In the art class i took in highschool they always had techno on, and they listened to bob marley in the pottery class. I like drawing to Jpop, but I lost most of it when my hard drive crashed. Lately its just random rock on my playlist. What do you guys listen to that gets you motivated?

I love drawing while listening to The Flaming Lips. The songs all melt into each other and it's very relaxing.

rock, and techno....everything but rap....and normally how it turns out, is the mood set by the first couple songs....

I tend to prefer drawing to emotionally evocative (not emo) instrumental music but I listen to lyrical varieties as well. It can range from Christian/Christian Rock to trance to jazzy (Pat Metheny-esque) to movie scores to occasional classical, latin and even Evanescence-style music, especially for emotionally intense scenes (like the latest Due East pages).

I get oddly productive with art (and a lot of other things) when I listen to Lisa Loeb's album Tails, for some reason.

I listen to a lot of soundtrack music. It helps with the emotional intents I am trying to convey.
Doctor who 2005
A.I
Death Note
Elfin Lied
John williams
Other than that some Nana kitade.


My Sister the Goddess
http://www.drunkduck.com/My_Sister_The_Goddess/index.php?p=307672

Exactly what I do.

edit: Also, Miles Davis.

Whatever fits the mood and scene that I'm working on.

NO RAP.

mostly upbeat stuff...modern and classic rock, pop from 80's and on. And I do like some rap...snoop dogg, ludacris, eminem, tupac...many others. but I have to be in a certain mood to listen to rap.

Right now I'm into 80's pop hits...

Tom Waits - though I can't listen to him if I want to draw something happy and full of sunshine, because his music puts pictures of run-down bizarro circuses in my head. But otherwise, his music just sort of goes into my head and right out through my fingers. (Seriously - try the Orphans triple-album if you don't believe me.)

Also, instrumental music; the soundtracks of the various Final Fantasy games, the soundtrack of Spirited Away, etc., etc.

atmospheric stuff.
Horror themes when doing something dark.
westerns soundtracks
jazz for just the laid back stuff

I don't think there really is a "best music to draw to". You just have to go with whatever you're into, whatever soothes you and speaks to your soul. Apparently Slayer soothes me and speaks to my soul. I try to pick music that best suits the mood and attitudes of the story i'm working on. I work on a lot of dark horror stories so i listen that bands like Cannibal Corpse, Rammstein, or Strapping Young Lad a lot when i work, but sometimes if the story gets more melancholy i'll go with the Decemberists or Nirvana.

And Weird Al. I love Weird Al.


I also like to throw on a movie while i work, usually one i've seen a dozen times already so i don't get too distracted, though i occasionally worry that too many of the ideas from the flick will leak into my story.

sometimes podcasts are okay, especially movie reviews from spill.com or webcomics weekly cast.

Piano music... and anything done by Vanessa Carlton (sp?), and Five for Fighting.

I put my playlist on shuffle and GO.

I'm mostly into rock. No specific kinds. I just don't listen to heavy metal. I have emo songs when I draw my emo character, Caden. It fits with him nicely. I also have a lot of classical music. Because classical music is awesome.

Shuffle would annoy me

I have various music from the last 5 decades or so, so the quality/volume varies quite a bit between the albums, I'd have to switch to winamp every second song to change the volume.

The music is quite varied... ebm, visual kei, deathrock, punk, black/death metal, industrial rock, avant pop, ambient, dark ambient, postindustrial, digital hardcore, psychobilly, gabber, goa, technoid, idm... basically everything but pop
(yes, I got tired typing in the genres) :P

I only listen to metal or alternative rock... people think it's kind of weird since I don't really draw anything that would reflect that.

First, it depends on the mood... second, I listen to METAL \m/! However, I listen to other stuff depending on the mood of the page or something. I could listen to classical, techno, some pop, or other stuff.

Anything but NO RAP! By the way, Rap isn't music.

I think it is but I seem to be one of the only people here that likes rap. *shrugs*

There are lots of people that don't think metal or rock is music. I disagree with that too. I enjoy most kinds of music...but I will say Souja Boy and Shop Boyz need to be tossed into traffic. XD

There's nothing inherently wrong with rap. The problem seems to be that the majority of rap exposed to the common person is shallow, crude, and occasionally outright vulgar. I don't think most people are aware (including many of rap's mainstream artists) that rap sprung out of beat poetry.

I don't really like rap, but i'm willing to say it's simply a matter of personal subjective preference rather than objective criteria. I know there are real rap artists out there, i just haven't sought them out.

Plus, as fan of the MetaL, i can't honestly say that everything i listen to is high-brow stuff.

I grew up in Detroit so I'm tired of hearing rap and techno from hearing it my whole life.

I like listening to bands like Sleep Tight Tiger, Mogwai and Explosions In The Sky while I'm just drawing to draw. If I'm trying to get a darker mood I'll put on stuff like Alkaline Trio that's dark and emotional but not emo. Emo doesn't bother me, but it's not really my preference. Reel Big Fish, Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer and The Offspring are the stuff I like for happier moods.

Basically I listen to a lot of ambient rock, ska and punk rock. Anything with a lot of energy.

Eye of the Tiger by Survivor ^_^

Recently i have discovered piano music is quite it.

That kills my brain Red. Good for reading too, but drawing music has to grab my mind and not let go or else my thoughts drift and drawing dies.

I listen to lyrical indie shit. Like Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, The Mountain Goats, Flotation Toy Warning, stuff like that. Also The Pillows and Radiohead help me concentrate. What I tend to listen to most when I'm drawing my comic is World's End Girlfriend. It's beautiful and musical and basically the soundtrack.

I love punk and metal, but I can't listen to it when I draw. I like to draw while listening to peaceful things. Rap doesn't work either, although I love it too. I think rap and hip hop are great. All these haters have just heard too much of the crummy radio shit, I guess? Well, we all have our own tastes. xP I think Naughty by Nature and Dr. Octagon and Non Phixion and 2pac and all have tons of musical merit, though.

under disciplined circumstances I'd try not to listen to any music. To really concentrate I think its best to work without.

However, when I do, which is sometimes, its shuffle time.

Motzart, 60s (especially The Beatles), The Killers, Philip Glass, and lots of random other stuff: I only like one daft punk, one greenday, etc.

I seem to go one of two ways with the music I listen to while drawing:

- Music that, emotionally, fits the scene I'm working on. ie recently I've been putting all my time into an entry for this deviantART tournament which has a very dramatic, serious tone. So naturally, I'm just not going to listen to Ruslana Lychkova or Morning Musume. It just won't work. I often base segments of story on a particular song, as well
- The song or songs I'm really into at the time. If I find a song I really like it, I can listen to it for days on end, and to hell with scene moods.

... well, I guess in either circumstance, the only real consistency is that I avoid music I dislike like the plague. I'd hazard a guess that tends to go for everyone most of the time, huh, if the rap debate above has any say in it

Especially if I'm feeling uninspired, I like to listen to the trippier Beatles songs while I draw(come together, I am the walrus, happiness is a warm gun etc).

The best music to listen to while drawing is none whatsoever.

i like songs form musicales lately