What do you all listen to while drawing? For a long while I've simply put on music, but as of late I've been trying to listen to podcasts or audiobooks, preferably ones that'll teach me something as I sketch.
Anyone else do this, or have good stuff to share?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMgDyd2E6_8
First and last track particularly
Be sure to listen to loud music that is as distracting as possible, podcasts with annoying people talking loudly or documentaries where you keep looking at the other screen to see what's going on.
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>>2302431
freaknomics, hellointernet, things you should know and tom lehrer
because pseudo intellectualism.
>>2302452
I find that when I do art, there's this extra bit of my mind left unoccupied. It wanders off on its own and I will just start thinking about other things/getting distracted. Putting some background noise on fills up this little void and I am able to focus. Obviously anything really visually engaging is a bad idea, and certain stages, like idea generation, require silence.
But of course, art for me is just work. Perhaps you are some kind of uber art genius that needs every last brain cell invested in his masterpiece.
Beksinski listened to classical music while he painted. Are we missing out on some better version of beksinski because he listened to some tunes?
Faye Wong has been all I've listened to while working the past few months, real nice, anything with English is distracting to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUys-8edi20
>>2302431
Tycho, Trevor Something, Futurepolice, Com Truise
>>2302431
I've been listening to various channels on Pandora and a lot of Anne Briggs lately. I don't like listening to audiobooks while drawing. I can do podcasts because they don't require as much of your attention.
gy!be, mogwai, spritualized, onra, sufjan stevens, ratatat, motfd, deadly syndrome, baths
just all the shit
I only draw during Real Nigga Hours so I listen to what every man should only be listening to during Real Nigga Hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTGQrA5HHIU
music enhances drawing cause it evokes emotions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuJqUvBj4rE
>>2302479
>Trevor something
BASED
I-YI-YI-YI
>>2302431
The only podcast that I'm obsessed with is Drunken Peasants, they're fuckin' hilarious. As for music I like psychedelic techno such as: Astrix, Infected Mushroom, LazerHawk, Mega Drive, and Shpongle.
>>2302485
https://youtu.be/d51ptkA60h4
Nigga please
>>2302431
Pandora
>Twerk Radio
>J.Cole Radio
>Paradise city Radio
>Buckethead Radio
>Top Hits/Pop Radio
>2pac Radio
Put that shit on shuffle radio stations and you are good to go
>>2302879
It should really be called the "The Drunken TJ Podcast", because Scotty parrots everyone and Ben's input is mostly comprised of disgusting mouth noises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsgAsw4XGvU
I usually listen to these videos while drawing, I enjoy absolutely all of them and I repeat the videos several times.
Sometimes they're distracting but they make me feel comfortable.
In terms of music I usually use climatic music like the intros of Black Metal albums, like The Corpses Sink Forever by Carach Angren or Deathspell Omega's Si Monumentum Requires Circumspice, any Burzum album works too.
Celtic music and girl's acoustic covers from all around youtube also help me relax a lot.
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>>2302431
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5fts7bj-so
>>2302431
Varies, but usually I'll listen to music without lyrics if I'm drawing from imagination, since I can't focus properly if there's lyrics. If drawing from reference or life, documentaries/podcasts usually.
>>2302452
Distraction is often not too big of an issue. Sure you can benefit from removing distractions in the early stages of an illustration or when designing, but there's parts of drawing and illustrating that can actually be very mindless and simply time consuming.
If I listen to educational shit it distracts me enough from drawing that I draw worse and distracts me enough from listening that I learn less. And this might come as bad news to some but the average person can't multitask worth shit, you're probably getting a little less out of both activities doing this. There've been plenty of studies on multitasking that can confirm this. I think the only exception when it comes to educational shit is if you're doing what they're teaching about while they're teaching about it, but even then "drawing" is so varied that listening to a podcast on color theory while you do thumbnail sketches won't help you any.
Still, if music or podcasts helps you focus it's probably better off to distract yourself a tiny bit than be anxious and impatient which will probably lead to worse fuckups. Just saying, in terms of the average person it's inhibitive, and you're probably not as exceptional as you think. Ideally, you want music that occupies as little of your brain as possible, so either no lyrics or stuff you don't understand. You might think you don't pay any attention to the lyrics but your brain does even if you don't retain it, you can't switch it off that easily.
>>2302922
Replace Scotty with Paul tbchwy senpai
Comfy/Chill stuff. Mostly soundtracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM6eZJRurFk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-0moXCUwQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyOR3tAUCiQ
>>2302431
I actually like to watch sitcoms and sketch portraits of the characters - since they are moving around so much, I find that you have to rely heavily on construction along with observation.
>>2302431
I don't listen to music, I find it kinda distracting. Sometimes while I'm drawing/painting I listen to Dave Rapoza interviews, Jeff Watts videos, etc. on youtube.
But I'm looking for more music like the one that plays here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9XtlfpgAxM
It's inspiring and soothing at the same time.
Burzum
That or silence
>>2302431
Radiolab. Best podcast i've ever heard.
>>2305128
this, or This American Life.
or any of NPR's news programs.
