Doodler and Rapper — Brae
“Drawing is mostly to reduce stress or to make sure I don’t enter a panic attack”
What are your creative activities?
I do drawings, paintings, and music. (making instrumental beats / vocal rapping and singing)
Drawing and painting are an anxiety tool for me to help stay calm and focused while expressing inner conflicts.
Music is fun, my main creative outlet, for moods whether good or bad; I use music more than drawing for bigger troubling thoughts or for pure entertainment.
Can you expand on why music is your outlet for bigger troubling thoughts?
Because I’m able to actually express myself. While drawing and painting is more of a single snapshot.
Do you keep your work? What happens to your work when you are finished?
I keep A LOT, of my work. but i would say 70% of my stuff is either thrown away, burned to ashes, deleted off the face of the internet, ran over by my car, thrown off a building, drowned in a river, or given away.
How do you feel while making art?
Drawing is mostly to reduce stress or to make sure I don’t enter a panic attack, but usually I take whatever mood I’m in at that moment and put it into the drawing. Usually I draw some sorta person or figure that could represent a humanoid animal and the expression on the face or shape of the figure will tell what mood I’m in.
What emotions do you feel while doing your activity?
All emotions. Drawing is mostly a stress feel or to make sure I dont enter a panic attack, but usually I take whatever mood im in at that moment and put it into the drawing. Usually I draw some sorta person or figure that could represent a humanoid animal and the expression on the face or shape of the figure will tell what mood I’m in.
Music is usually a happier mood, or I think of a setting like I’m inside a club, or hanging out with friends, and think of what I would want to be listening to at that moment, and then create a song based on that. Sometimes it can be really depressing. I usually never show anyone those songs.
How do you define creativity?
Creativity: the process of putting your own thoughts into matter. taking matter from the world around you, putting it together, and saying ‘yes! thats exactly what was in my head!’
What inspires you to be creative?
My DNA, not everyone is an artist. but not everyone plays in the NBA or NFL.
Personally, I believe this world is set up for people who think like me to fail. Most people on the streets or who are homeless have creative mindsets, and are genuinely good people. But most artists are lazy. That’s why this world pays good money to those artists who have the mindsets properly set to actually sustain a job and roof above their head, while at the same time, creating art for society to awe at. But if I had to pin point one specific factor that motivates me to be creative? It would have to be Bob Ross and Kanye West along with my mother. I use to watch Bob Ross on tv when I was little, and Kanye’s music has been poppin’ since I was in like elementary school. And my mom always pushed me to draw or play with legos when I was little, so you could say it was because of how I was raised.
