• cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
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    6 hours ago

    I would say average. In gaming I’m not really that good. If I play shooters my aim quite sucks and in Dead by Daylight I get downed quite easily, but after about 300h I’m finally getting a little bit better and know, at least on certain maps/structures how to not get hit that easily.

    In MTG I’m also quite mid, but this is also because I dont play that much and I’m building decks even mor infrequently. I also dont really have the will to deep dive and get some super overpowered decks and such stuff.

    Warhammer is something where I have to differenciate between painting and playing. I kinda suck at playing, mainly because I always forget to use stuff like my strategems or ability’s. Painting wise I’m still a beginner, but I can see the improvements between each miniature I paint. They keep getting better. I also got better at painting small details and doing stuff like layering, edge Highlights and blacklining. Also something quite funny is, that in school I absolutely hated, and therefore sucked at, art class. In Retrospective its mainly because we never learned how to paint. We just got some colours, a sheet of paper and the instruction “paint this”. We never learned such stuff that objects which are higher than others should be brighter. We never learned how to paint color gradients. If you were lucky that you knew how to do such stuff then you easily got good grades, but if you never supported those who never learned or knew such stuff you were basically doomed to 9 years of torture until you were in the higher classes and weren’t forced to take art class.

    I also play Trumpet and, again, I’m quite mid there. I dont play that much but I’ve been playing it for now about 10 years, so I devinetively got some experience. In terms of “qualifications” so far I have only mastered the German D1 course (I have no clue if there are any international equivalents), so nothing to fancy there.

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      4 hours ago

      I hated Art class as well until we got a photo project, arranging a scene and getting a nice picture is something I can do. But drawing or painting was never for me, unless it’s a technical drawing my brain just shuts down. I can easily come up with a technical solution, draw the template or 3d model and make it. But having to create something out of nothing that has no intrinsic purpose just doesn’t do it for me.

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        54 minutes ago

        I never had photography, because that was iirc in 11th grade and I only had it until 9th grade. I also still suck at freehand drawing. Miniature painting is quite easy compared to this, because you only have to learn how to work with the colors and need a calm hand, but really drawing something is nothing I can do.