What do y’all do?
My wife is a writer and I enjoy creating music.
Is there something, in particular, that you like to use (software, hardware, tools, utilities, etc.)?
My wife writes using whatever, she’s been collecting fountain pens more recently and I’m thinking of getting her a typewriter.
I like to use VCV Rack for music, probably the most engaging way I’ve created music for myself.
i’m getting back into writing right now! writing fiction used to be a big interest of mine, but i lost confidence in my abilities and eventually developed anxiety around writing basically anything at all. i’ve mostly worked through that though :) my goal is to have a piece of writing of any length that i can say is complete.
my favourite method is writing by hand, specifically in cursive. i’m probably going to switch to using my phone with a bluetooth keyboard, though - i have fragments of a bunch of different things and can’t organize them easily on paper.
also, sometimes i draw, paint, or do linocut printing. making prints is a lot of fun! i’ve made band patches as well as original pieces. for mediums i like both linoleum and softer plastic blocks, but not the really soft ones as they tend to flake. but maybe it’s that my cheap speedball carving tool isn’t sharp enough lol
Are you interested in short fiction or larger works? My wife started out as an erotic fiction writer before she moved to the US where we met but she’s writing women’s fiction which I have enjoyed very much.
I sing almost all day, still occasionally find time to noodle on guitar, and garden all the time. In the winter I’ll do wood burning art projects that usually get donated to charities for raffles.
Do you have any local charities that you normally donate to? Larger ones I might recognize ike Rotary and United Way or any specific organizations that you feel deserve some attention?
The only thing I create and donate is my hair hahaha, my small contribution but it’s nice to hear that someone has a hobby that impacts their community in a positive way.
We like to donate plants to the local library and food bank plant drives each spring, for local ones. The artwork is usually donated to Games Done Quick to benefit Malala Fund, Médecins Sans Frontières, Prevent Cancer Foundation, and others.
GDQ, MSF, and PCF??? Wow! Those are just the organizations that I recognize off the top of my head and I can already tell that you do great work. Very respectable, thank you.
I’ll look into making my next charitable contribution to the Malala Fund in honor of you because this is the first time I’ve heard of this organization.
I like writing, drawing, painting, making comics, and I wanna get into Blender and game dev eventually. I have a big worldbuilding project that I have lots of other projects nested into. I have a webcomic that takes place in a small part of the big world, and sometimes I do paintings of the other areas that aren’t in the comic. It’s great because it’s just filled with everything I’m interested in, and when there’s a new interest, it gets thrown in there too :) I like traditional painting and only do digital for editing the colors cus I already stare at a computer screen all day for work, and then for gaming. Need a few hobbies that aren’t on a screen 😓 I make my comic with sharpies and coffee, and like acrylic paint the best.
Would you be able to share a link to your worldbuilding project? I know a lot of people like making concept art and background information then sharing them, not sure what platforms are popular for it though.
It’s all in notebooks still, I think I’ll eventually make a Neocities page on it. I think WorldAnvil gets used a lot but it’s more than I need rn. The comic is Wash-Run tho. Ty for asking! Do you have your music online anywhere?
I do a lot of digital art. I draw sometimes, but my motorskills leave a lot to be desired (I draw with my wrist, not my arm, and I have shaky hands); so if I’m doing anything more than sketching, I need to draw in Procreate so I can keep retrying each line until it looks how I want.
Because of this, I usually stick to vector art, which is much cleaner regardless of motor skills. I lucked out and bought Illustrator when it was CS6 and not Creative Cloud, so I’m still using that and will likely continue to use it forever (I hate consumer SaaS with a passion).
Follow YouTube procreate painting videos. I’m not good at drawing or painting, but I like to put on a random step by step procreate video and follow it.
I like cooking too.
