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Different strokes for different folks. I think it's the same as studying, music without words like classical and a good chunk of OSTs (think Hanz Zimmer, Jeremy Soule, Howard Shore, etc.) are better for staying focused because they lack words that can be distracting while you're thinking or reading.

Personally I listen to whatever I feel like at the time; the aforementioned classical, OSTs (Video game soundtracks are really intense and help me with that "I got to get shit done" feeling), pop, rock, metal, Irish folk music (idk why, I just like it), whatever I'm in the mood for.

Otherwise, if I'm doing mindless stuff that feels like a grind I'll listen to podcasts or twitch VODs, helps keep my focused instead of mentally dozing off.

>>3149885
a lot of power, folk and progressive, symphonic metal man good taste everywhere

>>3149885
I can't draw without music. I go mad.

>>3149984
share some of those intense vidya osts, please

>>3149997
you should try Binding of Isaac, Rebirth, Afterbirth and Antibirth OST's, they're bretty good

>>3149885

I like to listen instrumental stuff like Bonobo, Lorn, Catching Flies, Trentemoller, Emancipator, etc.

It's not like words distract me though.It's just my personal preference. I also like to listen podcasts while drawing.

I have always thought that the whole "music disrupts your work " is for those old folks that didn't have any multi-tasking skills.

>drawing with music
NGMI

>>3149885
Always JP Jazz or JP Jazz fusion. Sometimes light piano stuff if I'm drawing early in the morning with a coffee or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoCK731IC9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV8tQmtG3dE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOekWuzk3o

>>3150032
wikihow artists have gotten better, nice

>>3149885
No but I listen to Jordan Peterson conferences. Does that work?

>>3150097
if you have a video on the side that needs actual though to it when watching, you're not getting anything out of it and it might have effect on your drawing.

>>3149885
Earlier I said I listened to loud breakcore while drawing.
Well, I stopped, and while the other sounds are still bothersome they're actually less distracting than the music used to be.
By now I almost regret having any music on my computer. It's not a music device, everything I do on a computer is better done in silence.

>>3149885
This is the greatest pic of all time. Can I save it?

>>3149885
Recently Coil - what a cool group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV35ZpflPtI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XGX_1zdsXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8XsjRfcMf8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUj1OJREb3s
This album is also perfect for drawing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1tQLhGeDAg&t=2416s

>>3149885
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sqMNHZxjI

>>3150044
The first one is really relaxing!
Thanks, anon.
If you have more music like that, please share.

>>3149997
I don't have any of the specific track names, sorry, but the ones I had in my mind were from the Elder Scrolls games, Halo, Final Fantasy (most boss's themes are good shit), Shadow of the Colossus, Legend of Zelda, Super Smash Bros,Kingdom hearts, etc.

Fighter games, FPSs, RPG/JRPGs, Action, and the occasional puzzle game are good places to look if you want to make a playlist.

>>3150157

>>3149885
>http://momori.animenfo.com:8000/listen.pls

i just listen to old Bombcasts

music's too distracting most of the time. If someone wants to sit for a portrait I'll listen to music they want, but if I could I'd just listen to bombcasts too...

I drew this while listening to the entirety of The Pinkprint by Nicki Minaj because she didn't like any of my music

>>3149997
new tab : youtube : yuzo koshiro

>>3149997
Shinobi 3 Return of the ninja master.... my favorite one .

>>3149885
Usually I listen to stuff with lyrics when I'm doing some more automatic things, like rendering or detailing.

When I actually (try) to draw from imagination or really practice my go to stuff is Furi soundtrack and similar stuff, I accidentally conditioned myself to instantly think about drawing when hearing these.

Also can't draw without hearing something, I get way too distracted by anything.

>>3150278
>>3150307
you should check this out to , for a while i thought he made the shinobi 3 ost.

Movie OSTs
Mad max Fury Road is great
Atomic Blonde OST
Berserk 97 OST ( and the 3 Movies OST , also amazing )
Jhon Wick OST has some good songs
Ghost In the Shell OST ( both the new movie and anime ost )
etc etc ...you get the idea
Also a lot of my personally picked music

>>3150321
And also all JoJo osts

>>3150321
Don't you ever listen to like... music? By musicians?

>>3150032
I could listend to that 1 hour version of Lorns Acid Rain no problem , its amazing

Loomis you heretics:
https://youtu.be/tvfg0iLnzsw?t=8

>>3150334
yes and if you actually looked at these OSTs its not just instrumentals , GiTs and Atomic Blonde and Jhon Wick OST is a SONG playlist , these movies have bunch of song following the same theme so Its easier to jsut play OST instead of searching songs one by one , also what makes songs better than just pure instrumentals ? For me instrumental can be better for drawing than songs most times

>>3149885
what the fuck is going on in this image

>>3150351

Feng Zhu challenging KJG to a gesture battle... Didn't go so well

The best stuff I've made was in silence, non-music tracks are good too like eight hours of hearing a river running and birds singing in a forest on youtube.

>>3149885
Mostly instrumental stuff. I've been listening to a lot of "lo-fi hip hop" lately since it's easy to find and I don't have to keep switching playlists. It's breddy chill.

Depends on what I'm drawing/what mood I'm trying to convey. I feel like music shines in the sketching phase when you need that energy/gesture.

Machines/dystopian:

https://youtu.be/5pdH3v0nZ-w
https://youtu.be/0e4EjeCEbHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdoyZLrhAH0
https://youtu.be/TtaUC3qCo8c

Battles/ giants/ fights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OlcJzin3LE (highly recommend this one)
https://youtu.be/Mm0YmRHdyz4
https://youtu.be/8WblP-uRQ_U (no low energy types allowed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqzpYZMB1X8

Paranormal/ Odd/ tacky:

https://youtu.be/V81DlvZkxGE
https://youtu.be/w6Qn_JB9I_8
https://youtu.be/0P6ORMCpZDU

>>3149885
Mostly a ton of instrumentals, piano covers and France Musique.

https://youtu.be/saAP5tPpTqU

Podcasts, J-pop, and K-pop for mindless rendering; silence, synth pop instrumentals, jazz fusions, or instrumental hip hop/lofi for more intensive drawing.

>>3149885
Theres a 2hr pink floyd album on youtube. I listen to it in order to gauge 2hrs of study time

I listen to anything without words. Mainly OSTs and classical but recently I've noticed that I actually do better when I work in silence. I've started to listen but at a very low volume.

>>3149997
Killer Instinct
https://youtu.be/cRmwFBK0cyk

Susumu Hirasawa. A.k.a, the composer for the original Berserk anime.

>>3150681
he cute

>>3149885
Lo Fi Hip Hop and Jazz

>>3150681
I love everything he has done, even his really early stuff from Mandrake is god tier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88DmWN61VE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZmxV1SdfDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1qzfB7YEZY

>>3150681
fantastic taste.

>>3150685
Same here, I'm tired of looking for new music all the time, lofi is effortless to find and doesn't distract much when drawing

>>3149885
I love absolutely everything about this image.

>>3150356
Wtf is a 'gesture battle'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEMcm59XCS4

>>3150831
I fight between 2 artists as they duke it out with quick sketches. Feng was just too slow for KJG.

>>3150356
>>3150831
>>3151018

To be honest, why would you challenge a autistic savant that's known from conjuring everything from thin air?

>>3151022

He has to prove the honor of his school somehow. What better way to do it than defeat a literal God?

I've read music without vocals or just background music or white noise can help you stay focused. I have pretty bad adhd and staying focused/studying is agony, since I started listening to downtempo I've gotten a lot of studying done and it hasn't been all that bad.

I get a lot of creative ideas when I listen to my favorite songs but during the process of drawing I more so mindlessly doodle than focus on the drawing, so it can be distracting as well as inspirational.

I'd suggest downtempo, lofi, classical, ambient.

>>3151022
It didn't happen it's a fanfic /ic/ like to imagine so they can masturbate on Feng imaginary "defeat"

>>3149997
>>3149885
Right now, this is helping a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugo6ASPVu9g

Music is the best and the worst thing I've ever found to help me draw.

>>3150787
Thank you! He's a big inspiration for me in general.

>>3149997
Dark Souls 1 OST

>>3151063
It's not fanfic, it's folklore.
Big difference.

[drawing intensifies]

Personally, I feel that music with words become distracting. So I just listen to instrumentals.

>>3153227
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0U_yqcNqR8

Depending on my mood sometimes I've been listening to Blank Banshee, Shinjuku Mad, and Muzak while I work a lot lately. Sometimes when I get in the flow though and it isn't too loud around me I'll turn off the music for a bit.

>>3149885
Once I started working in silence I quit listening to music altogether... rarely I listen to a specific song one or twice and then back to silence.

I Like a lot of new-agey orchestral stuff like Kenji Kawai and Ennio Morricone's soundtracks. Something about the tone and repetition makes them perfect to focus on drawing, and to think in general. And usually I have a hard time starting without music, but once an album finishes I can carry on in complete silence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UygWIybuqU4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5L70BkuKlo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spHZjZV4i3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV_rRxyiW5c

>>3149997
Videogame -> Vagrant story. Ff7. Ff8. Chrono trigger. Chrono cross

Tv/movie -> Game of thrones season 6. Evil dead 1. Blade runner. Alien 1. Thx1138. Jacobs ladder. Nightmare on elm street 1. Eternal sunshine.

>>3149885
Stuff I've been listening to a lot lately.

>Cinematic Orchestra - Motion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NrerWplnts

>Seefeel - Quique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z65PoBoBpA

>Warp Records - Artificial Intelligence II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_lU6VRP8gE

>Ghost in the Shell Megatech Body Co. LTD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWYt-P7yJ1k

Weather Report - Black Market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxISohLjMqY

Every time there's KJG drawing something, the image is different. He does have his favorite themes but shit's never the same. How is it even possible to get that good

The gay kind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ7zp_zyQHA&index=1&list=PLISOFsv1XZS_4pFsODy0_Z7ZmyBEdhkV8

lol fuck you

>>3149885
This may seem a little weird but for me, i listen to Miss May I, Bullet For My Valentine, Slipknot, BMTH or all kind of heavy metal music, it's not disruption me at all, it actually really did make me energetic and help me to concentrate on my work, any other kind of music just make me sleepy.

>>3150109
>Jordan Peterson
>actual thought
of course not

it's usually the mvc 2 ost or sonic for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HczHuO_ch-s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PclYJcdBLRk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBcfjQ1osc4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x25ZmpGCa0I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx90TMgFv94&t=60s

sometimes some 90s music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y1Emb7Jyks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qutUyQqhjdM&list=PL54D6882B076D3531&index=6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Foc3ME3fJ0&list=PL4987CC8F3230C8D3&index=1

Free jazz

>>3149885
nice shop

>>3151063
>that grammar
Feng, go to sleep already.

playlists r my art
https://8tracks.com/desgardes/ghettoblaster
https://8tracks.com/desgardes/7033151
https://8tracks.com/desgardes/when-do-you-end
https://8tracks.com/desgardes/8665390

>>3150831
It originates from here >>/ic/thread/S2637332#p2637663

>>3149885
I used to, but I don't anymore.

Music has become one of the worst narcotics in our society, most people are completely addicted to it, and it is bound to take away some much needed concentration.

I was involved with music for about 12 years, I played all kinds of guitar and piano as well, but now, I'm almost past the binds of music, and I'm only glad I woke up in time to take a much better, much superior activity: painting and drawing.

Remember this: YOU DON'T NEED MUSIC. You're addicted if you can't go one hour drawing without listening to music. People say classical music is good for studying, it doesn't take a toddler to know that's bull; it's noise, noise is bad, and if you can't concentrate at all without said noise, that's because you've been conditioned to the noise.

Fight it. Win.

>>3149885
Serbian nationalist music, of course, what else?

https://youtu.be/23zVj3S5uYE

>>3149984
>Different strokes for different folks.

It's a fact, anon.
Music does cause a distraction.

>>3155309
you sound like a mega autist holy shit

>>3156596

Some people in here really need to get laid

>>3155309
Post work.

>>3149997
Not sure if intense but
https://youtu.be/UCgOVbk1pT0

>>3156616
While I’m outing myself as weeb scum, I admit I like some of yuki kajiura‘s music, which I found through animu. .hack, mai hime, noir, tsubasa, fate, etc.

>>3149885
ehh, i listen to indie pop/rock stuff and chiptunes mainly, sometimes vidya osts... but i think it depends on what you enjoy

most of the times i don't realize that the songs were already over and i was drawing in silence for quite a while

usually listens to Foals, The Cads, Satellite Stories, Last Dinosaurs, Everything Everything, Indigo la End
also this, can't find on yt https://open.spotify.com/album/6ubkREYaFIeKvBK5lMgr7C

>>3155309
Remember this: YOU DON'T NEED TO BREATH. You're addicted if you can't go one hour drawing without breathing. People say classical breathing is good for studying, it doesn't take a toddler to know that's bull; it's oxygen, oxygen is bad, and if you can't live at all without said oxygen, that's because you've been conditioned to the oxygen.

>>3149885
Notice how everyone avoid the question?
That's because they are in denial. Easiest way to find out if it true is have people who listen to music link to a portfolio and then ask are they where they want to be. You will discover two correlations:

1. The more music is used to distract or "calm" themselves while working the more likely they take prescription meds.

2. The more vocal they are about their tastes the less productive they are on a garner scale. The most staunch proponent of music will have the slowest and smallest gains.

Try it. No one will post to disprove these facts. Because they literally can't

>>3149989
Why all progfags think that they music taste it's better?

>>3155045
This but unironically.