Depth in miniature, and a try at a new ability

(i hope that woman doesn't mind that i share here one of her videos, i actually like her a lot, she sounds kind and friendly, and i enjoy her close filmed tutorials)

Around seventeen minutes :

"To inspire yourself to paint is just quite easy, just grab your brush and start to paint, that is actually the only thing you have to do, start to paint... ...pack away all your stuff in one big box, and just grab one miniature, only one, and start to paint it, that's the only thing you have to do, each journey begins with a first step, and don't be affraid that you're not that good (at first) as any brilliant painter... ...don't fear that stage, just practice makes a good painter."

I was watching that video this morning, and some common words she spoke, stroke me as a deep inspirational truth, it sounds so casual, but here in a video about painting miniatures we can find some great words of wisdom, that can be applied to anything you want to do, to try, to start, all start by daring placing a first step, this is just so true.
I started painting miniatures because it was a present from two friends, they offered me a box of those (it's a long time they are into this and i was just watching from afar), it's an expensive hobby, that i wouldn't be able to support, and again the background of these is sci-fi so my mind doesn't take it seriously, but i dived into it, into the handwork, trying to forge a talent for painting, out of respect i wanted to do my best, i watched and watched hours of theory, and even if shaky at first i launched myself into taking a brush and paint, it is very time consuming, for now it takes three or four hours to me to paint one character, but though it seems a geeky passtime from afar, that activity has some great unsuspected traits, you have to watch the miniature carefully, under every angle, you mount it, and you get slowly acquainted to it, you get to know every detail, every crack, every recess, one character starts to have a personality, a temper, for you, it becomes intimate, personal, as you get to choose the colors and the different parts (like guns and tools) that will give him his attitude in the end, you place the shadows and the light, on the armor, on the skin, then the choice of color is important, for it to be well assorted and pretty, and at that step i spend quite a long time, rotating the figurine in my hand and imagining, assembling paterns in my mind with different colors trying to find an homogenous look for it, it's a lot like painting a canvas, you have to decide were you want the eyes of the viewer to wander on your work, what you want to pop out on your miniature, all this makes it complex, and finally highly intellectual, even kind of emotional, well that's how i sense it and i like it that way.