More Quick Sketches

Everyone's favorite bat. Just a quick simple version. Really, it was just a gesture of a man with it's arms folded, that i was doing for practice, and I turned it into Batman (because I was bored with the sketch).

Again, another quick sketch in between working two jobs. I try to keep my drawing skills going. Doing music and art, my creative mind is usually split. I figure, 10 to 15 minutes, at the least, should be done a day to keep my art skills up. I'd love to have an hour, or two, or more, if I could. Music is my soul, like art, but it's different when it comes to writing music.

When I sit down at my desk and start writing music, like art, I try to clear my mind of what I've seen and heard, to truly come up with something unique. With music, rhythmically and melodically speaking(when it comes to notes, rhythms, and cord structures) i try to pull from my feelings at the time, rather than a thought. Really, that is what music is, a feeling, one that is embellished on over and over again through out a piece, one feeling leads to another. A rhythm  inspires a melody, vice verse, inspires a feeling (in any order). Words, or lyrics, are where many get confused, i think. I think its impossible to come up with any lyrics before you come up with a beat or melody. You can come up with lyrics, but for it to totally jive with a beat or melody, you have to come up with the lyrics to a particular beat or melody. Rhyming patterns and words might not mesh with whats going on rhythmically with the beat. Then, like always, a beat starts to play, and heads start to nod, and the feeling and words you had before the beat played, seem to leave your head and a new feeling arises, which leads you to different lyrics (Well, atleast it does for me). You're truly not riding the beat, if you are going from a predetermined structure that had nothing to do with the feeling the beat brings.

Back to main topic,  I get so bored with pen and paper, but you got be able to throw lines digitally and traditionally, these days. I started drawing and the new Star Wars movie popped into my head and I tried to visualize a character. They recently had a casting call, in my home city of STL, calling for people ages 18 to 23-25(i think that's right), to play some street tuff characters in the movie, so I came up with one on my own, using that for inspiration. The part I got bored with, is when I got to the light saber. I started thinking of my cpu and photoshop and how i could make this a glowing light saber in it and stopped, due to visualizing a bigger picture. This is definitely one I am going to develop further in photoshop.