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Artists, Protect Your WRIST & EYES (with these tips)! | Winged Canvas | YouTubeToText
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This video, part two of a series on healthy lifestyles for artists, focuses on the critical importance of maintaining wrist and eye health to ensure a sustainable and productive artistic career.
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This video is part two of a three-part
series that's all about healthy
lifestyles for artists. If you missed
part one, be sure to go back and watch
it for tips about ergonomic equipment
and posture. In this video, we'll be
covering wrist and eye health. Wrist
health. Boy oh boy, another artist
lecturing you about wrist health. Don't
you know it, cuz it's true. You got to
hear it over and over and over to get it
into your brain. Always watch your
wrist. Always watch your wrist health,
right? It is your money maker. If you're
going into art as your career, your
wrist, that's the thing that's going to
make you money. Make sure that you keep
it in good health, right? You need to
protect your wrist from strain and
injury so that you can draw for longer.
Do regular stretches. I did I didn't
exercise at all in high school, anything
like that. I don't I didn't really
exercise. I don't have a regimen, right?
The thing I exercise was my wrist. I did
so many wrist stretches. There's this
guide. I can't remember if it was an
artist or if it was Nintendo itself that
released it, but there's like a Splatoon
like stretching guide, you know, the
game where it's like they tell you this
one was called like the satellion. There
are so many good stretches that were
supposed to be for Splatoon players,
right, who play for very long periods of
time, but they're also really, really
good for artists. So, make sure that you
are doing a lot of those wrist
exercises. Try to draw with your arm
more. Loosen your grip on your drawing
utensils that you're not stressing out
your nerves, right? That's why,
especially with traditional artists, you
guys, if you're working with paints,
you're working with charcoal, you want
to make sure that you are using that
entire arm, right? Don't just use your
wrist because that's a smaller range of
motion and you're going to be stressing
out these nerves that are within your
wrist a little bit more. If your wrist
starts to hurt, stop drawing and let it
heal. If your wrist starts to feel like
it is hurting while you're drawing,
don't push through it. No, no, no. Stop.
Just stop. It's a lot better for you to
just stop drawing. Put a brace on it or
just like don't work with it at all and
just let it heal for a couple of hours,
maybe for the rest of the day, right?
You don't want to stress out your arm
too much. You don't want to stress out
your hand too much. You don't want to
stress over your wrist too much. It's
going to lead to injury, right? So, you
want to make sure that you are resting
that wrist so that nothing bad happens
to it. Wrist braces also help with
avoiding carpal tunnel as well.
Do I have like all of the symptoms of a
carpal tunnel memorized? Of course not.
So, I have a list here that I will read
off for you so you don't get carpal
tunnel and so that like you know you
know the signs. Weakness when gripping
objects with one or both hands. Pain or
numbness in one or both hands. Pins and
needles, feeling in the fingers, swollen
feeling in the fingers, burning or
tingling in the fingers, especially the
thumb and the index and middle fingers,
pain or numbness that is worse at night
and interrupted sleep.
Pretty bad. If you end up having carpal
tunnel, right, the only two ways that
you can help with that is like it
requires surgery. Um, like you can only
help with it with surgery and you won't
be able to draw anymore. Pretty bad. I
don't think that you want that. So, make
sure that you are keeping a track of
your wrist health. Getting a separate
grip for your drawing utensils is also
ideal if they don't have one, right?
Apple pencils, normal pencils, pens,
brushes, etc. A grip super super useful,
super super ergonomic. You want to make
sure like that you are holding the
pencil in a more natural way. If it's so
tiny, you're going to have to squeeze it
more, right? So, if you have a grip, a
thicker grip, the Cintiq pen, like Wacom
pens, they have a very, they have a
built-in grip. It's nice and it's like
thick and squishy. It's a really really
nice holding in pencil. My Surface Pen
doesn't have a grip, so I do need to get
one for it. I keep forgetting. But the
Apple Pencil as well, also a lot of like
iPad artists will use a grip, too. So,
make sure that you're watching for that
wrist health. Make sure you're watching
for your hand, your eyes.
It's kind of funny that like me, I'm
like lecturing you on how you should
like watch for your eyes and like I'm
wearing glasses. So, you know, I I guess
I am just like
an example
very similar situation to your wrist.
You need your eyes to see not only for
your artwork but you know to see.
I hope you want to keep your sight. So,
make sure that you are watching for your
eye health as well. If you notice your
eye health diminishing, write some
things that could be happening to you.
blurred vision, dry eyes, headaches, or
like heightened light sensitivity. Some
of the things that can happen to you
when your eye health starts to diminish.
Number one thing that you probably
shouldn't do that I learned um back in
high school is that if you are working
on a PC, if you're working on a canvas,
doesn't matter what, you shouldn't have
a window as your backdrop. So, if you
have your two screens right here, right,
behind it should not be a window. You
notice that my window is behind me,
right? It's should be that the light is
going onto whatever you're working with,
not that the light is coming at you. I
know that like having a window as your
backdrop is good for like, you know,
lighting cuz it's natural lighting, but
it's bad for your eyes cuz you're just
kind of staring into the sun all day.
Not great, right? Pretty bad because you
are straining now. The screens are
competing with the light behind it. It's
the same thing with a canvas. You're
It's also just not good for your canvas,
right? You're not getting any light on
your canvas. you're getting like back
lit which is like not great anyway. So
you kind of want that light directly on
it or to the side. Very very similar to
getting up and walking taking a rest
right every 20 to 30 minutes get up look
somewhere far away so that you are you
know resetting your eyes and like giving
them like an exercise so that they're
not just looking in one place all the
time. So you want to make sure that you
are looking somewhere farther away to
test your depth perception to test if
your eyes can focus far away. Again, if
you can't really focus that far away,
congratulations. You need glasses. But
if you are able to focus far away,
you're still a okay. So, make sure that
you are, you know, getting up, walking,
and looking far away as well, so that
you're not just looking at the same
distance every single day all the time.
Also, artists, I know what you do. I
know that you hunch over, you lean over,
and you decide to look at your work, and
you're like so tiny and close cuz you
want to get all those details in there.
Step back, my friend. Nobody's going to
look in that far. If you are working on
your pieces and you are like sitting so
close to your work, you're not seeing
the big picture. You're also just
hurting what your work looks like
because you're so hyperfocused on one
section, you should back up. With desks,
it's more ergonomic to have your
monitors a full arm length away from
you. It should be the same thing with
your canvas or your sketchbook or
whatever it is that you're working on,
right? You should have it so far, it's a
little bit farther away so that you're
not straining your eyes too too much.
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