Not one of my higher moments

[hestan101]

Well Gd Uk has come and gone. i saw some truly stunning models and was inspired b the eavy metal work on show. howvere my entry for young bloods was about a third of the way through at 9:20 pm on saturday night, so i didnt get round to entering it. well theres one of my two remainign shots at an award gone, plus a year of learning partciscing and waiting wasted. i felt gutted, but i guess ill just have to pull out all the stops next year.

Then, i remebered last years Gd, when i discoverd that if i tried hard, i might have a chance in Golden demon, which slightly allieviated things.

so that made me wonder what are your lowest moments in painting, and what are your best ones?

 

[ScottRadom]

So you\'ve got one year to plan and prepare for an entry... I don\'t get the last minute thingy at all. Unless you weren\'t planning ongoing and decided to throw something together for shits and giggles.

Low point. Just a general kind of painting malaise where it felt like no matter how hard I tried I wan\'t advancing my skills at all. That was about Jan-Mar of this year. Think things are getting better now.

High point? I won a painting contest the other week on WAMP. Pretty cool, but truthfully the best I\'ve ever felt after painting a mini was a Wyrd mini I did a month or two back. Seems I was happy with it, and I couldn\'t really blame anything on chance or luck with the model.

Still lots to learn, and hoping my high point comes at world expo 2011. I\'d like to medal in something.

 

[DrEvilmonki]

I don\'t really have a low point in painting other than the occasional bout of painters block.

My high point was getting my lotr troll get an honourable mention in the oz GD. When my ork kommando was rated 9 for a while I was pretty chuffed as well (still pretty chuffed but that 9 is certainly a psychological barrier I would like to get past)

 

[Mourner]

Low point: pretty much the last month... haven\'t touched a mini in about 2 months... been diagnosed with a (severe) depression....
just can\'t seem to put myself to touch paint or mini.... but i miss it

High point: getting my krieg commissar rated at 8,3 here at CMON...
meant more than any comp i\'ve won so far... to be rated an 8+ by peers, people who know what their looking at.... Golden demon winners.....

 

[In Chigh P.I.]

low points are ten-a-penny for me lol

having the urge or inspiration to model or paint but not being able to due to RL/work commitments really pechs me off sometimes, and then there are times when i do have the time but no motivation

:cussing:

High points are when i actually get something finished :bouncy:

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by hestan101
Well Gd Uk has come and gone. i saw some truly stunning models and was inspired b the eavy metal work on show. howvere my entry for young bloods was about a third of the way through at 9:20 pm on saturday night, so i didnt get round to entering it.

Why didn\'t you complete it overnight (in the great tradition of modelling competitions everywhere)?

Originally posted by hestan101
well theres one of my two remainign shots at an award gone, plus a year of learning partciscing and waiting wasted. i felt gutted, but i guess ill just have to pull out all the stops next year.

Don\'t think of it that way - it\'s not like you can\'t enter after that at all.

But anyway, finish what you were working on for GD now, in the next week or so. Then if you have a planned entry for next year set yourself a date of a couple of months before the next competition. You\'ll have two entries then, with a couple of months in hand to work on something else if you want.

Originally posted by hestan101
so that made me wonder what are your lowest moments in painting, and what are your best ones?

Not painting only but I won gold in Open at Chicago a few years back after not getting a Gold in Painters that I honestly thought was deserved - low and high within a few minutes was pretty sweet.

Despite how sucky it feels at the time to be overlooked or under-appreciated by judges at a show I think the lowest moments would have to be where something disastrous happened - superglue string over completed face, paint bubbling after masking is removed - those are things that stay with you!

Originally posted by Mourner
Low point: pretty much the last month... haven\'t touched a mini in about 2 months... been diagnosed with a (severe) depression....

Kitten needed this location, stat!

Have you considered a name change? Mourner is not exactly associated with giggles

If those fail I\'ve heard good things about Effexor!

Einion

 

[Ritual]

I\'m not sure I\'ve had any actual painting-related low points. I\'m usually happy when I paint and I feel good about finishing stuff, even if it\'s not the best I\'ve done. I\'d say my low points would be periods of time when I\'ve not felt like painting at all.

My high point, quite obviouosly, was winning gold at the World Expo last year. Even though I\'m not particularly competitive and don\'t think winning (or not winning) competitions is important, it certainly feels good to be acknowledged like that.