“I do a lot, I do a lot, I do a lot of stuff
I like it when, I like it when, I like it when it’s tough”
I’m on a lot of prop/costuming boards, and as a result see the same sorts of questions hundreds of times from hundreds of people. I get frustrated by all of the posts about “can someone send me templates to make BLAH” that come up.
Today’s silly revelation about this: I never understand why people want things to be easy.
Folks want templates, paint lists, illustrated manuals. They want someone to say what material to use, how to mix it, how to apply it. They basically want someone to provide step-by-step guides to make things.
To me, that’s no fun. I like a challenge.
For example: I recently built a snowtrooper costume from a kit. I love the costume, but the build was so uninspiring! It was the first time in 4-5 years that I assembled a kit someone else made, and it just wasn’t interesting. The parts were all assembled and everything was included. I didn’t even need to buy rivets — they were in the box.
That’s awesome in the “I want a snowtrooper to wear tomorrow” sense, but from a builder’s perspective it actually took me *longer* to do than assembling, say, a clone. Why? It couldn’t keep my attention! Since there was no challenge, it just sort of got bumped around.
Now, give me a picture of a thing and a block of clay/plaster/bondo/whatever and I’ll stay up until 4 am working on it.
So yeah, that’s it. Easy is boring, and I get confused why people want easy 
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