Artist Block? Launching Our Idea Generator!

HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

i always have a hard time finding good stuff to listen to while i’m studying so i’m here to hopefully help some people with the same problem and share some of my faves! i’ll divide this post into instrumental and non-instrumental albums/playlists in order to make it even easier for you guys to navigate :-) 

happy studying!

instrumental albums and playlists

signs and wonders by elisha david 

interstellar soundtrack 

studio ghibli movies soundtrack 

theory of everything soundtrack

the immitation game soundtrack

the crown season 2 soundtrack

lofi/jazzhop playlist

lofi/jazzhop playlist 2

new feelings by elijah who

don’t make me cry by elijah who

complete harry potter movies soundtrack

peaceful piano

pride and prejudice soundtrack

le petit prince soundtrack

classical music for studying

disney score to study to

non-instrumental (with singing) albums and playlists

reading, studying, and rainy days

acoustic covers

kpop study music

calm indie songs playlist

your favorite coffeehouse

study zone

paradise by slow club

the lumineers by the lumineers

"are they lovers?"

worse. it's a sports anime

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A master post of Thomas Romain’s art tutorials.

There’s not enough space to post all of them, SO here’s links to everything he has posted (on twitter) so far : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. 

Now that new semesters have started, I thought people might need these. Enjoy your lessons!

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People talk a lot about how reading is necessary for writing, but when you really want to improve your writing, it’s important to go beyond just simple reading. Here are some things to do when reading:

Note how they begin and end the story. There are a ton of rather contradictory pieces of advice about starting stories, so see how they do it in the stories you enjoy. Don’t only look at the most popular stories, but look at your more obscure favorites.

See what strikes you. Is it fast or complicated scenes with a lot of emotions? Is it stark lines? Pithy dialogue? What do you remember the next day?

Pay attention to different styles. It’s not just whether they use past or present tense, first or third person. It’s whether the writing is more neutral or deeper inside character’s heads. Do they use italics? Parentheses? Other interesting stylistic choices? Take the ones you like and try them out in your own writing. See what works and what doesn’t.

Keep track of how they deal with other characters. Do we see a lot of secondary character each for very brief periods of time or are there a couple that show up a lot? How much information do we get about secondary characters? Do they have their own plots or do their plots revolve entirely around the main characters? 

Count how many plots there are. Is there just one main plot or are there multiple subplots? Are the storylines mostly plot-based or character-based?  

Pay attention to what you don’t like. If you don’t like what’s going on in a book or even just a scene, note what it is. Does the dialogue feel awkward? Are the characters inconsistent? Does the plot feel too convenient or cobbled together? Does the wording just feel off? See if you can spot those issues in your own writing, especially when reading a completed draft or beginning a later draft.

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