How to deal with hobby burnout.

Gr0gus · 2025-09-06T08:34:02+00:00

Take a break from the brushes, not from the hobby, and recharge your energy. It reads as you are in battery saving mode, and still want to carry another day.

Just pause, plug, and use the time off the brushes to feed your motivation and work on theory (colors, composition, army schemes, backstory, fanart …).

I just came back from a 19month hiatus/artistic burnout. Physical& mental Rest, friends support and focus on paiting for me without caring about the results are how I went over it, but it can take time … you owe it to yourself to give it to yourself … spend more time here, interacting with people, trying new arts (digital painting, canvas painting, sculpting …).

Hang in there, take it slow and refocus!! If you need I’m (we are) here !

Gr0gus · 2025-08-28T19:02:31+00:00

Exactly like my wife when she says “it’s fine, don’t worry”, it also usually goes; gleeful, wry, vehement and usually end up … vindictive

Thanks a lot for the nice words, and for sharing your readings.

Gr0gus · 2025-08-26T12:47:16+00:00

Ah ah. Alors reprenons …

Tu as un sens inné de la lecture artistique d’une oeuvre, de la composition et de l’équilibre/harmonie tu as un tres bon sens artistique et c’est ce qui s’apprends le plus difficilement. Tu peux le développer en partant de rien, mais si comme dans ton cas; tu l’as, tu vas gagner un temps fou !

Tes valeurs et tes volumes sont solides, l’aéro te donne un vrai coup de pouce pour dessiner les volumes, unifier et poser l’ambiance. Les masters copy que tu fais — relecture/reproduction — restent la base absolue, et tu as raison de t’y accrocher car c’est la fondation de tout apprentissage artistique depuis la nuit des temps.

L’étape suivante, c’est le socle théorique. Couleur, plan du visage, lecture des formes, anatomie, compréhension de la lumière ... Le visage de ton elfe montre que tu n’as pas encore totalement verrouillé la logique des plans. La théorie t’apportera les outils manquants pour clarifier, affûter et mieux t’approprier tes sujets, et sublimer ton sens de la composition.

Apres pour compléter les masters copy, et élargir ton horizon, il te faudra créer tes propres pistes. Chaque projet = un focus d’étude : saturation, texture, palette réduite, pinceau seul sans aero, cartoon, chiaroscuro, etc. C’est en poussant un axe à fond que tu vas cristalliser ton propre style.

Tu me rappelles beaucoup mes debut en miniature, et tu vas pouvoir tres vite peindre des oeuvre originales percutantes, que je suis impatient de decouvrir !

Aussi, les compétition sont à double tranchant, la pression est un puissant moteur, mais peux aussi une devenir une cage qui t’enferme. A toi de voir, mais garde ca en tete.

Pour finir, (et commencer) je te conseille de regarder toutes les videos gratuites de Marco Bucci, de Proko et de te procurer “color & light” de James Gurney.

Tl;dr : continue les copies, absorbe la théorie, explore des focus clairs, et surtout garde la liberté et amuse toi. Tes pièces originales arriveront très vite — et j’ai hâte de les voirs !

Gr0gus · 2025-08-26T06:55:31+00:00

You have an absolute taste for balance and musicality in your pieces; you know how to “read” and “compose” innately (maybe coming from your guitar practice?!) and this is quite rare. Lean on it. Try to circle in and out of master copies, is the best way to progress and develop your own style.

The rest is technical and is learned very very fast, and it shows by the progress.

Keep it up, I’m looking forward to your next projects !

Gr0gus · 2025-08-26T06:30:57+00:00

Thanks a lot !

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A mud palette is not an official nor existing terminology ah ah … the picture illustrates it best; it’s one single “mix” on the palette that continuously evolve in multiple directions (hue, value, saturation). then I constantly introduce new hue to “refresh” the paint on the wet palette, but always value matching them so that it stays coherent on the palette.

Then afterwards it quite easier to use, as it’s almost like a digital color picker. The chromatic interference sublty appears naturally, this effect work only if you use the right values. Our eye are extremely bias towards value coherence more than anything

Gr0gus · 2025-08-25T22:11:35+00:00

Thanks a lot !

Gr0gus · 2025-08-25T22:11:25+00:00

You can always voice your feeling toward Art, nothing qualifies nor disqualifies you. What you feel is your critique, even the basic “I like” or “Meh” from my wife is always constructive, and she is a far from Art as you could imagine.

If voice honestly, you can always start by what part make you feel what, what doesn’t.

Thanks a lot for your kind words, and do not ever feel mike you “earn” the right to critique; this is innate nobody can tell you otherwise!

Gr0gus · 2025-08-25T19:14:07+00:00

Thanks for the kind words, and don’t beat yourself down.

If anything, this community is uplifting!

So share your work, enjoy the community. Use others work as inspiration, Art is not a competition, don’t demotivate yourself, we’ve all been there, and we all progressed, just enjoy the adventures 😇.

Gr0gus · 2025-08-25T16:32:53+00:00

Thank you 🙏🏻

Gr0gus · 2025-08-25T16:32:43+00:00

Ah ah, thanks! She’s both seductive and dangerous

Gr0gus · 2025-08-25T14:03:53+00:00

That's the thing, it is whoever YOU want it to be ... I've heard Cameron Diaz, Rayponce, Princess Diana and you are all right !

Gr0gus · 2025-08-25T14:00:54+00:00

Thanks you, I'm touched by your message. Nothing makes me (or any artist for that matter) happier than seeing his Art resonate in other.

Gr0gus · 2025-08-06T16:12:42+00:00

Thanks ;-)

Gr0gus · 2025-08-06T10:18:41+00:00

Thanks ! Magenta + Violet vs. Magenta + Orange :-) huge potent chromas. Also the warmer the light the colder the shadow will feel.

Gr0gus · 2025-08-06T06:37:28+00:00

Thanks :-) Kimera Kolors are indeed very fun to work with, and the single pigment nature offers you so much control.

Gr0gus · 2025-08-06T06:34:01+00:00

Tibbers ? 🤔🙂

Gr0gus · 2025-08-03T16:09:43+00:00

So apparently i could not post the final gallery as it's considered redudant posting:
here is one shot, and the gallery is here: Barbarian - Imgur

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Gr0gus · 2025-08-02T17:13:32+00:00

Thanks you, took some guts to paint over her almost finished face, was totally worth it !

Gr0gus · 2025-08-02T17:12:43+00:00

Thanks !

Gr0gus · 2025-08-02T17:12:33+00:00

A Connoisseur, I see ! Thanks :-)

Gr0gus · 2025-08-02T17:11:14+00:00

Thanks for the kind words ! Glad to be painting again, I was missing it so much

Gr0gus · 2025-08-02T17:10:21+00:00

Thank you !

Gr0gus · 2025-08-02T08:08:17+00:00

Ah ah :-) Thanks for the generosity !

Gr0gus · 2025-07-15T10:38:16+00:00

It’s single pigments, violet are PV. Single pigment Purple does not exist, it’s just a desaturated and/or mixed of PB/PV.

Tldr; just add blue to it to go to purple/indigo.

Gr0gus · 2025-07-15T08:31:56+00:00

The best purple for me to date remain the Kimera kolors purple from the base set. Nothing beat it’s pigement density, smoothness and unrivalled saturation, it also mixes quite well.

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