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The knack of painting after graft is not to get bathed and changed straight away(unless your absolutely grafted.) Just a a quick hands and face wash. Put an hour in before you finish for the day . You've got to treat it as the last chore before you finish for the day. Because once your showered , fed and sat down. Your painting table is going to seem half a world away and your paintbrushes as heavy as lump hammers.
I never had a office job or come to think of it one that was completely indoors .
So I can totally get the difficulty in motivating once the heavy lifting is done and your fed and clean and sat aching from the day.
There's a couple of simple motivational tricks for painting when your over faced by the enormity of the task ahead.
The first is to totally clear your painting area.No half finished projects . Nothing but your equipment(paints brushes etc.)
The stuff you've undercoat for a project gets divied into elements/ unit's and everything is put in a box.
You never spend time looking through that full box . You simply open take out the top/first unit your touch .and close the box quickly.(the quicker the better)
Then as mentioned by others break the unit down to groups of around five figures. Only one group on the painting table at a time.put the rest out of sight.( your chore doesn't look so big if there's only five tiny figures on the whole painting table.)
Now theres normally an element of a unit your quite like painting (mg group,command group, hero,etc) this is the last section/ group of figures of a unit you paint. It acts as a goal/ reward for painting the unit.( if you do the bit enjoy first the rest becomes a grind.)
If your stumbling block is skin and hair then don't paint them first.
As quickly as you can paint on the base colours for clothing.(it doesn't matter if you normally paint faces first or get flesh colour on the clothing as you go .you can always touch up tge clothing base colours as you get to them properly.)
Then a base colour for shoes and boots. Do these as quickly as you can.
Once these are done tackle the 'brick wall' of painting.( in this case flesh and hair painting)
As you hit you'll suddenly have a different visual cue as it won't just be a vast area of primed figure with just it's head painted . It'll be a figure of coloured areas that just need a quick touch here and touch there.
Once You've battled through 'five' put them to aside .But somewhere you can see them.And battle the next 'five' an so on finishing with the figures you were looking forward to.
Before you know it you'll have a finished group/ unit off to the side of your painting area. Then you do another speed grab from the project box for the next unit.
Then carry on painting and placing the painted figures together where you can see them and keep the unpainted out of sight. Sooner or later that project box will be empty when you go back to get another unit.
This method distances you from the visual enormity of the task.( which is a mental stumbling block in it's self.) And rewards you with the fruits of your labour as a visual motivation.
The task never looks daunting because theres only ever five figure visually in play on your painting table.
Once You've battled through that first five and they're sat there the next five are a little easier. The more you have finished the more you can see are finished. The less of a chore the five on your painting table seem and infact become.
It works well when I've a commercial projects. The key is NOT to dwell on or in the project box.(Straight in - Straight out- lid on- next.) It's simply only ever five figure reguardless of how many you get through in a day/session Or even How many are in the project box.
That box will be empty sooner than you think and a lot easier than you thought if you dwell on its contents.