jimmy gunn
New Member
I posted this in "my forum" but thought i'd repost it here......
Hi all,
Where to start..... well I'm a 28 year old male with an artistic streak, I always excelled in art but never written word so when I left school I trained and worked as a goldsmith for just over four years, It was the best job I've done so far as I would have to design and make all manor of rings, bangles etc..
after work dried up and the company I worked for started to go under I started work as a chef(in-house catering/Office party's)which was another job I really enjoyed and done for 6 years.
then I found out I was getting made redundant as they were down sizing the canteens as the office was also downsizing its staff.
so I retrained and done a first aid course, door supervisors course and CCTV course to start a new career in security and what a mistake that was I don't know what I was thinking, this job just sucks your soul away, :lol:. I'm not money motivated and would rather been skint than do a job I hate but having two kids is making me have no chose but to continue till I retrain again or find something new.
so taking all this into account has really made me want to think outside the box so to speak.
I've always been artistic as in I was training to be a tattooist but when it came down to the tattooing part I didn't like the feel of the needle in my hand pumping ink into my clients skin, i always had that voice in the back of my head saying "its not like paper one slip and its there forever, no rubbing that out" so I chickened out after doing 3 tattoos which did come out very well in the end but still I didn't like that pressure.
I'm also a sculptor and model painter. I paint highly detailed 28mm scale models that I customize and in most parts sculpt new details to them. Here is an example.
Now when my Girlfriend wanted to paint a design on her nails I did it and didn't think anything more of it, until my sister said that what I do with my models could be adapted to do nails. then she showed me some pictures of 3d nail art and some other really good designs and when I got home I hit youtube to see how it's all done, now i'm waiting for payday to buy my first bit of kit and researching as much as possible.
I've decided that I want to retrain and to do something that I feel I could really excel at and after reading my mini life story above hope some of you could help set me on the right path, like what training courses are best, I live in london and have seen a local 5 day diploma/babtac course which looked good and had good feedback, I'm just not sure where to start, also what would be the best things to buy off the bat? I'm good with a paint and brush but now we're talking nail varnish and makeup, I don't know which ones are the best buys.
thanks in advance for any help.
Jim
Hi all,
Where to start..... well I'm a 28 year old male with an artistic streak, I always excelled in art but never written word so when I left school I trained and worked as a goldsmith for just over four years, It was the best job I've done so far as I would have to design and make all manor of rings, bangles etc..
after work dried up and the company I worked for started to go under I started work as a chef(in-house catering/Office party's)which was another job I really enjoyed and done for 6 years.
then I found out I was getting made redundant as they were down sizing the canteens as the office was also downsizing its staff.
so I retrained and done a first aid course, door supervisors course and CCTV course to start a new career in security and what a mistake that was I don't know what I was thinking, this job just sucks your soul away, :lol:. I'm not money motivated and would rather been skint than do a job I hate but having two kids is making me have no chose but to continue till I retrain again or find something new.
so taking all this into account has really made me want to think outside the box so to speak.
I've always been artistic as in I was training to be a tattooist but when it came down to the tattooing part I didn't like the feel of the needle in my hand pumping ink into my clients skin, i always had that voice in the back of my head saying "its not like paper one slip and its there forever, no rubbing that out" so I chickened out after doing 3 tattoos which did come out very well in the end but still I didn't like that pressure.
I'm also a sculptor and model painter. I paint highly detailed 28mm scale models that I customize and in most parts sculpt new details to them. Here is an example.
Now when my Girlfriend wanted to paint a design on her nails I did it and didn't think anything more of it, until my sister said that what I do with my models could be adapted to do nails. then she showed me some pictures of 3d nail art and some other really good designs and when I got home I hit youtube to see how it's all done, now i'm waiting for payday to buy my first bit of kit and researching as much as possible.
I've decided that I want to retrain and to do something that I feel I could really excel at and after reading my mini life story above hope some of you could help set me on the right path, like what training courses are best, I live in london and have seen a local 5 day diploma/babtac course which looked good and had good feedback, I'm just not sure where to start, also what would be the best things to buy off the bat? I'm good with a paint and brush but now we're talking nail varnish and makeup, I don't know which ones are the best buys.
thanks in advance for any help.
Jim
Edit: just googled Tom Bachik and found an interesting interview, thank you.
