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Why Genre Deconstruction Matters for New ProducersWhen you first start making music, genres can feel like cages. You might think you have to follow st...
Imagine you are a child sitting on a carpet, surrounded by a giant pile of LEGO bricks. There is no instruction booklet. You can build anything—a cast...
You've probably felt it: that moment when a track grabs you, but you can't quite explain why it sounds like 'house' versus 'techno' or 'indie rock' ve...
Every creative professional knows the feeling: you're staring at a blank page, a design brief, or a campaign outline, and the usual moves feel stale. ...
Every pixel artist hits a wall where the same tiles, the same color palettes, and the same character archetypes start feeling stale. You have drawn th...
Why Genre Deconstruction Matters: My Personal JourneyIn my early days as a digital artist, I struggled for years trying to emulate the pixel art maste...
Introduction: Why Genre Labels Are Just the Wrapping PaperFor over a decade, I've worked as a music producer and educator, and the most common frustra...
Imagine you're making a pixel art sprite. You don't start with a 256-color palette—you pick maybe eight or twelve hues, map out the light and shadow, ...