What other creative outlets are you exploring?

I took up guitar about a year ago. Learning some Iron Maiden riffs and solos.

 

interested in tons of different things! it's just a matter of investing in one before starting on another
a lot of my friends do cool things like sewing, art, glass-etching, bookbinding, basket weaving, piano, and so on. i'd love to improve my art and get into bookbinding first and foremost...i'm a big lover of notebooks but they can be so expensive if you want a quality one or at least one with some flair to it. plus the idea of preserving a dying (or rare) art has a lot of charm imo

 

Writing (that's not writing songs) is my other;
I'm a card carrying song writer, member of PRS for Music, have my CAE number and everything.

Where I come from, people might love for theatre, me, however, I love for music.
Soho, to me, I get my thrills from Jimi Hendrix and Alice Cooper and Slash and Motorhead; The Who, The Rolling Stones, even The Beatles have been known to turn up here.... etc (Everybody).
I'm at home in Soho for the music industry side of the night life, and that whole performing recording scene; even though it's in the heart of theatreland and other creatives like actors/actresses and all of that; I'm there looking for Gibsons and Fenders and all of that.
I would have loved guitar anyway, but, Soho is amazing and I'm just really lucky to have it.

I've got characters and stories I wish to develop; but I say this as a guitarist; who usually has a story to tell through song/conceptual album; just because that's usually what I write/is what write themselves for me.

 

I'm a guitarist who took up wanting to write (other than songs) when I joined this forum.
Also, I've heard and loved what I've heard of Oregon's guitar culture.
I'd like to see more of the US, and, I do want to check out Oregon, it's where I'd love to see next.
Oregon's at the top of this list of places that I want to see/visit, in the world.

 

Art journaling. And I'm trying to teach myself to play ukulele, but I'm really self-conscious about practicing when there's anyone around to hear how rubbish I am, so that's not going so well at the moment.

 

My interests tend to be language related, so I don't think that counts as "creative", but I do enjoy collecting vintage Science Fiction and Fantasy paperbacks from the 50's and 60's. That's not really "creative" either, but I have a page where I have all my books displayed and I created the page graphic myself (that's my entry into this thread) I like messing around with GIMP and graphics and suchlike things. I'm no one's definition of a great shakes, but it entertains me and is free of cost. The background is an old Forbidden Planet poster, but the spines of the books are all created from scratch, as close to the actual spines of those books as possible. Each of them is in my collection and I featured them to show how the Ace Books logo had changed over the 50's and 60's.

 

Card-carrying. I've got a nerd card, gay card, bear card, linguist card... lots'a cards!

 

Yet no True ID, or whatever it's called...

 

I don't even want to think about it.

But my picture is pretty, yeah? Took me forever to get the Ace logo with slanted letters to look perfect.

 

It does look professionally done, if you hadn't told me, I'd guess it was promo material from their site.

My latest "other creative outlet" output is in the Halloween costume thread. Best compliment of the year was when a rather tall and fit gaijin dude said to his comrade as I passed "That actually scared me."

 

I started making Serie B comics this year. I like to draw but I don't have patience adding colour, so I made a crappy filter to cartoonize real photos and use them as drawings. There's some example in the forum Gallery and in my site

 

I do that too, only, for me, that's writing.

I'd come of with 'the script' and draw it without needing to write or know the format of the script; I'd 'have the gag/joke' and draw it.

I called it Talking Toilet.
I wanted to make him animated one day so I began to do crude animatics;

Spoiler

Then I bought a guitar and all the pain went away..
My first Fender
my 1999 or 2000 Ash Fender Deluxe Stratocaster with a maple neck.

and I guess that helped because; voicing this toilet character I had was just a mask for myself, and I didn't feel like playing guitar I was that upset, so I decided to do a cartoon; then around then, about a week or so after, I found this guitar and jumped on it/snapped it up (hard to find desired finish) and that's what happened to that; I got a guitar. 'true story'

 

I sing and play guitar. I write songs. I have been known to make various bleats and screeches with other instruments as well (keyboards, flute, recorders, tin whistles - okay, my voice does that sometimes too). I'm not good on the guitar any more because I set it aside for a couple of years in favor of alcohol. I've sobered up, though, after a rather apocalyptic argument with my liver, and I've begun to practice again. I wish I had more control over my voice. I like its sound - it's got years of whiskey gravel in it now, and is more baritone than it used to be, and sounds a bit wild and ragged, but I can't trust it to obey my wishes. It makes singing a kind of adventure into the unknown. Fun for me, difficult for the listener.

I'm trying to learn to draw, but I have zero talent in visual arts. Stevie Wonder would be akin to da Vinci compared to me. I keep thinking it might help if I figured out which end of the pencil to hold. It might also help if I put the paper on a flat surface, rather than a heap of spilled M&Ms. I'm pretty weak on the basics, I think.

 

Video game design and artificial intelligence. I started learning programming again recently and have already made a little research and investigative assistant application that doesn't require being online to function and who doesn't spy on me, lol.

 

I would love to be able to put drawings together! Isn't there an app somewhere that will take samples of face hands etc etc to morph together something decent? Cause I can't draw for shite!

 

There is an application that enables a person to create images through shape manipulation; it's called Inkscape. It uses scalable vector graphics which means that you can "sculpt" images without actually having to draw them.

There are a lot of tutorials on Youtube for the program; it's a really cool way to create digital art.

 

Hmm... processing

 

Inkscape will also trace an existing image, like a human face, using vector points that you can manipulate as well. After it's done, you could adjust anything on the face to your own specs: eyebrows, mouth, eyes etc.

 

Wow! I wonder if they use pen function? Got homework to do. Are you skilled with this, how long did it take?

 

Creative? mhmmm. None really. I mean I doodle on the side of the page, especially when i'm on the phone and they put me on hold. I suppose that counts as a creative outlet......

If I was to extend this outside to just pure 'creative' outlets and to just a more general 'outlet'. Then boxing (bare-knuckles), gaming and gym are my main 'outlets'. I consider these outlets as non-hobby (thought these are hobbies as well by definition) wherein I do them to calm, relax or otherwise.

 

That's a Disney Old Style animation that takes forever to make a frame.
No wonder why you postponed the project in favor of the guitar.

My only electric guitar was a homemade electric guitar (that actually became a bass) I made using:

1) The chipset Amp of a Walkman (It was a 8 pin 5V chip)
2) 4 magnetic pickups headers of some old cassete players. I later use 4 magnet pickups of doorbells (Much better gain)
3) Bicycle brake strings of different inner radius. I coundn't find anything better since the strings needed to change the magnetic field.

Sounded good, but nothing acoustic just Sheer Heavy Metal.

 

I'm not well versed in Inkscape; I've dabbled with it and learned how to do a few things. Once you get the hang of vector line sculpting, it's much quicker than actual drawing because you don't make erasable mistakes; you simply readjust and it's fixed.