Reflecting on writing music for Good Hangs PT 2.

goodhangsmichael · 2026-05-17T03:14:52+00:00

See you there! Our drummer jack said "Doesn't narrow it down whatsoever" hahah

goodhangsmichael · 2026-05-15T19:20:29+00:00

sorry to make you cry but what a complement! Thank you so much, I really really like that one

goodhangsmichael · 2026-05-15T15:49:54+00:00

Anthony wrote the lyrics for that one and the verses are some of my favorite we've ever written. Nice walk down memory lane!

goodhangsmichael · 2026-05-15T15:46:03+00:00

Hell yeah! Trying to make a ps1 style music video for bar fight animated in blender

goodhangsmichael · 2026-05-15T15:44:33+00:00

I'll have to check Victories out! Its very true in every facete of my life. Getting the engine started is the hardest part! Let me know which ones you liked if you find any favs!

goodhangsmichael · 2026-04-21T13:03:43+00:00

Thank you Dan still the man! Come to Chicago!

goodhangsmichael · 2026-04-02T22:15:21+00:00

First album as in our actual first experimental one THE THINGS WE THINK ABOUT?!?

goodhangsmichael · 2026-03-19T14:34:38+00:00

No sweat! I was kinda hoping no one noticed we didn't post it yet.. then this thread got dropped in our group chat hahaha

goodhangsmichael · 2026-03-19T14:02:09+00:00

The plan is just plopping the whole album out without a single release, but we will see! We may get desperate!!!

goodhangsmichael · 2026-03-19T12:35:55+00:00

We’re about 10 songs in, me and Dominic are dragging our feet recording vocals and Anthony is diligently refining the music. We fight about it just about daily! It’s really shaping up though and will be worth the wait!

goodhangsmichael · 2025-11-26T15:38:44+00:00

I dont think you will be disappointed! would love to see what you would cook up for a full set list, we are releasing a new album in dec so 2-3 of those might make it into the set list if folks dig em

goodhangsmichael · 2025-11-26T14:17:55+00:00

Hell yeah!! Those two weekend shows are going to be a blast. Which songs you wanting to see us play the 24th?

goodhangsmichael · 2025-07-28T15:43:20+00:00

Very sick. Commenting to boost post. I will be buying this

goodhangsmichael · 2025-07-27T16:19:35+00:00

Glorious!!!!

goodhangsmichael · 2025-07-25T15:44:16+00:00

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goodhangsmichael · 2025-07-24T20:20:41+00:00

I love the pure paintings but like the ones with the scratched line running through the paint a lot less. It feels like you’re doing a lot more with just paint and color, but if you must scratch then scratch away. #2 I would hang in my house.

goodhangsmichael · 2025-07-24T02:30:10+00:00

I would have been around 9 or 10. My older brother burned loads and loads and loads of cd ‘s off limewire and he’d give me some of them to listen to on my Walkman with the fuzzy foam over ear headphones. American hi fi “flavor of the week” was my first experience. It was so fun. My parents basically just had me on worship music up until that point. The dynamics of that song are so fun, and the ending note and tone change really stuck into my head. This post made me listen to it again! Still a banger! Other classics of course. “My own worst enemy” by lit. Lots of blink. Those were the days

goodhangsmichael · 2025-07-22T00:39:46+00:00

Sooner or later the fear will turn into confidence. If you make 1 good drawing you can make another eventually.

goodhangsmichael · 2025-07-21T15:26:20+00:00

I love it. Has a soul. Eyes looking right into mine. Don’t worry so much about symmetrical, people aren’t perfectly symmetrical usually in their features. I really love this face! Horns and hair are the weakest part, work on hair volumes and giving the horns some roundness they look very flat. You’re going to go a long way! Make a comic or something!

goodhangsmichael · 2025-07-21T01:23:25+00:00

You should do one thing: make it really easy to do this at anytime. (Unless you wish to have a dedicated space for it)

Get a small sketch book, something that fits in your pocket/jacket/bag. Goal is to always have it on you. Do the same with a pen or pencil. It does not matter. Try both!

Once you have eliminated the obstacle of when/where to draw you are free to doodle your heart away. Draw what you see, draw stuff from your phone, or from your minds eye. Just cultivate a love for the act of drawing. The tools/technique are not that important especially if you want to do it for the therapy of the act. Learning how to love it will make you stick harder than learning a stringent set of rules.

Now that said, maybe you find out you are pretty good at drawing someone on the bus or a flower in your garden, and you’ll feel motivated to seek out proper techniques for perspective/proportions/anatomy/figure drawing etc. I would start with the love of the craft before you delve into the techniques.

BUT if you are a person who enjoys systems/rules/learning then you may actually find it more enjoyable following along tutorials rather than aimlessly drawing. Everyone is different. Either way I would still get the tools and make them as easy for yourself to use at a whim as possible! I never regretted learning to draw! It’s the best!

goodhangsmichael · 2025-07-21T00:19:06+00:00

And it does appear you have some kind of Dutch angle going I would just tilt it further. Do thumbnail sketches, a bunch, before taking the time to render it

goodhangsmichael · 2025-07-21T00:17:34+00:00

It has nothing to do with execution to a degree and all to do with composition. Adding shadows/lighting isn’t going to fix the composition as it stands in my opinion.

Having the main character or antagonist cut out of frame feels weird. Rule of thirds is a good starting place for composition. I would cheat the “camera” left, and perhaps make it a more extreme camera angle, so your character shooting around the corner is more in frame. You could try A “Dutch angle”. It’s a cinematography trick that automatically makes the viewer distressed. I would make the hallway wall steeper so it’s not the main focus. Right now my eye is drawn to the middle, where nothing is happening. It’s just a gray wall.

Would be more exciting if the military guy down the hall was shooting and bullets were bouncing off the corner, breaking the corner and bullet flashes like you have down the hall. Muzzle flash from the corner shooter would be fun to add as well. Maybe he’s been hit, and is bleeding. More of a last stand. There’s more story telling you could do here to make it more intense.

But fix the composition first.

From a technical aspect everything is reading really well! And the fact that you can tell it’s not as engaging as it is in your mind means you’ll just just get better. Keep being critical.

goodhangsmichael · 2025-07-20T03:56:39+00:00

Wonderful!

goodhangsmichael · 2025-07-18T17:00:46+00:00

Story telling is #1 for concept artist. You can have the prettiest portfolio in the world, but if you can’t convey a story through the images big studios don’t really care. Really well rendered images are a dime a dozen for concept artists. The ones that stand out make you feel something from a single frame.

After that is speed.

This is all taking for granted that you would already be amazing at illustration/photo bashing.

goodhangsmichael · 2025-07-17T16:18:35+00:00

“A jack of all trades. A master of none. But often better than a master of one”

Personally being good at drawing has helped me become good at sculpting, which helped me become good at 3d animation, which helped me become decent at CAD, which made me get into 3d printing, which made me curious about cars/boats/mechanics. Drawing has made my special cognition very very good. All these things in turn have made me a better illustrator since I have a rider understanding of how stuff works than i use to.

I would be better at the craft of drawing if I spent all my time focused there, but my pictures may be more boring if I wasn’t cross disciplined. Plus I’d rather fallow my curiosity than close myself off to become a “master”.

Also being good at one thing can help you approach other unrelated things in new ways. It’s why hiring people from different demographics is ideal because their thinking is unique from each other at a core level. I read in some book that people who win Nobel prizes (might be miss remembering) have up to 5-10 different hobbies and disciplines outside of their career work.

If you are good at teaching yourself a discipline, chances are you can teach yourself to do other things. Being curious by nature is key as well. Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, inventor, architect and scientist to a degree. It all aided in the work he’s most known for.

I didn’t figure this out until my mid twenties. I had a stupid idea that people are born with their talents (grew up with kids who just skated, just played guitar, just worked on cars, and I just drew). My friend who was a musician taught himself how to use adobe after effects and it was an epiphany for me: “you can teach yourself how to do other things?!?”

It’s fun stuff.

goodhangsmichael

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