Welcome to the Windstone Family, dark_zorse!!

Congrats!!!

*crawls up from under her rock, otherwise known as a painting booth*

What do I do? Hooo boy…

What I’m being taught to do that’s a priority is painting. I’m being taught by Olympia, and most of the day is spent under her supervision (making sure I don’t screw up *too* badly) learning how to paint properly. It is a *lot* harder than I thought it would be! I also detail, and polish and pack journeystones, learn about inventory stuff, handpaint, and research new eye colors, and nag Melody into doing more hoofers, and scarf down yummy food people send, and make a nusiance of myself in the office, and make odd noises when the factory is empty…

Okay. So maybe those last four things aren’t exactly jobs per se, but someone’s got to do it! I’m being trained to do a whole lot of things, the things I listed above are more-or-less priority currently… I learn how to do something new everyday. It can be daunting, but it is a lot of fun.

Thanks for the welcome! Glad to be a loyal minion- I mean… employee!

What do I do? Hooo boy…

What I’m being taught to do that’s a priority is painting. I’m being taught by Olympia, and most of the day is spent under her supervision (making sure I don’t screw up *too* badly) learning how to paint properly. It is a *lot* harder than I thought it would be! I also detail, and polish and pack journeystones, learn about inventory stuff, handpaint, and research new eye colors, and nag Melody into doing more hoofers, and scarf down yummy food people send, and make a nusiance of myself in the office, and make odd noises when the factory is empty…

Okay. So maybe those last four things aren’t exactly jobs per se, but someone’s got to do it! I’m being trained to do a whole lot of things, the things I listed above are more-or-less priority currently… I learn how to do something new everyday. It can be daunting, but it is a lot of fun.

Thanks for the welcome! Glad to be a loyal minion- I mean… employee!

Ohhh….we need someone to nag for more hoofers! There are too many dragons out there!

I’m so nosy!! One of the things I’ve always wanted to do would be to visit the Factory and see how Oly, Melody, and now you do airbrushing. I handpaint my special pieces of course with brushes, but I have an airbrush for getting a solid color base coat on these critters and to me it seems like only slightly-more-controlled spraypaint! 😆 Those that are skilled in airbrushing make it look easy. What do you find difficult about it? I don’t want to disclose trade secrets but do you find it hard to layer the colors? Detail? I’m an Art Nerd so any new artform is fascinating to me.

Getting the paint to be just right on a piece is the absolute *hardest* thing, even just a flat color! If you use the airbrush too close to the piece, the paint runs because the air is too close to the piece, if you have the airbrush too far away, and the paint actually begins to dry in mid-air so you get a rough/grainy texture. Plus, the airbrushes are notoriously tempramental – suprisingly small amounts of dried paint can radically alter how an airbrush performs, as does the humidity level. Or (like in my case) you just might have an airbrush that flat out hates you ;____;. I’ve just managed to learn the right way to airbrush so I can be more-or-less unsupervised (not without screwing up, however. I have a visual gallery of windstone pieces of what not to do with an airbrush decorating my booth) after weeks of practice. But once you get the knack for it, it is much, much easier. After learning how to just put paint on a piece well, layering colors and the rest is a piece of cake by comparison. That’s just wrist training in learning how exactly to move the airbrush. For me, it’s made more difficult in that I’m left handed – most of the good airbrushes are made for right handers, so I’ve had to improvise quite a bit because the canister the paint rests in is always in my way. But I’m learning.

Personally, I tried hand-painting a piece with scales, I have no idea how you can stand painting dragons like the Emporer by hand! The only way I can get the paint to be smooth on the scales is to air-brush.

Okay, strike what I said earlier – the hardest thing is not learning how to paint properly. The hardest thing is packing secret keepers to be shipped. I got the dubious honor of learning how to pack secret keepers for shipping today. That has got to be one of the most difficult packing procedures I have ever dealt with. I hope you people really, really like them… cause they are a ROYAL pain in the butt to pack. x.x