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Hi there!! I have a small question, that might be a little weird, but I hope you’ll find it interesting!If you could illustrate the way you feel music, how would you draw it?

To illustrate the way you feel about music…

That’s a big question Anon! Not that it’s weird or anything, but oh the feelings! The colors! Each song can have a different feeling, therefore a different illustration.

For example: The way I would illustrate “Cotten Candy by Kikuo” would have lots of contrasting colors, mainly pink and a few other colors. The pink part being the Cotten candy, while everything else swirled around to suffocate that pink. If you listen to the song (which I recommend that you do), there’s a lot of sounds, lots of noises that suffocates the melody, all you can hear is the descending tone as it feels like your falling deeper and deeper. Clashing musical notes and sounds could be illustrated with clashing colors, splatted colors, colors that should NOT be there. I would also create a swirling pattern to give off the feeling of falling! Perhaps even use a sponge or some Cotten to dab some pink everywhere, to give off that fluffiness of the Cotten candy!

In contrast, what would I illustrate for “Claire de Lune by Debussy”? The song is calm, melancholic, beautiful, elegant. The main color that I would pick would be a grayish blue, with hints of gold and silver to give off that elegancy. Maybe even add a more vibrant blue on top of that grayish blue? Oh the colors!

What I’m saying is that there’s a lot of ways that you could illustrate music. So much so that trying to type it into words seems chaotic! I can’t type it into words. Thankfully, a picture is worth a thousand, maybe I can show it to you that way.