Your Career And Your Painting - Connected?

[Clarkdobbs112]

I happened to have a few primed and basecoated hormagaunts handy, and some bleached bone paint. On a lark, I asked my mother if she'd like to try "painting this little figure here" during one of her rare free moments. She's a psychiatrist by trade, so she doesn't work much with her hands, but she did go to medical school, she worked for years as an internist, and she originally trained as a medical illustrator. She also used to draw as a hobby.

Anyway, I was suprised when she actually agreed to paint it, though slightly less so at the job she did. Basically, she sat down on the back porch while the rest us read magazines or played with the dog. Five minutes later, all the carapace and the claws are perfectly coated in bleached bone paint. My sister, curious, asks if she can have a go at a one of the models, too. Before I know it, an entire squad of gaunts has been taken care of for me, and by the people who usually mock my hobby, no less. My sister, like me, is a student, and while we both have some fine arts background, (mostly sculpting, for me, and sketching for her) I was surprised by how quickly she figured out the basics of painting.

That was kind of a tangent. My real question is, does anybody on the board have a career that either benefits their painting, or is benefitted by the dexterity they've built by painting? For example, a friend of our family is an opthamologist, and one of his hobbies is building and flying model helicopters. He also enjoys metalworking. Also, I've heard that a hand-surgeon and collegue of my mothers is a fan of wargaming (I think it's napoleonics, though).

Also, have any of you guys roped any non-gamers into painting?

[BLADERUNNER]

Yup.....I've got my friends to do my bloody grunt work for me. I tried teaching Ryan one of my other friends...tsk tsk, he never got it. As for me. I'm almost an expert painter, I try and teach people when I can , or when its not frusterating (bloody ripping your hair out trying to teach them kinda stuff)
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Han solo on the millinium falcon to Chewbacca "NO NO! THIS ONE GOES THERE, THAT ONE GOES HERE!!!"
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For the Tau'va!

p.s. If you want fast money and your good at painting, sell your miniatures on ebay!

[Draegath]

Im a student who makes extra money selling paintings - so I guess my work is kinda linked - doesnt make me a particularily good painter of miniatures tho *shame*

MY MUM SEZ I GOOD

[TzeentchPlayer]

I would rather say that the hobby got me into my career. I never realised the talent i had for painting little lines and such. So then i thought: Hey, why not be a surgeon or something. And lo and behold i'm a pre med student in college now. But of course i'll still love to paint and all too, minis for everyone after my first year of being a surgeon!!!! (mind you its more than 8 years away).

[BLADERUNNER]

*Slowly walks away from tenzetch player* err..but happento notice your knack for chaos...in the surgury room...umm.....that might get a little gory.

[Absoluthor]

MY MUM SEZ I GOOD

LOL!

I've studied art on senior high school level, and I benefit a lot from that. It helps me with everything from highlighting and shading to making good color schemes.
Another side effect is that I think in terms of composition when I make terrain. Like now I'm making some stone pillars, and I've settled for three in different heights instead of four or two of same height, which I probably would have chosen if I didn't know about composition.

[Green eggs & ham]

My father is a surgeon and my mom is an artist, she paints esculpts and all that, so i guess thats why i got nice painting skills and steady hands, its in the blood i think, lol.
Actually painting miniatures is a big part of my job, cuz i work at a store that only sells games worshop stuff, so when a customer want to have his army or miniature painted and sometimes converted, they give it to me, im making a nice amount of money doing this and i enjoy it cuz i love to paint, so to answer ur question i have to say that painting is tottaly connected with my job...

[Bloodied Wing]

I never had any artistic skills whatsoever, so my minis are normally cr*p

[Spike_alike]

Hmm, I'm too young to have a career, although when I do, I'm sure my painting skills I have built up are sure to help.

DAMN my youth!!! :lol: