 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video this week I'm gonna let you in on the number one secret I have for helping you to sit down to paint and most importantly improve Let's get into it. The strict techno man sir. That is Vincy V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vincy V So as of the time I'm filming this this last weekend I was lucky enough to have some of my best friends and some of the best painters in the US Come over into my house and get together for a paint jam and Part of this video is just going to be me sharing some of the experiences from that weekend and their thoughts But also a big part of this video is going to be me talking about why I think Painting with friends is something that we should all be doing more this particular paint jam was maybe the fourth time that we've gotten together for this and I will say that some of the best improvement some of the most focused And really some of the times I've enjoyed the most painting in the past couple years have been when I've gotten together with others it's not just these guys, but they're a big part of it and Getting together with others and sitting down and saying we're gonna have a focused hobby weekend day Evening couple hours anything like that can be incredibly impactful to your hobby journey When you're all there together It brings a level of focus to what you're all working on Much like when you're working out you want to have a spotter. This is much the same But there's more to it than just having other people there to put social pressure on you to keep you painting Although that is a big part of it. Hi Perfect. What are you working on? Miniature that is a miniature. Yes John. What project are you doing? I'm working on a piece for Golden Beaman Diorama and it's got 72 zombies on it, and I've done two That's not true. You've done two and a half. You're on almost your third one Yeah, thanks for being positive. Absolutely. You're gonna get there. All right, John So why did you come to Vinci con? Why do you like paint jams? Why do you like painting with all of us? I Was hungry There's a good spread I Think a lot of times we were just kind of in our own room and we're all kind of doing the same thing, but we're just doing it anywhere around the world and Here you just get to have the conversations with your buddies that you'd be Having when you were eating dinner or drinking a beer or watching a game or whatever But instead we're just doing it while we're also being productive paint stuff and that's feels pretty cool Very nice Having other people to bounce your ideas off of when you're stuck on a color when you're not sure what you know What composition is going to work when you're not sure exactly why you're having a problem with a paint? You can turn to another person ask them a question and they can try to help It's unbelievable how effective this is at just getting you over the mental blocks that you sometimes run into. Hey Scott Hey, what are you working on buddy some blood night? Hey Now is this the only thing you've worked on this weekend Scott? No, I've worked on a ten-man unit of skeletons over here And also I finished up zombie dragon both projects that I had already started But I finished them here. Yes indeed. You've you've had a very productive weekend then you would say it looks productive But really both these things were like 95% done I just came to finish them off here to look productive compared to everyone else there. I see that's what it was All right, what's the value of a painting jam for you of getting together? Oh, you know, it's just like several hours of uninterrupted time to be creative and Just get a lot of work done. I think normally I have maybe like 30 minutes to an hour to paint like a day And you can make some progress there, but it feels really good. Just finish a ton of shit ton of stuff in one go And it just it makes you feel like a productive hobbyist, which I feel like it's good for like motivation Absolutely. All right. Are these five gonna be done by the time you leave? No Especially now with the way I'm painting this gold and this silver right now Maybe I can get through all like the really like boring stuff or like the pedantic stuff So I can have just the fun stuff left at the end Love it. Painting is a very solitary journey Oftentimes most of the time when I'm painting It's just me sitting here alone at my desk and the only company I have is YouTube or other people's voices coming over some digital medium and it's fine I think we all some of you know to some degree Enjoy that aspect of it or at least I hope so if you're watching this channel But it's good to bust out of your comfort zone every so often Because having those other people there can help get you over not only those breaks, but it can also help you truly improve when you're Finishing a piece when you're doing an area when you're working on something you can hand it over to somebody else the table and say What do you think give me your honest feedback and? Value that feedback Because if they're there in the moment they're looking at it They haven't been staring at it like you have for hours They've got fresh eyes and those fresh eyes are gonna see things you missed and they can help you improve Not only and maybe how you're applying your paint to the techniques you're using or the finish you're achieving But just in how you think about the model Notice the things they spot that you didn't and hopefully you can integrate that in to your own evaluation of your work in the future Hi, Sam. How you doing? Oh, hey Vince. How's it going good didn't see you there? Oh Scott's here Hey everybody What are you working on there, buddy? I'm doing a little drawing. I've been enjoying sketching again. So I've got this skeletal horse rider Very nice. What did you paint this weekend? I worked on a skeleton actually it's I want to do more classy pieces as I start looking around at my options I've got this cursed city Objective marker. I love these since they they first came out Yeah, that's the guy hanging from the gallows, but made this like seaside warning Grave kind of thing. I'm gonna add the water effects at home. But yeah, it's very simple and a Fun piece. It's got a lot of good movement to it and stuff Yeah, sometimes I paint certain things and it feels like I'm painting like a little Lego man And then some things feel like art. So this felt more like art. Yeah, all right What's your what's your value that you draw out of hanging out with everybody in painting? Oh, man So I get to hear everyone else's answer first So let's just check all of those those boxes like yeah, those are all great reasons, but Yeah, just taking you know stepping out and taking time to specifically Get creative and be productive Yeah, that's what's really special about it and like just changing my own scenery You know, I can sit in my own studio all the time. So coming here and having this little pop-up studio and just sharing in the motivation and Deepening our painting friendship bond and all that But yeah, mostly like the change of scenery and motivation the kind of changing of your mindset Yeah, I'm just locked in here and I have very few things in front of me to just Keep working on nothing to distract you. Yeah Right on now. I know not everybody's got the good fortune To be able to have the time or the space or the luxury of getting together with a lot of painters In their house in Europe, you know, if you're living a small apartment or something like that You just might not have the room. If you live somewhere remote, you might not have people near you who also paint But if you've got a game store and you know, they have a paint night go join that If they've got a game store and they don't have a paint night, maybe you could start one If you live remote, but you're still watching this, it means you have the internet Join a discord that's focused to painting or something like that and jump into hangouts and paint with other people digitally It's certainly not the same as getting that real-time feedback But a lot of it still applies that motivation to keep going that ability to answer questions quickly and easily that's all right there at your fingertips and Whether you're in person or over the internet It can just be an incredibly rewarding experience to share the painting journey with other people Adam All right now. I can't help but notice this general lack of painting stuff in front of you, but there are many miniatures sure What are you working on? Let's see. I built a bunch of Leagues of Votan Hearthken I believe is the name mm-hmm the base units and I'm going to be using them for space weirdos and Probably other games like Stargrave and all kinds of stuff like that planet 28 I just like those models when they first showed them off And I definitely wanted to get some so I did finally get some and I just haven't had the time to build them So I did some of that and now I'm working on I'm working on a piece that I'm gonna try to put into the Capital palette, which is the Big fancy painting competition at the Novo open so this is a nergal I don't know what the heck is it depth shrouds some or other Death shroud bodyguard, so I want to have him be my my first entry into Competition painting potentially my only but still none the less Gonna give it a try. I like it now look here's the question Yes, this whole video is about you know the value of getting together and hanging out and doing a painting gym But you are a person who enjoys painting solo you enjoy the sort of you have a very focused method where you paint right? Yeah, so you didn't paint this weekend, which is fine other than the gentle ribbing of course We have all given you sure, but yeah, you're still here. You're hanging out So what's the value you find and still hanging out and doing things like the assembly or this other pre-work or stuff like that? I mean, it's mainly just the the hanging out part Really like I could have you know, I've also been working on all kinds of other little weird things Like I said, I wrote a good list for these guys And went back and forth on that to try to squeeze as many points out as possible I spent some time, you know just doing normal YouTube stuff the comments and things like that We did some play testing for our next upcoming game like there's lots of benefits to getting together in general of course But like you mentioned, I'm not I when I paint I've got headphones on and I'm a by myself and I just spend you know Sometimes it's an hour or two sometimes on a weekend I can let her snap a little bit longer and and that's good too. So that's cool But yeah, I just I don't I don't I don't paint well with others. Let's just say that That's all right, we're still very glad you were here because it's been an awesome time It's been great to be here. Absolutely. All right now I'm gonna back up like this and everybody's gonna turn and look at me Yes, there you go, and you're all gonna say something All right, everybody say something The one downside is I can't beat anyone up here Even if you don't like painting with other people, it can still be great to get together talk about the hobby Just sort of jam out and maybe you assemble some things like Adam did and the reality is all that does is Build up that love of the hobby in you I walked away from last weekend completely jazzed ready to paint ready to play ready to get more Deeply into this hobby. We all love so if you have the chance. I cannot recommend enough That you you know with your friends get together plan for maybe an hour or two start simple once a month Get together and jam and paint or go to your local store to a paint night or something like that And if you really can knock it out go for a whole day or a paint weekend if you've got that kind of luxury and I know Not everyone has that luxury. We all have families. Lots of us have kids commitments time. That's understandable But where you can where you can make the time This is a great way to spend it Because nothing will improve your hobby more than sharing it with others. There you go. 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So check them out as well Don't forget if you do want to take your next step on your hobby journey There's a patreon down below focused on review and feedback and sharing your hobby experience with others As always, I thank you so much for watching this one and we'll see you next time That's an ancient Egypt Yes, I'm glad you mentioned this you may have heard word is spreading of The new war game basically clashes of Kings and queens and thieves and rascals and the ancient sandblown Warscape of egg jet It's going to be a game Way you use eggs for miniatures and I'm already working on expansion eggs of Saturn Perfect