What drives painting success?

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donga666

Guest
\'Feeling full of love\'

CMON is a crucible for ideas and techniqes, its not a wonder that as a site with such a wide variety of painters/styles/ideas everyone here has to \'lift their game\'. There is nothing but positives to take from everyone.

Before being a \'regular\' on CMON, my painting was just for the gaming table and as a result safe and quick. This site has pushed me and what I want to acheive. Ranking is a great driving factor, just look at sports, I want that ellusive 9!!! :rolleyes:

Oh and a Golden Deamon :D:rolleyes:
 
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Godlikebuthumble

New member
feelin\' all huggy...

it\'s nice to be able to show one\'s work and get some feedback, be it votes or comments... and the stuff I see here really makes me wanna DO stuff... leave the boundaries of \"safe\" painting... oh, and I wanna get a frickin\' 8! Then Europe...lol
 
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vincegamer

Active member
I don\'t know what drives success as I have not succeeded yet.
I know what drives me to paint. I want to produce something that no one else saw out of what everyone else was looking at.
That is why I have my minis I like to call my \"Plowshares Series.\"
Here is the latest. Okay, it\'s a bit old. I did it for the Visions in Color 9 and rushed it to meet the deadline and finally got around to fixing my mistakes.



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Here are some other people\'s views of this same mini:
ThoFu
Saxon Angel
And here\'s everyone else\'s if you\'re really curious:
VIC 9 home

Oh, I also like to get a laugh, which partially explains the Talon.
 
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Frustrated Father

New member
I absolutely refuse the group hug, I\'m sure someone will get too excited and hands will go where they aren\'t wanted!

:eek:
:p

I think CMON has been a good inspiration (and other places as well) to me due to the fact that I can \'see\' other peoples work. I\'m one of those people that have to see something first before I can really dig into it and start up on a miniature. One of my failings I\'m sure.

That being said, there are great articles here, good company, and people willing to offer advice. Although the scoring doesn\'t really get me all bothered, I do have to say, that with each miniature that I post, I try to shoot for that 0.2 increase each time (sad isn\'t it?) to see if I\'m managed to make a more interesting miniature, smoother paint job .. etc.

I doubt I\'ll ever be a GD winner, but I have to say that I quite enjoy the hobby after getting back into it six months ago and its something that my family doesn\'t seem to mind too terribly and even get interested in (my wife critiques me well) and the kids love the opportunity to sit down and paint with me.

Heck, I\'m even painting an army for \'sale\' believe it or not. Something I don\'t think I ever would of done before. Hopefully it will do well, but I have to say, doing so many miniatures at once is aggrivating. Not my best work, but certainly an experience.
 
Valander

Valander

Member
Originally posted by reverend
An AC Cobra. That\'s what would drive me if I were a succesful painter.
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Dood! Having an AC Cobra (I assume you\'re meaning the ones from around 1964-66) would be too freaking awesome. I don\'t think I\'d paint anymore, though, as I would likely want to be out tooling around in that bad-boy. ;)
 
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