I do calligraphy!
This is visually beautiful but makes me long for a few days ago when the weekend was ahead of me.
Build stuff for burning man
Make skirts!
Cool. Want to share a pic?
Decorating my house
Making small games
Writing poetry
Cooking
I do other creative things, but I’ve been paid for most of them at one point or another.
I’m so bad at decorating!! I’ve lived in my house for 20 years and it’s mostly a collection of “i guess i don’t hate that.” I actually hired someone once to help me choose paint colors. Ended up with three different shades of tan.
I cook for the family. It’s not the cooking that’s creativity for me, most of the time, it’s the menu planning that is the hardest to think through.
Omg! I complain about this all the time! Deciding what to make is by fast the hardest part!
Creating memes…
Cook, bake, crochet, cross-stitch, oil paint, watercolor, party planning etc I hoard hobbies but don’t do any of them professionally since I already have a job. They are all hobbies I enjoy
DM/GM from time to time.
Do you have a game of choice? I’ve just finished running a Dresden files accelerated game which was a lot of fun.
D&D and Pathfinder are the main ones, and Genesys sometimes when I can convince my players to give it a try. Currently trying to maybe get something going with Cyberpunk Red.
Admining a Lemmy instance isn’t especially creative but at least I don’t get paid for it.
I bake for my families and friends, and i sometime do wood working too.
Music. I’ve played guitar for 30 years, can play drums, bass, piano, etc… never earned a dime. Played shows but I’m still in the hole as far as acquired shit.
I thought I didn’t have much to tell, but turns out, I could have said the same. I did earn a tiny bit at one point when playing local venues and recording demos for local bands back then, but it was basically just gas money for the band most of the time lol
One might say photo art. Am registered with every group on the net.
I play music at home, sometimes recording it. I have zero interest in monetizing it. The most I’d like to do is collaborate and make music with others.
I also ran a YouTube channel for a few years. Made about twenty cents from that.
Apart from the YouTube stuff, I’m similar. Writing, arranging, recording, mixing, etc. Simply because I enjoy it.
It’s been a while, though. First came kids and other life-related things to take up most of my time. Plus I migrated to linux in 2014 or thereabouts. But I recently found a DAW that I like, and that works great on linux, so as soon as I find a decent drum and piano synth I’m back in (not doing) business.
Does your DAW not have those built in or are you after hardware?
There are built in ones, but I want something realistic sounding to go with my (real) guitars
Most modern DAWs will have plenty of realistic sounds, it’s getting them to play realistically that’s difficult.
Edit: forgot you use Linux.
Performance art is a passion project. There’s absolutely no money in it. I’m lucky to get $100 a gig. I also absolutely HATE that I have to use Instagram while constantly facing an uphill battle of PG-13 censors.
What I do get is a shit ton of really cool photos, skills, and props, as well as a loving community
I try to make electronic music, mostly with a laptop but I also have some equipment. It’s really just to scratch my engineering itch.
Photography. I mostly use my phone but I have a proper camera which is for my very specific use case.
I’ve been doing both of these most of my life, my father gave me my first camera around 10yo and I got into electronic music at about the same age.
My son is using my old camera a lot now, and he’s making music on his PC. Which is very pleasing to me.
My brother is really into making electronic music too. Last Christmas, he said he really wanted a Stylophone. I got him one, but first had him open a gag gift that was a child’s toy Xylophone and was like “I heard you really wanted one of these”
