Monday, February 27, 2012
Motivation to keep painting.
If I learnt anything painting 200 odd Skaven is that it is important to do a few things to keep your motivation up. There are a few things I have found that work really well to get you finishing painting those boring core units you have to have so many of. One thing is to take photos and show your work on forums and blogs. Getting feedback and watching view counts and page stats grow makes all that time hunched over by yourself seem a bit more worthwhile. Another thing that really helped me was having a tournament, that really got me to paint up the majority of my core troops in a fairly short period of time, it also paid off tournament wise as it got me to fourth. The easiest thing to do is keep a diary about your hobby. I just have a document on my computer where I type in the things I want to do for the month, I don't think I have ever completed all my desired goals for the month, but marking off things that have been completed as seeing them add up over time spurs me on. Doing all these things has gotten me to the stage where I have about 3K of Skaven painted up with a few clanrats and special characters and heroes left to go.
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Totally agree with you about how helpful keeping a blog is. I haven't been to any tournaments, partly because there aren't any that I know of in my area and partly because I am not very competitive!I haven't tried a separate diary, but I think that is a good idea because it sounds much easier to do than forcing myself to get onto the computer.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip!