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miss-gardner

The “If you’re not drawing 24/7 you aren’t working hard enough.” mentality is garbage.

When I was in college there was this ongoing competitive mindset from the teachers /students that: “If you’re not drawing all night / getting 1 - 2 hours of sleep, you’re going to fall behind.” If you’re an artist you’ve probably met this kind of thinking… I’ve heard it from so many pros / tutorials.

One of my professors said that line all the time. I loved this dude. he worked at Disney on many of my favorite movies, and my young self became absorbed in this mindset. About 3 years into my degree that professor had a stroke, and when he went to the doctor they said he actually previously had something like 10+ strokes without even knowing, brought on by stress, and that he needed to slow down.

Since then I’ve heard tons of other accounts of sickness and divorce brought on from addiction to work.

A few years later I was listening to an Animation podcast interviewing Glen Keane. He brought up that there were other animators who would live and breathe their work, never going home, barely sleeping, etc.

What shocked me was that Glen Keane said something like “I ignored this idea, and decided to go home every night to spend time with my family, because I could learn just as much from my life experiences with them.”

Anyway I just wanted to take a second after hearing a statement like this again recently and let any young artists out there know that:

There’s nothing wrong with investing plenty of time studying and drawing, but also be healthy.

americanninjax-deactivated20191

This is totally untrue. It’s a well known fact of the animation industry that none of us sleep. We constantly bleed from most of our orafaces and when we’re not crunching deadlines hourly, we form Fight Clubs/ThunderDome to determine who is the best artist in the studio.

Wait, no, the other thing. Please take care of yourselves! Art will never get better if you’re always sick from lack of sleep, eating properly and getting up once in a while away from the computer/desk.

mylittledoxy

What’s the damn point working your ass off to improve for fucking years just to die prematurely. I rather draw till 80 with 70% my potential skill. Tell all my stories, get ALL my ideas out. Then tell a fraction of what I have to say or express but at 100% skill level just to die at 40.

Art and health is a huge deal. Artist are unhealthy BY DEFAULT. Your job is to get your ass in a good rythymn or all those hours sacrificing your life and friends just to fucking die a talented idiot.. Seems bleak.