The cool thing is that these thumbnails have all been infused with a deeper level of emotion through the songs. So, hopefully, you can tap into those feelings and try to bring them through in your finished work. Once you’ve been inspired by the song and have a bunch of thumbnails, you can look at them all and see which one you would like to work on to create a more finished piece. Listening to music is just one of many inspirational drawing ideas for your sketchbook What to do Once you Have a Bunch of Thumbnail Drawings The car is never just sitting there, and the main focus of the commercial is always the car. Or, if you wanted to use this to illustrate an object, think about how some car commercials play out. How about thinking about how you could show a really interesting space through the use of creative angles, close-ups and faraway shots of different areas of the environment… I think characters is the easy one, but if you wanted to draw environments… You can use this with characters… but you could also use it with environments or objects. Once you are finished, you should have 1-2 pages of quick thumbnail sketches that tell the story of the song. While you are working like this, think of yourself like an animator or a movie maker who is going to show exactly what’s on screen to go along with that certain section of music. Then listen to it again in 20-30 second ‘chunks’ while drawing what kind of action would be happening during this part of the song. Music can be a great source of drawing inspiration Using this Exercise to Tell Stories With Your Drawingsįirst you can listen to the music once just to get a feeling for the song.
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That’s it! You can use the above exercise with any song to come up with all kinds of new and interesting thumbnail sketches that you can then use to create your full drawings. (If you need help with making your thumbnail sketches we have a full storyboarding and sketching class here) Sketch out at least 10 thumbnail sketches while you are listening to the music.
Listen to the song below (This is one of my personal favorites):
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You can listen to the music and come up with a series of quick sketches showing what kind of pictures could accompany the music. This exercise is great for both thumbnail sketching as well as storyboarding. In this case, you can just start listening until something really grabs you. Or you may not even have any idea of what you want to sketch when you start… It’s as simple as choosing a song that speaks to you. Or maybe you’re looking for deep emotion and sadness… You may want to create a happy drawing, so you can find some happy music to go with that. Basically, you’re drawing inspiration from what you hear! And, because of this, your brain will come up with new images associated with the music. When you are listening to soundtracks, it may be difficult for you to remember the exact scene the music was playing on. Why Listening to Music Will Give You Inspiration for Drawingīecause we’ve all watched many movies, or at least seen some television programs, we already have a connection between music and what we see.Įven if you’ve never thought of it before, you already have a huge library of situations in your head that you associate with certain music.
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When you listen to a powerful soundtrack you can’t help but feel something inside your body. And, when you listen to them without watching the movie they were created for, you can use this to tap into a deeper level of creativity. There are actually a few other types, but soundtracks is the big one… It’s music that is often created to enhance emotional response to visual imagesĬan you guess what type of music this is?.Its tempo can range from the slowest of the slow to the fastest of the fast.This type of music usually has no lyrics.It’s no big secret that music can be extremely inspiring. However, there’s a certain type of music that I’ve found to be far more effective for enhancing your creativity… Need inspiration for drawing? The answer could be right there in your music collection. Need Inspiration for Drawing? Music could be the answer!
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