The Sims 4 Painter Extraordinaire Aspiration
Painting is a classic skill for my sims. The Sims 4 painter extraordinaire aspiration is one of my most played.
Getting my sims to sell paintings is the easiest way to earn money, so I just love it.
This aspiration has your sims focused on making high-quality art and earning the painting skill!
Muser Bonus Trait
When you choose an aspiration when a sim ages from child to teen or when you create them in CAS you’ll get a bonus trait. For the sims 4 painter extraordinaire aspiration your sims are going to get the muser bonus trait.
This trait’s description reads “Muser sims get better boosts to their skills when they’re in an Inspired mood.”
This is great for gaining the painting skill quickly! To get inspired just take a thoughtful shower before you start painting.
Best Traits for The Sims 4 Painter Extraordinaire Aspiration
If you want to make sure that your sims have a great time with this aspiration you should think about their traits that can help. Here’s some good traits for this aspiration:
- Creative: Sims with the creative trait are going to get inspired moodlets more often which can be used to get the painting skill faster.
- Perfectionist: Sims with the perfectionist trait are going to spend slightly longer on their paintings. However, their work will come out higher quality which is helpful when trying to make masterpieces.
- Muser: The muser trait is the bonus trait you get when you choose a creative aspiration. This trait gives a boost to your creative skill gains when a sim is inspired!
- Creative Visionary: This is a reward trait purchased with satisfaction points. This costs 2,000 points and will give your sims a higher chance to paint masterpieces which is so helpful for this aspiration.
If you truly want to max your efforts you should add some fun lot traits to your sim’s house as well:
- Natural Light: This trait is great because it gives your sims a boost to painting skill gains, and sims can get an inspired moodlet when painting.
- Sunny Aspect: This trait comes with The Sims 4: City Living and gives a random moodlet at 6PM each day. This is either energized, happy, or inspired. The inspired moodlet can be used to master painting!
- Home Studio: This lot trait comes with The Sims 4: City Living and helps your sims gain the painting skill faster. Plus, with this lot trait sims will create higher quality items which can help with masterpieces.
Stages of the Aspiration
There are four levels of this aspiration for your sim to work through. Each level has tasks you need to complete before you can move onto the next and every time you complete a task your sim will get satisfaction points!
Stage One: Ill At Easel
- Start 3 Paintings While Inspired
The ideal mood for gaining the painting skill is inspired, so it makes sense to start all of your sim’s paintings in this mood. All you need to do is get your sim to feel inspired then head to an easel and start painting.
You can even get three easels and just start all three paintings back to back without finishing them right away just to get this part completed.
Here’s some great ways to make your sims feel inspired:
- Take a Thoughtful Shower
- Browse Art on a Computer
- Use Evocative Lemon Incense from The Sims 4: Spa Day
- Go Cloud Gazing
- Research Art Reference on Computer (Painting Career)
- Pluck for Inspiration on Guitar or Bow for Inspiration on Violin
There are dozens more ways your sims can get inspired, with new ones being added every time we get a new DLC.
- Paint for 5 Hours
This is so easy, you literally just need to paint on an easel or on the digitalistic sketchpad for 5 total hours. This doesn’t need to be in a row, just 5 cumulative hours.
Stage Two: Fine Artist
- Reach Level 4 Painting Skill
The first part of this stage is so get to level four of the painting skill. Easy peasy! Gaining this skill is easy and since you’ve already had to paint for 5 hours you’re sim is well on their way.
You can gain the painting skill by painting on any easel or by creating paintings on the digitalistic sketchpad.
If you want to get the painting skill more quickly make sure that your sims are feeling inspired or add the lot traits we talked about easier that boost skill gains!
- Sell 3 Paintings to Collectors or Art Gallery
When your sim finishes a painting you have two options, either use it as decor or sell it. To finish off this task you just need to click on your painting on an easel or in your sim’s inventory and choose to sell it!
Do that three times and you’re good to go!
- Complete 3 Emotional Paintings
Emotional paintings are a fun way to control a sim’s emotions when they enter a room. These are painted when a sim is feeling the emotion of the painting they want to create and they are available for a few different emotions.
Let’s go over ways you can make your sims feel the emotions easily so you can make different emotional paintings:
- Confident
- Brush Teeth at a Sink
- Psych Self Up At Mirror
- Lotus Massage (The Sims 4: Spa Day)
- Angry
- Be Cheated On
- Have The Evil Trait
- Cursed Lot Trait
- Playful
- Take a Bubble Bath
- Eat Silly Gummy Bear Pancakes
- Watch Comedy on TV
- Flirty
- Take a Steamy Shower
- Eat Twin Roses Ice Cream (The Sims 4: Cool Kitchen Stuff)
- Research Pick-Up Lines on a Computer
- Sad
- Have a Family Member Die
- Ignore Social Need Until Sad
- Get The Sad Clown Painting
Once your sim has the proper emotion you can head to an easel and choose to create the emotional painting. Once they’re done you can place them on a wall and choose enable emotional aura so they can impact the sims in the room.
Stage Three: Brushing With Greatness
- Achieve Level 6 Painting Skill
As you continue to work through this aspiration you’ll naturally gain the painting skill. Just keep creating paintings on the easel or digitalistic sketchpad!
- View or Admire 3 Paintings at a Museum
This is a pretty lame part of the aspiration but it takes almost no time, so easy. Head over to any museum lot in the game, there’s one in Oasis Springs and Willow Creek.
When you get to a museum you just need to find a painting on the wall and choose view or admire and it will satisfy this need. This can make your sim feel inspired! The admire options appears for sims with the art lover trait.
- Complete 10 Excellent Paintings
There is a quality ranking on pretty much everything your sims craft and it’s important to know how you can get higher quality items.
To create excellent quality paintings you need to know a few factors that go into higher quality pieces. The first thing is your sim’s level of the painting skill. A sim with a higher painting skill will naturally create higher quality items.
You also need to pay attention to the mood your sim is in when they are painting. Ideally, your sim will be feeling inspired which is the best mood for painting. You should also pay attention to their mood. A hungry, tired, smelly sim isn’t going to do their best art.
Finally, you can add certain traits to your sim or the lot to make the quality of your sim’s art higher. The best one you can get is the creative visionary reward store trait.
This trait is purchased for 2,000 satisfaction points from the reward store. The trait makes your sims have a higher chance of crafting high quality items!
Since the size of the paintings don’t matter, just do small ones to get this done faster. The larger the painting, the longer it takes!
Stage Four: Painter Extraordinaire
- Achieve Level 10 Painting Skill
To complete this aspiration your sim is going to need to max out the painting skill. This will take time but since you’ve already created so many paintings you’ll probably be close.
If you want to cheat this instead you can just use stats.set_skill_level major_painting 10 to max the skill.
Creating a masterpiece is the best because they sell for so much more money than any other quality painting. To finish off this aspiration you need to have created 5 masterpiece quality paintings.
This works just like excellent paintings and has the same factors to consider. Make sure your sim is feeling inspired and has all their needs met before starting the paintings.
Make sure your sim has level of the painting skill and give them some good traits. I recommend the home studio lot trait if you have The Sims 4: City Living and the creative visionary reward store trait to improve your odds.
Expressionistic Reward Trait
When a sim finishes the sims 4 painter extraordinaire aspiration they are going to be given the expressionistic reward trait. It’s description reads “Expressionistic sims have captured the essence of feeling, and can create highly emotional works of art regardless of their actual mood.”
This means that your sims are able to craft emotional paintings without ever being in the right mood. Doing this is nice because you don’t have to risk death with being too playful or angry just to make them.
