[Transcend Christ]

couldnt pick a thrad that this could fit under, so I made a new thread. Stupid question and pointless thread though. Besides myself, do song lyrics or the background music inspire art? This question came to mind because I'm listening to the Cure's "Lullaby" and it seems like something that'd be fun to draw my concept of. Just wondering if anyone could relate.

[craig]

sure....i think music (an art form itself) can inspire graphic/fine/visual(whatever)
art quite a bit, and vice versa. i'd
like to see your visual interpretation
of 'lullaby'!
often, i find myself thinking of animated
sequences when i am listening to music,
and, again, vice versa...(that is i think
of, or see, a picture or a sequence and
put music to it in my head.

[lotor]

One of my good friends from college and i were talking about how we try to match our music to the type of art we are working on at the time.

If we are doing a crazy piece we pick crazy music and vice a versa.

By the way tell me a little about your name. What does it mean and why did you pick it?
ciao

[chalker]

Once in a while I get inspired, and it always is while I am trying to sleep.. Last night the ideas were popping up in my head, luckile I got a pen and paper next to my bed so I draw my ideas on that.

Costed me till late to finish all the ideas. Further on, inspirations will come up if you go to strange places, see weird movies, or express emotions..

try to be inspired by everyday things

grz

[Transcend Christ]

Craig: As for the visual interpretation, I haven't drawn it out yet...I don't like my art too much and dont believe my stuff belongs on this board...plus I dont have an artpad or scanner.


Lotor: Honestly...I don't really know how or why I picked this as a name.

[Affected]

Chalker: That's me all over, too. It's more of a rule than an exception that I start getting ideas when I try to get to sleep... So if I need to get some design done, I just wait 'til it's late enough and go to bed.

------------------
Affected

Democracy is a lie

http://affected.xs.mw

[CyberArtist]

I don't usually listen to music, or at least I don't really think about the fact that I'm listening to music when I'm doing my art. My mood at the time of drawing it usually my inspiration if anything.

I use music a lot in my game design though. My Unreal levels were heavily influenced by various types of music. NIN, 7th Guest's 2nd cd, Enya, lots of other stuff, all depending on the mood I want each part of the level to show.


------------------
-CyberA(rtist) aka Ben Golus

Cyber...

[Transcend Christ]

Atari Teenage Riot is highly inspirational for me...I just now realized this while listening to their "60 second wipe out." Began working on something new just a few minutes ago because of it..

[Sedone]

I'm taking an AfterEffects class this quarter and after learning how to sync music with animation and all that cool stuff, I'm always thinking about how I could animate to a piece of music.

Hmmm...what's in my CD player right now. Paul Oakenfold's Tranceport. Good shtuff.



------------------
http://sedone.cjb.net

[hennifer]

a cure fan! i listen to the cure while doing just about everything, including drawing. even watching tv sometimes, tho that doesn't work out so well.

[kurisu]

I listen to music when I work, drive, sleep, eat, poop :P

I tend to get strong visions while listening to the right music. Anything from new age to techno to heavy metal to celtic chanting...

Here's a thread with other people's musical tastes while working...
http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum2/HTML/001241.html

-kurisu

[craig]

TC,

Well, if you do get a scanner I would go
for it! You really don't need a pad,
humbly, I would offer that they are a
nice to have but not essential.
What I share next is not meant to
offend, only encourage Only
you, of course, can judge your own
"worthiness" (I say this for lack of
enough vocab to pick a better word)
but I would offer to you
that there are alot of people that
post here (myself included) that need
alot of improvement. I do not necessarily
like everything I do...but that does not
mean that someone else won't like it or
that I won't learn something buy allowing
it to be critiqued. In my humble opinion
the only requirements to post here is a
scanner and desire! I also like to see
the work of other people (regardless of
their experience or competence) because
it promotes thought and discussion....
Anyway, I shall cease the ramble, and
just hope that I have given you some
food for thought and a little encouragement!
Take care!

c

[Transcendence]

The picture that I'm working on now I'd like to scan and post here because I'm having troubles with the person's cheek. But as I said earlier - no scanner. ;\

AS far as my worth in art - I haven't seriously tried drawing anything in around 3 or 4 years. All of you wonderful people have inspired me ;D to try again. So as a result of my trying again - I've been living out of the school's yearbook the past couple days. Hope all of that made sense.

I've obviously changed my nick, btw.

------------------
"Get rid of the ego, observe all your actions as if they were another's, and you will avoid ninety-nine percent of the troubles that await you" - Aleister Crowley

[Fred Flick Stone]

All my work is sound inspired. Music is art and art is music, if you get on the right thread of sound, the image you connect it with will flow like rain...It's all a bit relative when you think about it. Isn't building a car an art form? Making a gourmet cake? Selling a house or a car? In the hands of a passionate, anything is can be art...and when you see someone creating art from their passion, it becomes a source of inspiration whether you like it or not, the brain has already labeled it as such. So yes, music is inspiration, at least to me, but then again, anything is inspiration to me. Just today, I designed an entire lift operating system just watching the way some little kid was scooping sand from the beach. If you are in tune to your mind, anything will help influence the creative juices. You just have to remember you have creative juices and use them, don't borrow them from someone else...where the hell am I going with this...I am going to watch the Lakers lose now...get back to you all soon...

[zapman]

I like to have some music playing well I work.

Sure some words in the songs can lead to artwork.

------------------
ZAPmAn
Digitize Design
art, fart, and be smart.

[ozenzo]

Art is every where....being a musician...of course I use it for inspiration, and vice versa...I use art to inspire new musical ideas ...just to paraphrase something I read from Brahms, he said melodies were everywhere and he was afraid to walk on the off chance he might step on one ,...I would like to change that and say that Art is everywhere and if you aren't tuned to it you may walk rigth past it ,so let everything inspire...whatever it may be!!

[Thorn]

Just thought I'd throw in a bit of trivia. I was watching a documentary one night on something called 'synethesia', which means blended feeling. A lot of creative people have it, apparently. Its where sound is experienced as colour, or colour is experienced as sound. Something to do with how the brain starts to organise itself during infancy into different areas of function, eg. visual, aural, org'l, etc. In some people that process is incomplete, so they have areas of overlap. Kandinsky is one (suspected) example. There was also a major composer, I think it was Bach, who did an entire 'Symphony in Blue'. He colour coded all the notes because that was what he saw in his head when he wrote music.

Anyway. Is it important? I don't know. But it does mean that music for a lot of people can be really important in the creative process. It makes our brains work better.