What were you listening to keep yourself occupied making your Comic/Novel

faisalhussein394 2025-04-27 11:10:20 UTC #1

Hello everyone, you read it right. I am wondering if you all are listening to something while working on your content.

For my comic, Mukhtar:

I usually listen to musics from "Two Steps from Hell" on youtube:

But as time goes on, I start listening to true horror stories, funny video gamers, disturbing events, and more:

I have published a second comic based on Sci-Fi called Abbasia:

I usually listen to Soft ambient trance | Orchestral music such as Endless Space:

And later goes the same way for Abbasia as I began listening to other things that involves true horror stories, funny video gamers, disturbing events, and more.

So what about you? What do you always listen to in order to keep yourself occupied at work?

krazycafetales262 2025-04-27 11:31:07 UTC #2

It depends.

Sometimes not listening to anything helps me destress after a long day.

Others times its either city pop, music without words or calming/funny youtube videos.

primehkm 2025-04-27 11:40:26 UTC #3

I usually listen to "Feel It" by d4vd or Sweater Weather by James Harris.

wolflu66 2025-04-27 11:44:55 UTC #4

I used to listen to a lot of metal music, but later I had some issues with my ears and hearing, and that type of music would make my ears feel painful, so I've been listening to it less.

I don't seem to specifically listen to any particular music genre; I just listen to whatever comes to mind. Sometimes I listen to commentary videos on YouTube, or even play a movie just to listen to it.

Of course, I only listen to conversational content when I'm drawing. Because when I'm writing scripts, it prevents me from concentrating. When I'm writing scripts, I choose instrumental music or songs in languages I don't understand.

Sometimes I even play Tom Cat's screams XD.

I listen to 2 Step from Hell, too.

Leyelle 2025-04-27 13:21:40 UTC #5

James Arthur, a bit of Janani K Jha. some Amie Chan and Epic the Musical

Lensing 2025-04-27 14:22:26 UTC #6

Is there anybody else who needs complete silence when making comics?
I don´t know, maybe it´´s a musician thing, I love music but listening to music
while drawing makes me stop drawing and sing, play guitar or figure out
the chords of the song etc., it feels like somebody is in the room talking to
me while I try to focus on drawing

NGChloe 2025-04-27 14:42:54 UTC #7

I listened to a few youtube playlists that were dependent on the mood I was writing in or for:

ArtGremlin 2025-04-27 15:49:10 UTC #8

I like listening to the playlist that I made specifically for the story I’m writing/drawing. Both of the ones for my two biggest projects are like 9 1/2 hours long and I organized them in chronological order to make it easier to focus on what’s happening because all the songs are relevant to the plot and I like imagining animations to go with each one.
And sometimes I just listen to silence. Usually on Sunday, or when I feel too lazy to get up and find my earbuds.

suzune 2025-04-27 16:05:15 UTC #9

I often hear rice-powered cameras tell the news in the neighborhood :)) In Vietnam, people often call their neighbors rice-powered cameras because no matter where you go or what you do, no matter how secret it is, they know everything. But sometimes thanks to them, I have ideas to continue. :không có miệng:

This is a common image in Vietnam especially in the market.

MelancholicOtaku 2025-04-27 17:18:32 UTC #10

I have a few writing playlists

kyupol 2025-04-27 18:02:52 UTC #11

My comics has OST...

2DLenzy 2025-04-27 18:43:43 UTC #12

I find that instrumental/soundtrack/orchestral compositions are beneficial for visualizing what I want to write/depict and help with illustrations. Helps with the imagination rather than the work.

For the actual writing/drawing comics though, I'd turn on something rather annoying/boring like binaural beats or ADHD music, stuff that's repetitive so my brain forces itself to focus and not get lost in the "music".

Lensing 2025-04-27 18:45:57 UTC #13

That´s something I can relate to, the only thing which is an option for me is instrumental music.
Short songs with lyrics don´t work for me at all. I tried this a lot