02/03/2024
I think I figured out a way to draw music... imperfectly...
Let me explain...
I was feeling a little sentimental today and I wanted to draw my old dog, Cassie. I chose to listen to a couple of albums and draw using the weird sets of rules I've been using lately. It didn't exactly turn into Cassie but I liked it anyway.
I used four different materials. Ink pens, colored pencils, markers, and watercolors
Every song I would alternate between each material and start at the beginning when I cycled through them all. I kinda picked the color by the feelings of the song. I think color and sound are really similar because the colors were mostly arranged how they're supposed to be 🙃 And I think most of the piece looked awesome. There were a couple of slight inconveniences like the fact that the watercolor would make it kinda easy for the sharper materials to poke through 🫠 The way the colors were arranged were definitely pleasing most of the time and I felt like cool effects like sort of wavy hair effects on Cassie'a fur, I would'nt have known to do on my own. I also put things where I thought they went based on the music. I kinda think the music knew where to put things better than I did.
The other rules I used were that I mostly lingered in the background for the verses and focused on Cassie during the choruses. During the higher pitched (happened a lot) or more intense sections the strokes would get darker (which incidentally happened more during the choruses and rightfully made Cassie the focus point). Some of the songs seemed like all chorus (I like it though 🥲) and I didn't know where else to put things. Probably someone who knows more about music than me could do this better...
Some personal bias came in because when I was really vibing with the song, I'd put things wherever I wanted.
The lower more intense sections tended to linger towards the bottom of the picture while the lighter sections lingered towards the top.
I think if someone chose to draw the perfect thing, was vibing the right way,and had the right rules, it would be more accurate of what the musician thinks it looks like.
Hence imperfect
