Even the Ball Lightning build has Frost and Fire built into it, everywhere I look. I don't want those elements. I just want Shock. Does every powerful Sorc build require all 3 elements to succeed at high levels now? Why would they create that? That's the opposite of build diveristy if we have to use certain elements and skills to get deep into the game. It's nonsensical & frustrating.
In absence of an Artistic Existential Crisis flair, am calling out to the types in the post title.
I'm a casual painter for maybe 3 years now with a group of 3 that meets regularly to play & paint minis for our games in our no-airbrush space. Never did anything with this hobby or medium before that. It's been a process, sometimes requiring a break to mentally refresh.
I've generally had a good attitude of Land of Good Enough, not expecting myself to do what many of the posters here do all day, every day. But I'm wondering: What IS a reasonable expectation in general from a casual hobbyist who hasn't watched tens of hours of YT tutorials, and doesn't use an airbrush?
If you're that guy, it'd be great to see some examples or your best/favorite work.
I've done some great (to me) figures that were a labor of love, and even if they pissed me off greatly many times and/or took forever, I love looking at them because I'm proud of what I did. That's not sustainable for every figure. I don't have that fortitude.
And I'm just not feeling either the labor or the love as much these days, even for my fave figures, because my results are so consistently disappointing these days. Kinda burned out & wondering if there's a way for me to create stuff that's still (reasonably) lovely, with both the tools and skills I have, without beating my brains out. Looking to see what other brush casuals are doing.
I hope I'm asking in the right place. We've tried figuring this out ourselves to no avail and need some expert insight.
Our pastor is super hard of hearing after a serious illness. Pretty much deaf in the right ear, maybe 15% on the left. We can hear him just fine, but he can't hear the music well enough when he leads song service & sometimes drifts off key, and we haven't been able to find a solution for him. I tried a small wireless mic & desktop speaker, the kind used by teachers in a classroom, but it badly distorted the music and was a fail.
The organ is just an old floor organ, not a pipe organ or anything. It & the whole sound system are very old. Like original from the 1960s. The organ has its own built-in speaker, but he can't hear it directly, as it's to his right (deaf ear). The organ is hard-wired to a huge dinosaur speaker on a pedestal to his left. We've turned the speaker toward him rather than the pews, which has helped only slightly, but the problem remains.
There are a few hand microphones from back in the day when groups would sing or the kids did their lines for the Christmas pageant or whatever, and one mic at the podium. That sound comes out of 1960s speakers built into the ceiling, which is about 1.5 stories up. (Sorry, I don't know the dimensions & guessing. There's a small upstairs classroom in the back that's under the same roof line.)
There is no way to hook the organ up to any other kind of speakers. I haven't been able to find a modern Bluetooth or even hard-wired solution that would just plain amplify the organ's sound and put it in front of him on his podium, which would of course have to be compact.
If we just stuck one of the hand mics behind the organ speaker panel, would that cause more sound to come from the other speaker, or cause feedback and/or distortion? Is there some modern mic we could put on the organ speaker to broadcast to a wireless speaker at the podium? I haven't been able to find anything like that besides that little classroom mic. Everything seems to be geared toward full-on DJ and seminar systems. I have zero idea of where else to even start and what's a fully terrible idea. None of us have any expertise in these matters.
I'm trying to figure out the simplest, most cost-effective way to do this. It's always been a humble country church attended by farmers & blue collars without much for the offering plate, so there's no way to replace or update any of it. This is just me trying to find out something workable in a reasonable price range to donate myself.
Sorry for the very long post, and I thank you deeply for any direction you could provide.
ETA, sorry, failed to include that he already has good hearing aids and those levels are as good as he can get. Without the aids, the one side was probably 5%.