What are your painting/hobby goals?

[Scherdy]

I tried to make a rough list of stuff I'd like to do this year as well. Some of it may be a little bit of a stretch but we'll see. I hate setting goals btw, but everyone says it's like broccoli and is actually good for you...

Here's the list I came up with:

1)
- Enter Crystal Brush and make it into the online voting portion of the judging.
- Put at least 5 new pieces in my gallery on here with a score of 8 or higher
- Paint at least 1 hour a day 5+ days a week
- Attempt NMM on at least 1 piece
- Post every item I paint on here for critique
- Attempt to use water effect/clear resin on a base
- Paint 1 Knight Models 70 mm piece that I have been avoiding
- Paint at least 1 historical piece
- Paint at least 1 bust
- Attend GottaCon locally in Victoria BC and compete in painting competition
- Paint at least 2 pieces to practice human skin tones

2) From this last year I didn't really have goals set but I think going to Adepticon and meeting other painters is a biggie for me. Not knowing anyone really I could have easily talked myself into not going. I also painted a lot more consistently but still too often skipped it more than I would have liked.

 

[Sicks]

thought i'd post my goals (though i doubt any of them are as lofty as most of what has already been posted)

1. improve my painting of skin tones and faces (especially eyes)
2. improve my metallic painting
3. learn to take more time with basing i often settle for simple and effective which is fine for gaming, but as i dont game, i may as well
4. start a WIP thread and attempt to absorb any knowledge and advice offered to me
5. maybe gather enough confidence in my minis to post some to the gallery
6. get more patience for painting each mini, learning not to get the "that'll do" feeling when i know i can do better
7. convince the mrs. to let me have a permanent space to work at (the dining room table is not ideal)

as for the last year, well i only got back into it around this time last year (might not have even been a full year yet) but there is a significant difference in quality from things i painted back then and things ive painted more recently (even things from a few months ago show a difference in my ability to now)

 

[Maenas]

7. convince the mrs. to let me have a permanent space to work at (the dining room table is not ideal)

I think the last one is the most important, if you do not, at least for me, it is very difficult to paint more regularly because you waste your precious time setting things around and preparing everything. If you have everything at hand it will be easier for you to begin and to stop painting.

Have a look at this thread to take some ideas! as spaces are of a variety of sizes! --> http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?59515-What-does-your-work-space-look-like-(2015)

 

[Sicks]

I think the last one is the most important, if you do not, at least for me, it is very difficult to paint more regularly because you waste your precious time setting things around and preparing everything. If you have everything at hand it will be easier for you to begin and to stop painting.

Have a look at this thread to take some ideas! as spaces are of a variety of sizes! --> http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?59515-What-does-your-work-space-look-like-(2015)

definately, my time is already limited with having 3 kids (the youngest of which is only 3 and has some learning difficulties) so i can generally squeeze in an hour or 2 a day, i much prefer leaving my stuff out so i can just sit and start painting when i get the time. dont think id need much space, i dont take that much room already and with added shelving for my paints and stuff it would be even less

 

[oistene]

As for last year, I started then (rather re-started, but it turned out that I could pretty much forget everything I knew except brush control), so I had no real goals. I wanted to paint all my Zombicide minis, and nothing else, and I didn't finish Zombicide but ended up getting tons of other stuff.

For this years, I have the following:

- Paint more.
- Find more time to paint.
- Use my time better.
- Finish all the Zombicide zombies.
- Spend some time playing all the games I've bought so far.
- Get better in general.
- Practice blending, start to feel that I can do this decently and consistently.
- Go out of my comfort zone and try some new, 'complex' techniques.
- Improve my color theory (i.e. be able to make conscious choices rather than doing everything on whim)
- Enter as many contests as I can without disrupting my work flow too much
- Win a Legion challenge
- Do more demos
- Spend less on Kickstarters

And probably a bunch of other things.

Sicks, I have the exact same situation with kids and such - I managed to carve out some space, and it is beyond valuable. I can't get as much as two hours in most days though, but on occasion I get whole nights and lately I've had plenty of hobby time. Didn't use much of it for painting though, I've done a lot of prep, base building and terrain.

 

[Sicks]

yeah space is a commodity more valuable than gold in my household haha, the only reason i get painting time is because the older 2 kids are at school and my youngest still has naps after his lunch which gives me a good hour or 2 of quiet time

 

[Persifal]

Great Idea, this is my list 2015:
- get in to the Putty and Paint(the hardest thing first)
- 5 new mini in cmon galery
- 2 of them with better score than 8,5
- visit GD with entries to four categories
- 2 of them with finalist spot
- 3 models/units to my Tau army
- finished Tau diorama
- better work with airbrush
- better TMM

 

[Terrafirma]

My goals are huge , running two business's maybe a third keeps me busy but here goes.


1. Find more time to paint to get better .

 

[bishop]

OK, the thread is getting a little old, but I'm just getting into the painting mode and just getting involved in the community.

2015:
enter my first model to CMoN
get at least one model to score 7.5 or higher
paint at least three "big" project (bust, large monster, non-35mm scale)
completely paint at least three "squads" for gaming
paint at least once a week
complete some form of arena for Arena Rex

 

[Webmonkey]

I just want to complete one paint job that isn't total rubbish. I'd really like to get one model good enough for the c'mon annual. But alas,.. even at my best work, I wash out at about a 7,... and you need at least an 8 to even be considered. I also need to work on my blending and shading and highlighting,.. my NMM and TMM,.. my AB skills,.. and I'd really like to master harder things like chrome effects and OSL. Basically,.. I need to learn how to paint,.LOL

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Er I'm semi-responsible for starting this thread and haven't shared my thoughts.

-Score consistently 9.0 or higher. I keep hitting close to this mark and then falling from the last ten votes. But this is fine, I know I have improved since then.

-Enter a major competition. Crystal Brush is fine, as I'm actually going to be a day's drive from Chicago.

-I am medically retiring from the Army in a week. Then it's on to Law school and bigger things. However, I only be a full-time student over the next 3-4 years, so I'll have a lot more time to paint. I'd like to use this time wisely.

-Upgrade my painting station to pro status. While I think I have many of the tools required for this, I could really use one of those flexible tube lights, and some paint racks. Still happy with my monster of a wet pallet

-Place in an online comp of some sort. Never even tried this.

-Be better at everything than Demihuman, both in painting and in life.

-Start a collaborative project with some folks here on CMoN, where the final piece can be auctioned off for charity. I've had some excellent painters tell me they'd help me with this, but personal affairs have kept me too busy. Would love to help out wounded warriors, in my own country and others.

-Invite more talent to P&P. Many deserving artists here that are waiting on invitations. Will invite asap.

-Meet some of you great people in person.

-Long term goal: Make it across the Atlantic to meet some of my painting heroes in the UK and Sweden. Probably at Euromilitaire or GD or something.

-Be a box art painter for a mini company. One day.

-I feel like I've done pretty well with two things in the last year. NMM and my bases. Keep this up, but also want to be a more textural painter. If I can do this goal alone I will be happy.

 

[Demihuman]

Good luck! HAHAHAHAHA!

 

[moetle]

I've read this thread fifty times and I still don't know what to say really....

Cheer up Webmonkey so I'm not the only goober doing garage kits and Mini stuff...
Enter some online comps maybe...
Build more stuff...
Paint more stuff...
Get to CB in Chicago next year and enter some stuff...
Get to meet everyone in person and stuff...
Get everyone together for a cmon group shot...(this would tickle me Reaper Blush Pink)

Yeah not to inspiring I know but, well, I don't want to overdo myself and stuff

 

[SkelettetS]

i really want to learn how to paint with oils! thats my goal, to step out from comfortzone a bit

 

[Coyotebreaks]

mine are quite simple really,

to keep getting better, make each new mini better then the last.

I want to get more confident with fine details like eyes.

to pluck to courage to paint my forge work nurgle demon prince

and that will do for now.

mini painting is very much something that I lime to do for fun and relaxation so I don't tend to put much pressure on myself. When I do that I tend to stop doing something. So yes just keep it fun and keep practising, small improvement over a ling time are the way I hope to go

 

[crystella333]

i really want to learn how to paint with oils! thats my goal, to step out from comfortzone a bit

Oils are a whole different ball game, I've only used them on larger scale models and that was fun....

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Oils are a whole different ball game, I've only used them on larger scale models and that was fun....

I've messed around with them a bit, both on base and on figure. I must say, very intuitive to me. The blending and working the paint was very natural. I found it very workable both undiluted an diluted with some stinky terp. I used it the way described on MV and some other blogs. My next step is to simply base coat a large, potentially historical mini in acrylics and then do the rest in oils. Canvas oil painters often do the same thing; they under paint with acrylics then do the rest in oils.

I shoukd have mentioned that a goal of mine is to do some fantasy freehanding, maybe on canvas maybe on a banner or something, painting in oils.

 

[Sionid]

-Get a gold on P&P. EVEN ONE.
-Have my work be of a quality that I can do some studio painting for a miniatures company (and be at least decently paid for it)
-Win Crystal Brush 2016 (ha!)
-Increasingly detailed freehand
-More intense and varied weathering
-...maybe paint more than one boy a year

This year, I achieved *some* proficiency at NMM, and I tried out loads of new techniques that I'd been too scared to embrace--stippling, more detailed freehand, weathering, texture-creating techniques. Can't say they were all equally successful, but hey.

 

[Kretcher]

My goals are to use oils and become good with them at some large scale projects.

First up is this:
http://www.young-miniatures.com/products/YH1837/YH1837-1.html

Bought some oil colors but guess i need to get more soon, but will try with these first.:
http://www.artx.se/rembrandt-oliesaet-10-x-15-ml.html

Also been looking at these colors but they are mighty expensive

http://www.blockx.be/en/catalogue/index.asp

So my goal is to finish 2 figures this year with oil paints used.

Also one goal is to paint some more gaming figures with a little bit more speed and to finish one army within one year. (this goal feels very hard, we will see.)

Cheers all,

/K

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Another tut I reccomend for oils, besides the MV one, is the one on I believe tutofig where the artist did a really good job with his multimedia. Music plays and he gives instructions in text (AInglish) but it's a 19th century type fig where he lays his oils out on a plate and mixes them together. Sorry it's late I'll post a link later, but he really shows how to paint with oils better than anyone I've seen, if the acrylic underpainting texhnique is what you want.

Just remember, the hardest thing about acrylics is the easiest thing about oils: blending. Kind of wish I'd started out with this medium. My Cannibal project is painted about 25-30% in oils.