{"id":129434,"date":"2015-10-29T19:29:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T19:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/29\/the-if-youre-not-drawing-247-you-arent-working\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T19:29:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T19:29:16","slug":"the-if-youre-not-drawing-247-you-arent-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/29\/the-if-youre-not-drawing-247-you-arent-working\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cIf you\u2019re not drawing 24\/7 you aren\u2019t working hard enough.\u201d mentality is garbage."},"content":{"rendered":"

fablepaint<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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littlewitchcurry<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When I was in college there was this ongoing competitive mindset from the teachers \/students that:\u00a0\u201cIf you\u2019re not drawing all night \/ getting 1 – 2 hours of sleep, you\u2019re going to fall behind.\u201d\u00a0<\/b>If you\u2019re an artist you\u2019ve probably met this kind of thinking\u2026 I\u2019ve heard it from so many pros \/ tutorials.<\/p>\n

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 had actually previously had something like 10+ strokes without even knowing, brought on by stress, and that he needed to slow down<\/b>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since then\u00a0I\u2019ve heard tons of other stories accounts of sickness and divorce brought on from addiction to work.<\/p>\n

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 breath their work, never going home, barely sleeping, etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What shocked me was that Glen Keane said something like\u00a0\u201cI 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.\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing wrong with\u00a0investing plenty of time studying and drawing, but also be healthy.\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I too had other prominent professionals tell me to neglect sleep, sickness, and family in pursuit of my career. I now have chronic back, shoulder, and hand problems.<\/p>\n

For your health AND your career, remember to eat, sleep, exercise, and make merry. There\u2019s no way you\u2019re going to produce your best work without living a full life. Art requires input after all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

fablepaint: littlewitchcurry: When I was in college there was this ongoing competitive mindset from the teachers \/students that:\u00a0\u201cIf you\u2019re not drawing all night \/ getting 1 – 2 hours of sleep, you\u2019re going to fall behind.\u201d\u00a0If you\u2019re an artist you\u2019ve probably met this kind of thinking\u2026 I\u2019ve heard it from so many pros \/ tutorials. … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “The \u201cIf you\u2019re not drawing 24\/7 you aren\u2019t working hard enough.\u201d mentality is garbage.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[109,338,120,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}