Find your tribe in a Sea of Creativity
I haven't kept up with the series as a whole, but I saw Mary McDonnell's season and a few at the beginning. Really enjoyed it all.
But boy howdy, I keep picturing her as Lorraine Lyon and she would have killed it.
No disrespect to JJL. I just would have found Mary's a tough ass bitch more enjoyable to watch.
Unpopular opinion but style theft is real if you literally draw the same subjects that the artist you stole from draws. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE IP ART STYLES. But if you copy someone's unique art style to the smallest detail to the point where people are confused about who drew it, then it's pretty obvious that you're trying to profit from another person's creativity. There is nothing wrong with inspiration, taking details you like from another artist and adding them to your drawings, taking part in an art style challenge, or even imitating their techniques AS LONG as you add your own spin to it!! No one owns concepts, no one owns styles, but I would consider piggy-backing on a small artist just to get yourself seen and noticed WRONG!!!!! THE JOY OF BEING AN ARTIST IS EXPERIMENTING AND FINDING OUT WHAT WORKS FOR YOU!! You are literally hindering your improvement if you rely on the creativity and rules another artist has worked hard to develop specifically for THEMSELVES. Even young artists who start out copying other people always end up growing and wanting to make something that represents them instead.
This is why no one likes those white boy Basquiat impersonators on Instagram, even though they adore Basquiats' original pieces. The history and meaning are lost and replaced with a horrible attempt at gaining clout and recognition. Basquiat is not a small artist, but I hope you understand my point. It would be an original piece if, for example, a person made a self-portrait using the Basquiat art style, rather than just recreating something that already exists with absolutely no creative input on their end.
Sometimes I wanna make so much, but I can't though, because my dumb brain is tired or my dumb brain is hungry or my dumb brain wants to sleep. WHEN WILL IT BE OVER?
I still think her music is very very plain, but plain in the relaxing turn off your brain and listen to music while you work kinda plain, aka the good kind.
Ive never been a fan of taylor swift, especially now with her horrible enviormental impact (private jets, multiple album releases of the same album, re-releasing an alternative album whenever someone else reaches the number one spot) I get that many mainstream artists do this, but Im not a fan of those guys either. I was also a teen when Shake It Off first came out. It was literally hell to listen to; it was playing everywhere nonstop, and I really hated that song. BUT I listened to some of her older albums, and I actually like them?? Why is this hard to admit? well, because its very simple, kinda generic pop music that I would usually avoid. I quite like her Speak now album and a few songs from folklore, fearless, etc. I was curious about her newer albums Midnights and The Tortured Poets Department, and whether they were the same kind of relaxing, girly aura songs, but OH MAN, they are terrible. I was actually kinda excited to have my mind changed about Taylor's music, and it has changed somewhat, but these albums are just the same songs over and over again, and they aren't even good.
TL;DR I discovered that taylor swift has good songs, and I shouldnt rely on public opinion to shape my own so much but the public was also right about how bad her new albums are.
My Favourite songs of hers rn:
Safe & Sound
Cardigan
August
Evermore
Come in with the rain
Blank space
Bad blood
Dear john
Better than revenge
Haunted
The lucky one
Ive never been a fan of taylor swift, especially now with her horrible enviormental impact (private jets, multiple album releases of the same album, re-releasing an alternative album whenever someone else reaches the number one spot) I get that many mainstream artists do this, but Im not a fan of those guys either. I was also a teen when Shake It Off first came out. It was literally hell to listen to; it was playing everywhere nonstop, and I really hated that song. BUT I listened to some of her older albums, and I actually like them?? Why is this hard to admit? well, because its very simple, kinda generic pop music that I would usually avoid. I quite like her Speak now album and a few songs from folklore, fearless, etc. I was curious about her newer albums Midnights and The Tortured Poets Department, and whether they were the same kind of relaxing, girly aura songs, but OH MAN, they are terrible. I was actually kinda excited to have my mind changed about Taylor's music, and it has changed somewhat, but these albums are just the same songs over and over again, and they aren't even good.
TL;DR I discovered that taylor swift has good songs, and I shouldnt rely on public opinion to shape my own so much but the public was also right about how bad her new albums are.
My Favourite songs of hers rn:
Safe & Sound
Cardigan
August
Evermore
Come in with the rain
Blank space
Bad blood
Dear john
Better than revenge
Haunted
The lucky one