Ergonmics
12:55 AM, Wednesday October 9th 2024
What is the best posture/table height for drawing using your shoulder? I'm having a lot of neck and back pain while doing the exercises.
What is the best posture/table height for drawing using your shoulder? I'm having a lot of neck and back pain while doing the exercises.
You'll find this addressed at the end of the video from the top of Lesson 0 Page 4.
Awesome thanks! I remembered this being addressed in a video, just couldn't remember which
I found that I have a lot of neck pain, even when drawing at my arms at around 90 degrees as suggested in the video. For example, when using the ruler or trying to do the ghosting method - I often lean my head down to get a close look, causing the neck pain. Any recommendations for this?
Main thing that comes to mind is that you might want to look into a table-top drafting table. It's basically something that provides you with a desk surface that is at an angle. You may have seen the big drafting tables where it's all one piece (I think I mention them in the video I referenced before), but there are tabletop variants that you put on top of an existing desk.
The other answer, which admittedly sounds a little silly, is to consciously avoid leaning your head down to get those closer looks. It's very easy to get the impression that we need to do this, but it may well just be a compulsion that isn't necessarily helping you that much. But, as most things we do habitually, it requires a conscious effort to catch ourselves when we do those things, and correct the behaviour until we stop.
Got it, thank you! I will try to stop leaning my head down, good to know it's not necessary for getting things precise
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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