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3 years ago

Sim Really Enjoys the Smell of Paint?

One of my sims, who is an artist, has started expressing a very strange sort of behavior while painting. He will stop every now and then and make the same hand and vocal gestures sims do when they smell really good food, but toward the easel with half-finished work he's doing. The thought bubble which pops up above his head isn't food, it's the paint pallet.

This is something really funny I haven't seen before, despite having played numerous artist sims. This one isn't Erratic, an Art Lover, Perfectionist or Creative Visionary (yet.) He's not even in the painter career so far. Switching households to other sims with easels, none of the others do this, just him.

If paintings start mysteriously disappearing from the house walls, I'm going to suspect that this sim has developed a taste for fine art, in very much the wrong way..

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  • "Kathykins;c-18225819" wrote:
    Is he Inspired when he does this? Just tossing it out there :D I've not seen this particular animation as far as I recall. And I do play a lot of Creative sims. Almost all my sims paint.


    Many of mine do as well, especially since we got the ability to have them paint from reference. I would have to say that virtually all of my sims are skilled painters, photographers, or both. It's a lot more fun having them preserve interesting images and scenes themselves.

    Thus far, I've seen him savor the smell of paint while happy, playful and inspired. He makes a lot of playful mood paintings.

    I've never seen any of my other sims do this while painting either, which is why it struck me as very humorous when he started doing that. His son started painting occasionally when he reached his teens, and he doesn't do it.
  • "SteveBridger;d-1006166" wrote:
    One of my sims, who is an artist, has started expressing a very strange sort of behavior while painting. He will stop every now and then and make the same hand and vocal gestures sims do when they smell really good food, but toward the easel with half-finished work he's doing. The thought bubble which pops up above his head isn't food, it's the paint pallet.

    This is something really funny I haven't seen before, despite having played numerous artist sims. This one isn't Erratic, an Art Lover, Perfectionist or Creative Visionary (yet.) He's not even in the painter career so far. Switching households to other sims with easels, none of the others do this, just him.

    If paintings start mysteriously disappearing from the house walls, I'm going to suspect that this sim has developed a taste for fine art, in very much the wrong way..


    Spouse: Honey, what would you like for dinner tonight?
    Artist: Oh! A Van Gogh sounds great!!! Maybe a Picasso?
  • "PenguinFoop;c-18226017" wrote:

    Spouse: Honey, what would you like for dinner tonight?
    Artist: Oh! A Van Gogh sounds great!!! Maybe a Picasso?


    My! Your sim has expensive tastes ;)

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