Drawing/Writing music

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:59 pm

I have to have something on. Usually it's the TV, and I get caught up watching something and it takes much longer than it should for me to draw (or write or whatever) anything.

There we go. Quoted myself from the other thread.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:18 pm

I can't draw while trying to watch something, even related for inspiration. I can Photoshop as I please, but while drawing it's impossible for me.

Humbug · Post by **Humbug** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:47 pm

I always work best when listening to fantasy music; Celtic, Enya even music from games.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:34 am

I thought this post was about the amount of songwriters/ webcomickers there were... errmmms yeah. I listen to all sorts of stuff.

Axonite · Post by **Axonite** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:13 pm

I usually listen to music while drawing... <a href="http://forum.comicostrich.com/viewtopic ... 3">this</a> sort of stuff. Lately I've been listening to the <a href="http://www.techwebsound.com">"Technicolor Web of Sound"</a> online.

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:45 pm

I HAVE to have music when I'm working. Some kind of quiet, pretty music (current favorites are the Narnia soundtrack and David Arkenstone's Atlantis CD). If I don't have music playing, I'll find myself singing or humming to fill it in.

Which can be very embarissing if someone walks in on me.

CW

Ian Moulding · Post by **Ian Moulding** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:12 pm

Do I listen to music when writing? Oh my my, oh hell yes.

Free special no-prize to anyone who can finish that lyric.

Music of choice:
Tom Waits
Blue Rodeo
Leonard Cohen
Johnny Cash
Cowboy Junkies
Blind Boys of Alabama
Play (But not any of Moby's other emo crap)
The Tragically Hip ("New Orleans is sinking and I don't want to swim")
Elvis 56
Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

And a ton of other stuff I can't remember at the moment. I'm listening to Gustav Holst's The Planets right now; John Williams loves this guy.

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:47 pm

you gotta put on that party dress

Game Misconduct · Post by **Game Misconduct** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:17 am

I put on high-pumping europhoric trancitic techno beats on the player. For some reason I draw faster. Maybe its the high tempo.

Ian Moulding · Post by **Ian Moulding** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:37 pm

ahaugen wrote:you gotta put on that party dress

You win the No-Prize! Tell him what he's won, Johnny!

Nothing. But at least it's free.

Current Music: Sunday Morning Coming Down

Ida · Post by **Ida** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:37 am

I never listen to music when I'm writing, because oh the distraction. Then again, my actual "sitting down and writing the comic" sessions vary in lenght from 2-6 minutes and would probably be classified as "layouting" by most people.

Getting ideas and forming them into stories and dialogue is something I do on the go.

When drawing, however: Hell yeah, do I listen to music! Exactly what I listen to varies a lot but currently, it rotates between J-rock, Madonna, various danish rock bands and anime soundtracks.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:02 am

Ian Moulding wrote: Play (But not any of Moby's other emo crap)

But "Animal rights" wasn't too emo.

Heh. Ian is old skool.

Ian Moulding · Post by **Ian Moulding** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:04 pm

mcDuffies wrote:
Ian Moulding wrote: Play (But not any of Moby's other emo crap)
But "Animal rights" wasn't too emo.

Heh. Ian is old skool.

I'm thinking of 18 and (Shudder) Everything Is Wrong. I haven't heard Animal Rights, and don't particularly want to. Note to Moby - You're 42 years old. It's time to stop acting like a whiny first-year art school student (Art-school students know the ones I'm talking about; The talentless ones who don't want to work at art, but really like dressing in shabby black clothes and talking about the role of the Artist in Society).

And yeah, I guess I'm old skool. Half the stuff I listen to comes out of the late 19th/early 20th century. Skip James is absolutely amazing.

ChibiJess · Post by **ChibiJess** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:32 pm

I write and draw to music. I usually listen to classical or balet. I'm currently listening to the score from Swan Lake - and should be drawing the comic.

My suite mates and I are getting into a music battle - one of them has rap blaring loud enough to vibrate my desk - however Swan Lake's creshendo's have drowned out the rap at several points.

Classical helps me write/draw/plot - rap gives me a migraine.

Doukasou · Post by **Doukasou** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:43 pm

i find listening to german metal helps me draw fight scenes

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:46 pm

Dvorák for the win. Same with Shostakovich.

Ian Moulding wrote:......You're 42 years old. It's time to stop acting like a whiny first-year art school student (Art-school students know the ones I'm talking about; The talentless ones who don't want to work at art, but really like dressing in shabby black clothes and talking about the role of the Artist in Society).

HA HA HA HA! Yeah.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:09 pm

Ian Moulding wrote:
mcDuffies wrote:
Ian Moulding wrote: Play (But not any of Moby's other emo crap)
But "Animal rights" wasn't too emo.

Heh. Ian is old skool.
I'm thinking of 18 and (Shudder) Everything Is Wrong. I haven't heard Animal Rights, and don't particularly want to. Note to Moby - You're 42 years old. It's time to stop acting like a whiny first-year art school student (Art-school students know the ones I'm talking about; The talentless ones who don't want to work at art, but really like dressing in shabby black clothes and talking about the role of the Artist in Society).

And yeah, I guess I'm old skool. Half the stuff I listen to comes out of the late 19th/early 20th century. Skip James is absolutely amazing.

I frankly don't see difference between "Play" and the albums after that: mixed electronics with a lot of old blues clips; Which means that "Why does my heart feel so bad" or "Natural blues" are just as emo as anything on "18".
But that was not the point. The point is, "animal rights" is his HC rock album.

Ian Moulding · Post by **Ian Moulding** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:01 pm

mcDuffies wrote:I frankly don't see difference between "Play" and the albums after that: mixed electronics with a lot of old blues clips; Which means that "Why does my heart feel so bad" or "Natural blues" are just as emo as anything on "18".
But that was not the point. The point is, "animal rights" is his HC rock album.

It might just be that I read the liner notes on 18 and Everything is Wrong, but not on Play.

As for Moby doing rock - That might be interesting. I like his compositions, they remind me a bit of Tchaikovsky's piano compositions. It could be interesting to see what he does with rock.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:05 pm

Ian Moulding wrote:Note to Moby - You're 42 years old. It's time to stop acting like a whiny first-year art school student (Art-school students know the ones I'm talking about; The talentless ones who don't want to work at art, but really like dressing in shabby black clothes and talking about the role of the Artist in Society).

Gawd, that was about 75% of the art department in my high school. We had a multi-credit art program (8 credits, nothing but art all year), and many of the people in there thought they were the most AWESOME people ever for having gotten in. They sat around and were artistic without ever producing anything - up until finals, and then suddenly, it was a rush of crappy, half-assed "art".

(I went into English instead.

)

Oh, and I listen to a lot of instrumental music and movie/game/anime soundtracks when I draw.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:16 pm

I remember, back in province, while I was still in high school, literally all group art projects were failing because most of people liked calling themselves artists but were lazy to get around to actually producing any art. Or coming to the meetings, for that matter.

Edit: Eh, to be truthful, I can't listen to "18" because it makes me depressed. I don't think it's a bad album, tho, and not certainly what I'd call 'emo' (if by 'emo' we consider chiep and overblown emotions, not definitely), it's just an album with overwhelming depressive tones. Moby does like to pick samples from old spiritual and blues, music that is by nature highly emotional and on "18", perhaps, he overdid it, specially on second half. I don't have that problem with "Motel", though.

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