, we automatically assume it looks even better (at least a little bit) in real life because it\'s like this in all our and our friends\' photos. But well, here the photo is better than the paint job. Moreover, when looking at a picture you can take as much time as you need to discover the details, the pros and cons, think about the mood the artist was in when he painted the whole thing... and so on. You just watch the miniatures differently on a Games Day. (And please let\'s not talk about photoshopping here, otherwise I see an awful discussion coming up)

 

[Zora]

See now, I\'m trying to get back to my painting, and am pretty hesitant due to fear of how they\'ll come out.

First I want to paint something or two, then worry about reading tutorials and stuff. I just want to get my feet wet again.

One of the problems is looking at somebody\'s work on here, and I think to myself: \"holy sh!t, that\'s good\". Then I realize that for me, if it looks decent from a foot or so away, I\'d be happy. Once I can do that, THEN I\'ll start worrying about how my stuff looks under the scrutiny of the macro feature on my camera.:|~