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Heya I hope I've got the right board here ^^"

So is there any particular music you guys like to listen to when drawing NiGHTS art? Or maybe you've been inspired by a certain song to draw a particular piece?
Here's a place to discuss it!

I always feel really inspired to draw by music. At the moment I'm drawing Reala and am listening to a few songs by Tori Amos...especially Crucify and Carnival seem to fit really well ^^

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Random.. it depends really. Muse gets me playing crazy NiGHTS scenarios in my head when I listen to them.. The Mars Volta:De-Loused in the Comatorium gives me some Purgatory related inspiration. Sometimes it also depends on my mood whether or not I pick up inspiration from music. If I'm angry or feeling something intense, I sometimes get inspiration from the one song I put on loop to match my mood. :) But in the end, when I get my NiGHTS official/fan music playing all together, I get inspired from it. ^^

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I am generally inspired by music, I can't draw properly in complete silence.
For NiGHTS related art I find myself often listening to orchestrated songs... though it really depends on what kind of picture I'm drawing.

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I was a major Tori Amos fan in High School! =] Especially Sophomore year. I kind of had a fall out with her when the Beekeeper came out (*so much* disappointment) though... but her new album is totally winning me back over.


When drawing, or writing, NiGHTS stuff.... *points to avatar* I listen to a TON of Kate Bush music. She always sets the stage for what I wanna put as my goal for a piece, never fails to get me going<3

But aside from the obvious XD I actually have a playlist on my ipod for artings! Let's see... I currently have on it...
Joanna Newsom
Iron and Wine
Modest Mouse
David Bowie
T.Rex
Ladytron
Bjork
Magnetic Fields
Sigur Ros
Caroline
Deep Forest


XD;;;;

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An art playlist!! Great idea, I think I'll do that as well!

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An art playlist!! Great idea, I think I'll do that as well!


Yay!!
I've inspiredddd~

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I usually listen to my MP3 player.......the songs on it being:

Get off of My Back ( from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron)
Soft Museum theme
Reala's theme
Jackle's theme
Dreams, Dreams
Welcome to Christmas NiGHTS
Hit Me Up ( from Happy Feet)
Can't Take Me ( From Spirit)
Last Dollar : Fly Away by Tim McGraw
TaleSpin theme
Freedom is a Voice ( Barnyard)
Won't Back Down ( Barnyard)


( yes I have an extremely random playlist. Your point?)

oddly enough listening to the Dreamcast helps, too. ^^''

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If it's not NiGHTS music, it's definitely Aruna! She is so awesome! Her song break you open is what inspired a piece I'm working on now, about the... well, let's make it a surprise!

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Ah, where to begin? I have WAY too many songs to draw on.. it all depends on the mood I want, much like Purgatory. And more often than not, it's the facial expressions I work on the most! (There's no doubt in my mind - I make faces while drawing... XD;; )

For instance, while drawing this, I listened to the likes of "The Mind's Eye" by James Reynolds, and "The First Thing" by Ronnie Montrose. VERY blues-ish and downtempo stuff.

Actually, there's one song in particular I listen to almost as often as the OST while drawing NiGHTS - "King of Lullaby" by the long-since-dead Eiffel 65! It's one of their lesser-known songs, but it's so very NiGHTS-ish, even the lyrics! (If you can understand them, LOL. Blasted vocorders.. XD) I'm actually working on an AMV for it too. So many muses, so little time..!

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I like Porcupine tree, nightwish, Dream Theater and Reel big fish. XD My taste in music gives me some interesting drawing results

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I'm just going to be lazy and make a list.

Frou Frou, specifically "Must Be Dreaming" and their cover of "Holding Out for a Hero".
E Nomine
Muse
"Castle in the Sky" by Ivan van Dahl
Nightwish
"Infection" by Onitsuka Chihiro
Within Temptation
"When You're Evil" by Voltaire
Queen
"Once Upon a December"
Sonata Arctica
"Letters From the Lost Days" and "Room of Angel" from the Silent Hill series
"Devils Never Cry" from Devil May Cry 3 - mostly for the second half of the song.
The OST from Ico

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'Another Night' By Real McCoy
'Dreams of an Absolution' Sonic 2006 of something, Silver's theme
....

Pretty much anything can get me in a NiGHTS drawing mood.

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I pretty much draw NiGHTS whenever the mood catches me. Theres no set time, place, or music inspiring it. It just happens.

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Honestly there is one piece that inspires me to draw SOO VERY MUCH. I am a huge fan of classical music, and bach is my homie lol. but my inspirational song is:

Pachelbel's canon in D Major. (yay!) In fact im listening to it now.

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Hm... the type of music that makes me want to do some NiD fanart is usual NiGHTS music, both official and fan music. God I listened to "Battle of the D'Force Masters-Vocal EDiT" a couple years back and I made one of my best NiD/GEN pictures ever. And just recently I listened to Klace's piano version of "Dreams Dreams" and I just wanted to draw NiGHTS in a rather mellow themed pic (didn't get the chance because my mom made me go to bed. It was late.)

But its not always NiD music of some sort. It's sometimes anime music like the song "All the Way" from Kino's Journey. One of the lines is "Fly away" and it's a rather excited but gentle tempoed song and I just busted out my paper and pencil and did my best to draw NiGHTS flying in the air. Sadly that didn't come to flourishen, yet anyway.

But the one song that ALWAYS inspires me to draw NiGHTS is the instrumental version of "Battle of the D'Force Masters" because without words to music, I get a clearer image of what I want to draw. And that means I'll draw what I see in my imagination better ;)

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Yeah, lyric-less music grants the imagination more leg room. I love "Message From Nightopia" and "After The Dream" for that reason. X3

I'm gonna hunt down some of your suggestions, everyone. More music can't be a bad thing! Especially music that inspires me to fly!

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I am generally inspired by music, I can't draw properly in complete silence.
For NiGHTS related art I find myself often listening to orchestrated songs... though it really depends on what kind of picture I'm drawing.

Seconded on all counts. Silence tends to drive me nuts whenever I'm doing anything. Mainly soundtracks, or music that has minimal lyrics are the things I go for. Heck, I still listen to the Sonic 3/Knuckles soundtracks XD Anything orchestral really.

Though out of the few soundtracks/albums I've been listening to lately, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle seem to be the ones that are stuck on repeat. I have to admit though, Reanimation is one album I usually stick on for background music.

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E.S. Posthumus is very inspiring in my opinion. Instrumental, and very powerful music. You can listen to it HERE

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Another fan of E.S. Posthumus? :) I've never run across one before. Not many people have heard of them. I've listened to thier music for years now, and usually I'm the one introducing thier music to people. X3 lol They are -amazing-! Everyone should definatly check them out. <3's~ Your right "powerful" is the perfect description for thier music. :3

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One song that really puts me into a NiGHTS mood is "Dive into the Heart-Destati" from Kingdom Hearts/KHII. The mysterious ambience gets my mind going. I've yet to actually do any creative stuff while listening to this but maybe one day...

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I have found a new song. I have recently gotten a new mp3 player and it had sample songs. usually they arent good, but it came with some electronica. I was amazed when it contained:

Ixchel

The song by Pleqq on their album psychoanarchitecture! Its an awesome song, I would reccommend it. Are there any Pleqq fans here?

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Sorry for bringing back this really dead topic, but I never rightfully commented :lol: .

Err... anyway, I noticed most Pink Floyd songs are really good music to listen to, especially before going to sleep. Most of their songs always remind me of the conscious, and, in particular, 'Learning to Fly', 'Breathe', 'Time', and 'Comfortably Numb' are really nice listens :3.

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I've only been able to draw NiGHTS once. Now I can't draw anything without messing up horribly :lol:

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I've only been able to draw NiGHTS once. Now I can't draw anything without messing up horribly :(


Practice makes perfect.

I use to draw very shitty. In about... 3 months, my art improved from 'sh!t' to 'cartoonist'. You just need to put your mind to it :lol:! Thinking that you keep messing up horribly means that you will soon improve drastically. That's always the case for me.

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Practice makes perfect.

I use to draw very shitty. In about... 3 months, my art improved from 'sh!t' to 'cartoonist'. You just need to put your mind to it ^_^! Thinking that you keep messing up horribly means that you will soon improve drastically. That's always the case for me.


I'll try to upload a pic of something I drew recently.

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I tend to put on the NiGHTS soundtrack itself.. but I recently made a Jackle picture, and was listening to the anime Hellsing's OST the whole time and it was great

Also depends on the mood of the pic; drew a disco themed NiGHTS pic, and you know I put on some Bee Gees while I was drawing that. ;)

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Dreams to dream by Fivel

I've yet to listen to the actual song, as I have just stumbled upon this on a friends livejournal, but just reading the lyrics already gets my drawing vibes up and running!

I lose my way
No one cares
The words I say
No one hears
My life it seems
Is a world of dreams

Deep in the night
You'll find me
Dream and you might
Behind me stay
If you will stay
We'll dream the night away

Dreams to dream
In the dark of the night
When the world goes wrong
I can still make it right
I can see so far in my dreams
I'll follow my dreams
Until they come true

There is a star
Waiting to guide us
Shining inside us
When we close our eyes
Come with me
You will see what I mean
There's a world inside
No one else ever sees
You will go so far in my dreams
Somewhere in my dreams
Your dreams will come true

Don't let go
If you stay close to me
In my dreams tonight
You will see what I see
Dreams to dream
As near as can be
Inside you and me
They always come true

Inside you and me
They always come true
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That's a real nice bedtime song for me :huh: when the drawing has emerged, I'll be posting it somewhere around.

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What inspires me is my friend. She draws amazing things and when she puts her watercoloring skills to work it's amazing. I hope to be as good as her one day.

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I like to draw non-NiGHTS related art while I listen to the NiGHTS soundtrack, but I don't know if that counts.....

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I always get inspired to draw NiGHTS when I hear this song [I know I posted this before, but I think the other thread got deleted. Also, the reason my other thread was deleted was because this one was like it, so my post CANNOT BE CALLED THREAD BUMPING!] :

"Tambourine Man"- Bob Dylan

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand,
Vanished from my hand,
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping.
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet,
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship,
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip,
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
To be wanderin'.
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way,
I promise to go under it.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Though you might hear laughin', spinnin', swingin' madly across the sun,
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facin'.
And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind,
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
Seein' that he's chasing.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

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Uhh, the only time I was actually inspired by music was when I heard "La Bamba" playing on the radio, then drew Jackle with a sombrero on and shaking maracas!

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Sega already tried that. :)

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Music inspires me alot with my drawings. One song called "King of Lullaby" inspired me to draw a pic of UV NiGHTS.

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Here's another good NiGHTS song:

"The Adventure"- Angels and Airwaves

I want to have the same last dream again
The one where I wake up, and I'm alive
Just as the four walls close me within
My eyes are open up with pure sunlight
I'm the first to know, my dearest friends
Even if your hope has burned with time
Anything thats dead shall be regrown
And your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine

Hey oooh, here I am
And here we go, life's waiting to begin

Any type of love, it will be shown
Like every single tree, reach for the sky
If you're going to fall, I'll let you know
That I will pick you up, like you for I
I felt this thing, I can't replace
Where everyone was working for this goal
where all the children left without a trace
Only to come back as pure as gold to recite this all

I cannot live, I can't breathe, unless you do this with me[x6]

Hello, here I am (do this with me)
And here we go, life's waiting to begin (do this with me)
Hello, here I am (do this with me)
And here we go, life's waiting to begin
Life's waiting to begin




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