What are your main influences, role models or people to follow? In my experience, one difference could be that music may take longer to “finish” more often than art, because Im a little harder on myself when it comes to music.Ĥ. Sometimes the final version comes quick, and sometimes it takes a long time to get it right. Sometimes I have a solid idea what I want to create musically or visually, and sometimes I have no idea what Im going for yet, just experimenting. What are the similarities and differences in each creative process (music and visual art)?įor me I feel like the process is nearly the same for both.
MASKERADE MUSIC HOW TO
There are many things I probably don’t know how to do because I haven’t had formal education, but I’ve geared my learning and direction towards what I like and what I want to do, and I enjoy trying to figure out how to achieve a certain result.ģ. I enjoy learning on my own, at my own pace, and being able to say that I did it myself. I have an unshakable drive to create…its cathartic and essential for me to feel good. When something catches my interest, I tend to hyper focus on it, and I want to get really good at it…all or nothing. That’s when I changed my direction as a musician, started my own solo project and design business.
MASKERADE MUSIC SOFTWARE
Over the course of 8-9 years as a touring musician, I continued to mess around with design software like Photoshop and Illustrator, but it was around 2012-2014 that I started taking design a little more seriously. I always told myself that if I didn’t go to art college, I needed to teach myself some of the things that I may have learned there. My initial plan after graduating was to attend the Art Institute for graphic design, but a band I was singing for at the time was doing pretty well, and that ultimately led me to decide otherwise…we had some great tours and opportunities on the horizon that I couldn’t pass up at the age of 16-17. It was a passion I found early and couldn’t see myself doing anything else. At what point in your life and why did you decide to dedicate yourself to art? Did you think consciously to be self-taught or was it ‘an accident’?īy the time I was in high school I was pretty dedicated to both music and art. I may have taken interest in art slightly before music, but as far as doing either on somewhat of a professional level, it would be music.Ģ. They’ve both been an interest of mine for as long as I can remember.