being in love with a fictional character will make u produce art u didnt know u were capable of

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[if ur part of the "fiction doesnt affect reality" crowd: please fuck off lol]

why are 99% of crochet animal patterns just vague blobs. cmon. i know we can do better as a community. have you seen the shit the national parks service put out? yeah, the NPS. there are grandmas on the frontlines of the most formally accurate critters this side of a 3D printer. we can do better than orb with two triangles sewn on. we can make a more accurate cat. that is NOT what a turtle looks like. step AWAY from the axolotl

Thinking about starting music.

hey so I'm thinking about maybe starting to produce music! I am a complete beginner with minimal experience in piano and electric/acoustic guitar and no expirience with any softwares in the musical section,

i would like some advice and maybe people could link some tutorials. I am going for a similar production style of Femtanyl if anyone knows who that is lol. Like breakcore/electronic ig? Once again if anyone would give me advice in the reposts or comments that would be great, thanks!! ^_^

"just google it" "do your own homework" "google is free" "find it yourself the information is out there"

but they are. they are asking people who have that information, for the information. they are doing their homework by reaching out and asking people questions. just because it's not typed on a search bar, doesn't mean it's any less of putting an effort to finding things out.

like i'm sorry people in the past refused/ridiculed you when you asked them for help. doesn't mean you have to be like them tho. why is learning through human interaction rejected in favour of isolated learning?

finding a new podcast to listen to is so fucking hard when you have specific ass taste and are scared of things that might disappoint you

experiment with music phrasing

just watch YouTube about phrasing

Chilli is still a WIP I want to add a BG, maybe a blanket for him to sit on too ^^

balletcore 🩰 ✨

One side effect of studying piano pedagogy is that whenever I watch a show or movie or video where someone is sitting at the piano and they're supposed to be a relatively experienced musician, I am obligated to be insufferable about their hand and body position. Girl, how are you going to get the range of motion to play octave chords fortissimo when your elbows are glued to the side of your ribs. It's your knees that are supposed to be just under the edge of the keyboard, not your bench. Those fingers are just too flat for the scale passages that the soundtrack says you're playing. Is that a slouch-

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. People need to become more comfortable with making bad art, and people need to be more comfortable with accepting that their art isn’t good. I’m sorry, but sometimes art looks objectively bad (at least as far as the artist is unable to conceive of their artistic vision), and instead of constantly handwaving negativity and brushing critical feelings under the rug people need to develop skills to cope with and progress from those feelings. The VAST majority of art ‘advice’ I see pass across my dash is really just art positivity, where the takeaway isn’t any valuable information, but rather an admonishment for not being kind enough to themselves and corrections you can make to your behavior. It sidesteps the problem ‘I am unfamiliar with art’ and jumps right to addressing the symptom ‘I feel bad I’m unable to create what I want to create’. Instead of working to improve artistic skill and familiarity with creative tools, it tells the reader that they need to work to re-think their conception of artistic quality. There should be space for both of those conversations but they don’t exist to the exclusion of the other. Most art spaces online attempt to create an encouraging space through enforcement of post-over rules and discouraging critical feedback, but inadvertently creates incentives for people to write insubstantial filler so they can post their own work which discourages people who’s art isn’t as impressive or noteworthy because all of their feedback is platitudes. Art communities are consumed by a fear of alienating beginners, but falsely believe that beginners will be alienated by critical feedback and don’t realize that most beginners feel alienated by stagnation and uncertainty. Feeling bad at a skill feels much better than feeling as if you are incapable of improving at that skill, and the shallow insistence of magical thought as a substitute for practice is a self fulfilling prophecy which will make it so.

silly guy producer diaries ep 3

if you cant tell pitch from just sound, this website records your voice and then tells you what pitch you are singing in! It is very helpful to find notes for melodies if you are not good at reading music like i am From what the site says, there is no way they can store your data or your recordings! So it is safe to use from what i can tell

gonna maybe play devil's advocate on the depiction vs glorification discourse and bring up how writers letting you know how much they Don't Condone a thing is a really really easy way to break the immersion of the story, and i'm being subjective, but it often comes off a little patronizing. (does anyone else remember hearing "the grinch had an awful, evil idea" as a kid and thinking "we get that you want us to know it's bad, please just say what it is")

this is absolutely not to say writers don't simultaneously Tell A Story and Make A Point all the time, but it's a skill in itself. demanding that every story has a practicable Moral will just get you a lot of beginning authors cramming preachy schlock into their writing, entirely disproportionate to the number of those who set out to tell a story vs those who set out to philosophize and/or proselytize

Improving independently on music production is nearly impossible, watching tutorials is helpful but emulating someone else's work doesn't make you a better artist here; it might help in getting to know your DAW better and having more resources to use as a creative outlet, but eventually you get tired of the same template with every idea you want to build on. Challenging yourself with exercises is a good way to improve and diversify your sound repertoire but I don't know where to find anything like that except from being thrown random ideas at me by friends.

If anyone can help me find resources for improvement online (unpaid since I'm a broke uni student), please let me know!

Something I started the other day, jersey club fairy vibes 🧚🏿‍♀️

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