What do you like listening to while you draw? Favorite music to study too? Art podcasts?
>>2261261
Funky stuff when I want to draw dynamic stuff, and I personally like the whole Air gear soundtracks by the skankfunk team, fucking masterpiece.
Chillstep/lounge stuff when I did my last study was pretty cool.
I even enjoy putting gaming streams sometimes, inspiration may bloom from a cool move/animation, but mostly put music that fits what i'm drawing.
I've been trying to avoid stuff with lyrics lately. Even though I don't feel like I'm distracted, the brain listens to and interprets words whether we notice or not.
Soundtracks generally feel like a good option. I'll usually look up a soundtrack for a movie/game thematically similar to what I'm working on. I was listening to the Fury soundtrack while drawing some WWII stuff and it got me pretty in the mood.
Songs without lyrics or things sung in a forgien language. I've got a classical playlist, an instrumental jazz playlist, a Russian playlist, A German playlist, and Yiddish playlist. The last three contain mostly folk music, common songs from respective regions, and marches.
>>2261272
richard williams said his animation improved when he stopped listening to music while he drew, but i feel like my time is being used so much more "fully" if i can be doing my work AND also learning about cool shit through podcasts
I don't think I'll ever stop doing that.
>>2261261
OP I listen to a couple of animation podcasts (they're not super frequent), and a massive amount of miscellaneous podcasts.
in terms of music, anything that doesn't make me too sleepy and lethargic or too amped up and excited. voila
>>2261272
The way I see it, listening to music is distracting enough to make a marginal detriment to the quality of your work. I'm pretty sure there's plenty of science about people on average being shit at multitasking - and listening to music while drawing is multitasking whether you're paying attention or not, especially stuff with lyrics - specifically lyrics in a language you can understand - and music you really enjoy.
However for many people, not having music can just make them anxious, impatient, and be a greater detriment to their work.
If listening to music keeps you focused longer, even if it is slightly more distracting than without, it's still better off and more productive.
The best option for a middle-ground between having music and being as efficient as you can with that in mind is probably music without lyrics that's mostly ambient, stuff you won't get really into.
This Will Destroy You - Another Language/Tunnel Blanket
>>2261261
Grand Strategy music.
Lament for a Queen per example.
this will destroy you or god is an astronaut. no vocals, you just get caught up in the music and get carried away. one of the nicest, most peaceful things.
I listen to a bit of everything... Sometimes I'll find a good song and put in on repeat for my whole drawing session that day. Sometimes it'll be an album with good flow. But I find music really helps me keep focus and find the right mood. Some special ones I found:
Árstíðir - Gorgous Icelandic folk music
Moon Hooch - Funky jazz fusion (self-titled album is best)
Reign of Kindo - Jazz / Indy / Rock? "Nightingale" is a great track.
Soen - Progressive metal, "The Words" is particularly haunting.
James Blake - "Retrograde", alt R&B, soulful & moody
Ben Watt - "Hendra", acoustic w/ guitar
Whatever's most relevant for the character at the moment.
Though it's more like a certain music inspires me to draw a particular character at a moment.
Alot of Electronic music gets me going, but if I'm actually drawing something related some metal is always nice.
>>2261272
If you have ADD/ADHD or other concentration problems (like at least a third of everyone here) then don't listen to music, or if you do then just chill flowy music that blends together
I don't really know of any good art podcasts but I'd like some recs. I don't really want to have to listen to spoken language while I draw, since that makes it harder to focus, but I have enough time to listen to shit at work where I'd like to put some of that towards art related shit.
When it comes to actually drawing and, usually stuff that's calm and drawn out enough for me to be able to draw or study at a consistent pace. Mogwai is pretty good, and more ambient stuff by Tim Hecker and Oneohtrix Point Never can also be really nice. Especia works, since their lyrics are in Japanese and while they make pop music, it's of a calmer, slow pace reminiscent of 80s music. Really relaxing.
>>2261261
WU TANG CLAN AIN NOTHIN TA FUCK WIT
>>2261261
Depends a bit on mood. Either random podcasts (history stuff lately), or chill/ambient/house electronica. It isn't overwhelming with the sounds, but provides a nice bit of background.
prog rock, psy, trance, ambient synth, etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OofUj_TNgrc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q26LR5SJ2jU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wnfygDSgQE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rwNe2QXwrU
>Tim Hecker
>Sleep
>Aphex Twin
>Wolves in the Throne Room
>OM
>Deafheaven
>The Caretakers
Anyone likes these too? I feel music without lyrics is best.
>>2267313
pretty much. check out Burial, Oneohtrix Point Never, Four Tet, Jacaszek, Venetian Snares... wait Deafheaven? Well metal is fine too, personally I'm into Cattle Decapitation, Satanic Warmaster and Burzum atm
>>2261261
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E3znZoFnN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP21dV5mEfI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj58tmc-emY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuJqUvBj4rE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmULbKYNYRA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUja5B8ei2U
>>2261261
Those homework edits of Nujabes songs work well for me since I studied to them a lot in high school.
>>2267986
>nujabes
WHY IS IT THAT I ALWAYS IGNORED THIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anLNT_R7IKY&index=83
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A2N_xuNr5E&index=74
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGCmKwAvhVg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A49P2HAyZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VONMkKkdf4
When I have nothing in mind I listen to soma fm (defcon radio). They play some good ambient /chill music that helps me relax and focus.
>>2267679
>Venetian Snares
How are you able to draw while listening to VSnares? I mean it's ace but just too distracting for drawing imo
:3
https://soundcloud.com/norman-nodge/here-comes-some-house
/mu/ here
So much great taste ITT.
>>2274587
thanks /mu/
>>2261261
wont lie it but this this is so catchy and i listen to it while drawing porn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vFXCDDEYMU
>>2267986
beautiful thanks for this
>>2261261
Trance fm or New Retro.
>>2276230
Samefag.
Also forgot to mention Tycho and Com Truise.
>>2272869
I don't know, metal is more distracting in my opinion. My Downfall and Rossz are great and I listen to them all the time while drawing. Maybe the "egg sandwich in your poonani" song isn't exactly appropriate, I will admit
>>2267157
I'm interested in what the diagnosed percentage of regulars here is, and how they approach it. I've got it. 4chan and art are both great distractions.
Also, what are you talking about? I listen to music while doing nearly everything.
What I listen to depends on the mood. Usually jazz, jazz-influenced music, or podcasts; chill ones if I'm chill, more frantic ones if I've taken my stimulants/am panicked or angry and needing to get that out of me on paper. Jazz is good because I was once a musician and I can put it on a loop once I've found something I like: usually it's some of the more out there stuff, so my attention can jump between figuring out the time signature/following different rhythms or melodies and how they interact and doing the same visually, in my art.
I am still pretty bad, though, so I don't know.
>>2267272
this ^100
nujabes, dj okawari
Alright, now I know that for a lot of people, having background noise feels essential. That said, I highly encourage people to give total silence a shot.
Next time you begin a long-ass drawing session, make the effort to focus through the first hour and a half or so. In my case, after the hour and a half of silent drawing, my brain enters a higher level of focus, and before I know it, I've cranked out eight hours of work nonstop in total silence.
>>2261261
EMIYA on repeat.
>>2276957
This, I love listening to music but the few times I've worked in silence I've got so much shit done in half the time
Enigma. Do my best paintings and shit to Enigma. Such transcendent music. Way ahead of its time. Look them up.
I like more mellow stuff when I draw, almost nothing with lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0d8K-Zphs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_y4fjMg55I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6vAshugEc0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xgqDQa792s
Sometimes stuff like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D7vbuo7zCo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnijc0YfD9k
>>2276957
>>2276966
I really should, but I have a hard time just getting going without any background noise. The music seems to help me loose myself in what I'm doing.
>>2276980
>loose
Damn it.
>lose
>>2274587
only saying that cause /mu/ has shit taste.
please read their sticky.
>>2276986
Can't we for once just have a nice thread without posturing and pissing contests? Please?
>>2276957
I'm going to try and work 2 hours now without any sound, earplugs on to cancel the noise, will report back!
>>2277007
Ok 2 hours later, I need to try this again in the future, it was interesting:
>At first I was just bored while drawing and all kinds of thoughts came to my mind, school memories etc. all of it irrelevant
>After that I started to focus more and work faster, since I had no music I just played the song I wanted to hear in my head automatically
>After like 20 minutes I had 30-50 minutes of pure focus, completely finished a drawing in what would've taken me like 1 and a half days
>After that I looked at the time and only an hour and 10 minutes had passed
>Somehow lost my focus a bit
>Kept working
>Ended up putting on some music 10 minutes before the 2 hours finished, I just needed it
I'll try again after lunch, I need to git gud at this, but thanks for the suggestion, it will help me a lot in the future I can feel it.
>>2261261
Find calming piano stuff really helps.
Erik Satie - Gymnopedies
Debussy
Joe Hisaishi
Chopin - Nocturnes + Polonaises
Anyone know of stuff similar to this?
WRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIJB-9xeyq8
>>2278405
this sounds pretty cool, hard to draw to though
Know any similar artists?
>>2278410
Not really hard to draw to at all actually. Deafheaven is like Converge but a little more shoegazey, you might like them.
FYI Listening to music or watching videos while studying you prevent learning.
>Music relaxes me, helps me focus
No it doesn't. You're just self hypnotizing, there is no deep thinking to turn lessons into long term knowledge.
>I do better work when listening to music.
No you don't. You do a routine over and over set to music. You don't engage in creative thinking and so your work will always feel uninspired
>>2278420
Don't be such a stiff. I enjoy listening to stuff like instrumentals or game osts, even anime scores when I draw as much as I like listening to real consumer music. It's not bad to let emotions be a part of your art.
why can't /ic/ have the same relaxed sort of cantor between artists that /mu/ has with their musicians?
>>2278422
It doesn't matter what you listen to. If there is distraction in the room even if it is meant to relax, you're deceiving self. You're just going with the flow letting mechanical memory take over and not really thinking about the picture. You're not thinking actively nor concentrating deeply. You basically not taking the study seriously enough to learn anything.
And you listen to weird shit.
>>2278433
Who made you king autist?
>>2278449
You and other autists like you
>>2278460
Sometimes I think this board is caught up in a big sperg race that causes a lot of people with lots of potential to collapse on their own confidence and suffer. I've been posting here since 2008, and I still draw. I drew and studied today. I even have a career foundation. But I can look back and remember being way depressed in ways I wouldn't wish upon anyone, and honestly beyond the many professionals that do browse and communicate through /ic/, it could take an example from boards like /mu/ and other groups of creatives on 4chan.
>desu i don't give a damn
>>2278431
Why can't ic for once actually talk about art instead trivial shit?
>>2261261
I listen to Bob Ross.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc3kNOWHXmw
>>2278472
You work hand to mouth and draw to ignore responsibilities and you have a deep fear of any kind of stress. You only come here to feel heard because you suck in real life.
But not to worry you're not alone the world is full of professional like that, like you--grown folks who crumble at the sight of reality and seek refuge in places like this.
>>2278483
I literally haven't posted here until a few days ago for like two months because of retarded armchair psychologists like you.
>>2278492
think of him as one of those homeless guys
screaming about the second coming, ignore him
>>2261261
I listen to tons of things.
Kevin Smith podcasts, documentaries, Game Grumps marathons, audiobooks (right now I'm on "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde), Pandora.
But for most of this year, I've been building a playlist on Youtube for music that I feel is inspiring, powerful or makes me think. It's very difficult for me to find music that fits this extremely high standard that I've made for myself. The first song that inspired me to make this was Lana Del Rey's "Young and Beautiful." The rest of her work doesn't move me like this does, and when I made a channel for it on Pandora, I only get shitty pop music.
Plus, looking for "powerful" or "inspiring" music on Youtube usually brings me to an EPIC music collection, which is either full of generic songs or is just awful.
Here is my playlist if anyone is curious. I hope it makes you feel the same things I feel. If you have suggestions, please feel free to tell me.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAPOx__JvOTpPtE367a7jmzo5iiiO6N-V
>>2278492
That is why I avoid r9k now, it will destroy your life, people there are miserable and negative as fuck.
I've been on quite the Bowie binge right now. Mostly his 60s and 70s stuff.
>>2278492
It doesn't take a psychology degree to see the pussyfication happening. If you can't draw without listening to music or noise, you're a pussy.
>>2278928
>>2261448
give me
>>2278928
>If you can't draw without listening to music or noise, you're a pussy
Well you heard it here straight from some random jackass's mouth folks: If you can't draw without music, you's a pussy.
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>>2262497
names on those podcasts?
