Artists, Protect Your WRIST & EYES (with these tips)!

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Are you experiencing WRIST PAIN or diminished VISION? 💢 This may be the result of improper artist habits! As artists, practicing healthy routines is the best way to invest in success! 🤓 Follow along with instructor Jessie to learn about wrist and eye symptoms to look out for, as well as tips to ensure ergonomic well-being.
🕓 Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:13 - Wrist health tips
0:35 - Do wrist stretches
1:26 - STOP drawing if your wrist hurts!
1:58 - Prevent carpal tunnel syndrome
2:54 - Use ergonomic stylus/pencil grips
3:34 - Eye health tips
4:04 - Symptoms of bad eye health
4:23 - Don't directly face a window
5:05 - Make your eyes look far away
5:41 - Don't hunch over your work
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@Wingedcanvas 9 ай бұрын

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@tatsubakesyuki9201 9 ай бұрын

I had to get carpal tunnel surgery on both wrists... I've been dealing with them since 2019 and am still dealing with pain that prevents me from doing things for a while because of how bad they were. This can't just develop from drawing, but from many repetative motions. Please, please please take care of your wrists.... You never realize just how much you use them until it's limited

@mythro3599 9 ай бұрын

Been struggling with a wrist injury for the last 4 years now. Looking forward to this video

@tikaepixwhom666 9 ай бұрын

I think my eye and wrist health are the two things I've actually done a good job maintaining. Hooray for me! I also train in Jiu-Jitsu, so I definitely pay attention to my wrist health for that!

@Tori_T_Artist 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the wrist tips! I injured my dominant (left) wrist in a car accident 2 months ago. I had to stay off of drawing for a full week, and even then, could only draw for short periods (so no animating). It's better now, but it still aches after about 30-60 minutes, depends on what I was doing and my wrist posture. I wanna take care of it to prevent further injury, as I plan to work in the animation field, so thank you! (side note, recently I got a laptop stand that angles my laptop, and my wrist feels soooo much better while I'm typing now)

@Wingedcanvas 8 ай бұрын

We're happy to have helped! Hope you have a smooth recovery and get back to making art soon.

@ponderingpeony9571 9 ай бұрын

I tied my hand with bandages to develop the habit of drawing with my arms, besides learning to do more with my left hand to give it a rest

@mave_mave 9 ай бұрын

I have a bad habit of hunching forward, i gotta work on it more :)

@Drolfox 9 ай бұрын

The comments about eye health really got me 🥲I am extremely myopic and am currently doing eye exercises so I don't end up freaking blind and/or needing surgery (I am very much looking forward to getting LASIK when I can though....) Look after your eyes people, you don't miss them till they're gone!

@paulwoodford1984 9 ай бұрын

Eye exercises can actually be dangerous if you over do it. The eye is not actually a muscle. What’s helped me improve my eyesight is a good diet. Stop drinking alcohol, and stop smoking if you do. stay hydrated, eat things like spinach, carrots, fish, foods rich in lutein, caronoids. Plus at least thirty minutes of good exercise every day. I have improved my eyes by one whole myopia in both eyes. They are still pretty bad but for that sort of improvement at the age of 38 is pretty damn good. Lasik is still not going to be a long term solution. if your eyes start getting bad again, another procedure is not recommended Take care

@grimdarkartist9176 9 ай бұрын

Myopia is caused by the shape of the eye being too short. Your eyes have a lens inside them to focus the image of what you’re seeing on your retina and glasses help the light focus correctly like if your eye was the correct length. The big concern for artists is making sure your eyes don’t get dry from staring at your work for too long and if you’re a digital artist, not damaging your retinas by staring into a light source (e.g. your screen). Once you’ve finished puberty, your eye doesn’t really change shape anymore. The big worries when it comes to vision tend to come with age, namely cataracts and presbyopia, which is when the lens in your eye gets stiff and can’t focus on things close up anymore. You can’t really prevent those parts of aging. If your optometrist/ophthalmologist gives you exercises to do, you should do them, of course. They would know more than me. I had to do exercises when I was younger, not for myopia but strabismus (the muscles that move my eye has issues). This is just what my college education has given me so far.

@Drolfox 9 ай бұрын

@@grimdarkartist9176 Myopia can definitely be caused by incorrectly shaped lenses, but in can also come about from issues with the focusing of the eyes that you aren't born with; this is why some people have perfect eyesight when they are kids but develop myopia when they are adults and sit at a computer focusing at a short distance for hours at a time. And your eyes absolutely change shape after puberty - not as dramatically of course, but because tissues and cells are dying and regenerating all the time your eye never really stops growing or changing.

@grimdarkartist9176 9 ай бұрын

@@Drolfox I meant the eye as a whole is too long (I said short previously, but that was incorrect). The lens wants to focus the image on the retina, but the correct projection would be closer than it is, hence glasses correcting vision. This is what is generally what congenital myopia is and other causes tend to have other, more specific names. For example, nearsightedness from an astigmatism or strabismus preventing the eyes from focusing on the same object through positioning. Maybe I’m focusing too hard on myopia as just that physical thing, since that’s how I learned it and just haven’t had someone use it more broadly than that before? When myopia is explained in the anatomy and physiology classes that’s usually how it is, with a little diagram showing what someone is looking at and where the projection through the lens would focus best compared to where the back of the eye is. I did look it up and eyes continuing to grow longer past puberty as a result of focusing on close objects for longer periods of time (e.g. as a result of smartphones) seems to be a relatively recent discovery, which would be why it didn’t come up during my class.

@user-gq4wb2hj1x Ай бұрын

Hey! Idk if you're still keep on your surgery but please do look into success rates and side effects! I've run into information of folks who've gotten Lasik and run into permanent issues after a year or two.

@candiedchiliarch 9 ай бұрын

i am sadly already in the tendinitis club since age 18 from drawing too much v_v take care of your wrists, kids

@PerryPictures 9 ай бұрын

as someone who's had 2 lasik eye surgeries, and ongoing wrist pain (in both hands) I concur! I wear wrist wraps on both hands (but esp my dominant hand when drawing) and eye protection (when I haven't lost them to the void that i my house). I also turn my digital canvas color from white to grey before I start drawing which I thinks helps.

@readwrecks 9 ай бұрын

I was told that carpel tunnel syndrome can go away on its own if you catch it early. The way I understand it, there’s a groove that runs across several of your carpel bones. That groove is lined with connective tissue similar to a ligament. Inside that groove you have tendons and nerves and more connective tissue goes over the top of it. The connective tissue lining and covering form a tube and that is the carpel tunnel. Carpel tunnel syndrome is when that tube gets inflamed through repetitive motion and stress from the tendons running through it. If you don’t try to push through the pain, if you stop what you are doing and let your hands and wrists rest, maybe ice them, the inflammation settles down on its own. But I was told this stuff at a safety meeting at a warehouse job. I don’t know if that makes it more likely to be accurate or less.

@lilychimakes 9 ай бұрын

Yes! PLEASE do not ignore these. I wish this video came much sooner, as my sister and I ended up needing glasses to see far away- these are all very true points! PLEASE take care of your wrist and eye health,because you’ll hate it if you don’t.

@adeptgirl3454 9 ай бұрын

An easy mnemonic for the eye exercise at 5:00 is 20-20-20: every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds.

@-stryker-1784 9 ай бұрын

as a Splatoon enjoyer and artist, I could see the wrist stretches infographic coming a mile away LOL

@kalebbandit 2 ай бұрын

my additions: -COMPRESSION GLOVES OH MY LORD. I live by those things. -I'm hypermobile, and that wrist brace? My physical therapist reccomended that one to me and omg its amazing. wrist pain/numbness? GONE.

@ariannarodgers4239 2 ай бұрын

Can I ask what kind of wrist brace you use?

@OpusMagenum 9 ай бұрын

I would like to add to this, as it was not something I ever considered before. If you have hyper mobility in your fingers or wrists (Like me), abusing that flexibility for a while, even accidentally, can also cause injury. I suddenly developed pain and tingling in my palms and wrists as well as my elbows that made drawing or desk work impossible. I spent three months in a hand therapy clinic getting massages, ultrasound and working on exercises to help counter the pain, and learn how to not flex my wrists as much. I also got finger splints to prevent my fingers from hyper extending. This plus a compression glove and braces for sleeping made it so I could use my hands again. So just because you were born to be double jointed or hyper flexible, doesn't mean you should do it all the time. It can do damage in the long run if you aren't careful.

@zoruasnivy 9 ай бұрын

PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOUR ARMS After many years in my teens hurting myself while doing art and playing video games, as an adult my arm finally had enough when I began to do desk work at a computer. All because I didn't look after myself, now my arm suffers tendonitis and it hurts just to do daily activities. You don't know how much you NEED your arms and wrists in day-to-day activities until you can't use them.

@no-tg6cq 9 ай бұрын

I've been struggling w de quervain's for months now and the healing process is so slow and painful thanks to just how long it took for my tendons to even begin to heal :'D i cant even draw or use my phone for a long time without the pain flaring up so much. its kinda depressing tbh i lost so much interest in art lately from the pain that has pretty much been steadily building up over the years of me stubbornly not taking breaks when drawing something💀💀 thankfully sleeping w a wrist brace on does ease the pain most of the time

@daviio Ай бұрын

oh i guess ive been preventing carpal tunnel without even noticing, i just did some of those exercises because it made my wrist feel stronger

@Wingedcanvas Ай бұрын

Good for you, keep it up!

@Multiversal_Studios_Offical 9 ай бұрын

For someone who has been wearing glasses for a few years now, All that she is saying is completely true i recommend it if you dont wanna have to wear glasses 24/7 or worse, I findthat if i spend my entire non-working day doing something like writing or drawing, or just reading/sleeping I find it difficult to focus on far away objects and it causes instinct tears when my sight is so blury so if you do have glasses(or not just eyes in general) letting your eyes see far away things often can be a big help, as yesterday I did that and my vision is much better for far away objects than the few days before. Keep up the good work!

@anastasiagoldyn118 5 ай бұрын

currently paying the price for not taking enough breaks or stretches during art school and kinda wished my teachers stressed this ( not praise students for not taking any breaks) Now having a lot of problems with my wrist and currently in my first full time illustration job.

@softminkzies3599 8 ай бұрын

i love how this video came up on my feed a day after i had to black out three 18x24 sheets of drawing paper with charcoal within a 2 hour class 😅

@midnightfriesian4495 9 ай бұрын

I'm glad you went over this.

@Hootowlsonly 9 ай бұрын

I got tendonitis once in grade 9. Couldn’t write or draw for a while and for like a year specific repeated motions hurt to do. It sucked big time when I got it but thankfully the damage wasn’t irreparable

@katyishere 9 ай бұрын

When I went to the physiotherapist for wrist pain, she said that supporting my elbows when using my wrist helps

@sunny99179 4 ай бұрын

Ice and an movie when you feel any pain. Never ignore that tiny little pain😮

@j33t78 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for thi video ❤

@chilledburrito 5 ай бұрын

One thing that annoys me is drawing on a table/desk that is slightly to high, it means your upper arm is not relaxed, your forearm is holding weight leading to higher wrist use, equalling OW. I had to do this for a while and it meant not being able to draw for longer than maybe 30 minutes before conking out.

@ClumsyFaerie 9 ай бұрын

I have nerve damage which I think is gonna turn out to be carpal tunnel syndrome and I'm artist 😭😭 this came from a work injury. You saying ifni do have this I can't draw anymore has literally brought me to tearsb💔😭

@AwroreeArts 9 ай бұрын

Back in june my doctor suspected I might have some sort of early carpal tunnel (yup at 15) but the cause was from using a laptop keyboard so much so I just got a mechanical keyboard which helps a lot. My screenless drawing tablet helps a lot too since I just rest my hand (with a splint) on a flat surface and move most of my arm to draw and its also put me into a better sitting position

@samankucher5117 9 ай бұрын

good advice :)

@nicolenesteyn7259 9 ай бұрын

My left wrist sometimes hurts for a few days but Idk why I don't draw with my left hand I draw with my right hand 😟

@lucikens666 9 ай бұрын

mine too

@JoyceW-Art 9 ай бұрын

What do you use to draw with? Cause I've had my right wrist hurting, but draw with my left. I noticed that when I use the hotkeys on my Cintiq my right wrist is at an angle that stretches the tendons and makes it hurt if I keep it in that position for too long (I've had the bad habit of resting it on the tablet as well instead of my desk). The problem has been fixed my resting on it less and being more aware of the positions I put that wrist in and correcting myself. Of course there are lots of other reasons why it might hurt. It would be good to keep in mind what you're doing with your non-drawing hand while you're drawing as well.

@nicolenesteyn7259 9 ай бұрын

@@JoyceW-Art ok

@fxvg7091 9 ай бұрын

Everyone talks about carpal tunnel but that's just a single type of injury, but RSI is the overarching injury. I had RSI for 7 years and it ruined my ability to work (not an artist, but general office jobs) whilst I was recovering. Take care of yourselves. (I had chronic tendonitis, bilateral epicondylitis)

@Demon-egg-roll 5 ай бұрын

When what you need to keep your body and wrists healthy is behind a pay wall that is a bit to high to jump, for now all I can really do is stretch but I can't really fix my posture because I don't have a desk or table, my chair is a beanbage chair and my room and my drawing area are the same place and i manly do traditional art so if I'm not carful I can get my bed stained with maker or accidentally break a light or clock, because my eyes don't like bright light but also needs light and glasses to see.😢😢

@PoptartWrites 7 ай бұрын

been drawing for as long as i can remember. i have both arthritis and carpal tunnel. im 21 now and my wrists and hands have been hurting so bad i can hardly pick up a pen. it was so bad not long ago i couldnt even sharpen my pencils so i had to invest in an electric sharpener. im hoping i can just wait it out bc i cant afford surgery, but the itch to create is unbearable.

@mariaaparecidaalvesnascime8659 9 ай бұрын

My mother is a teacher and she had carpal tunnel syndrome... I remember that she wasn't even able to hold a mug without her hand simply letting it fall. She wasn't able to sleep without a brace because of the pain. Gotta take care of yourself.

@VizzyInks 9 ай бұрын

I am going through diagnosis of god knows what on my right hand, knee and feet at just 20 years old. You guys have NO clue of how much you will miss being healthy when it's permanently gone. Take care of your bodies. And pray your immune system likes you 😂 lol (Thanks for the vid! I love your chibi sona and the tips overall)

@MirageAu 9 ай бұрын

thanks for this video it's very helpful. and about wirst exercises, do you need to do that only before you starting to draw or just from time to time while doing that?

@AshyProductions 9 ай бұрын

My digital pen has buttons where the grip would go, buttons that I use regularly. Guess that's not an option.

@FrancisTheBerd 2 ай бұрын

My wrist started to ache 1 or 3 months ago and since then I've been resting and trying to return, I need to improve but I'm just wasting time again and again. I wanted to have something with my art, maybe a career but honestly I give up, I will never make it if drawing simple things (I draw simple things because I can't do much) I can't last an hour

@idiotthatdrawsakaartist 9 ай бұрын

I'm 18 and only experienced strain in my wrist once or twice at most, yk damn well ima be looking out for my wrist more now. I'm not anywhere close to carpal tunnel and I don't intend to get to that point XD

@SnowlyLika 9 ай бұрын

oh god, I just told my doctor my hand needs to learn to stop being selfish and that society depend on it, there's work to be done.... He wasn't happy about that. guess he was right all along

@jollyrose7198 9 ай бұрын

the hunching is hard to avoid because I can’t find my easel and if I did, my sketchbook pages could get ripped because my easel isn’t that good and it’s a big vertical sketchbook with the spiral at the top. (I have had a page rip out and I do not want to go through the process of putting it in again.)

@BlenderRender1 6 ай бұрын

2:40 my mom had carpel tunnel surgery and she can't even get carpel tunnel anymore because she had the surgery.

@Wingedcanvas 6 ай бұрын

Oh wow! That's interesting, I didn't know that!

@EpicoMarko 9 ай бұрын

What sort of things do I do while my wrist is aching? To rest them? Since a lot of what I do involves using a PC in some form

@user-le1ve3lk9u 9 ай бұрын

Me pasó lo de los ojoooos 😭😭😭😭 Antes veía bien HD pero ahora solo veo bien lo que tengo a menos de 5 pasos

@echidnaralsei1473 Ай бұрын

my back!

@_StarlightRose_ 6 ай бұрын

I am horrible at taking breaks due to adhd, but does resting and stretching for like 10 minutes after 45 minutes of work sound reasonable?

@nelsonpixie2658 8 ай бұрын

My chiropracter told me that a wrist brace actually makes your wrist weaker, so do not use a brace, unless your doctor says you need to wear one

@littlebighead4482 9 ай бұрын

okay but where di you get your cow headset cause I need it so bad???

@Wowwwzaaa 4 ай бұрын

I do paint by numbers and omggg my fingers tingle after awhile. I do rest it, but gee it’s annoying. Do paint brushes have that grip rubber thingy, so it’s thicker?

@sroloc459 9 ай бұрын

Does anyone know if there’s ergonomic grips out there for Microsoft’s Surface Slim Pen 2? It would be a serious hand saver!

@baltiir2953 9 ай бұрын

off topic buuuuut where did you get the headset from? my daughter (who wants to be an artist) loves animal ear headgear.... I'd like to see if I can get her some :) More on topic for your watchers. both me and my wife are artists, she suffers heavily from carpal tunnel and I get elbow pain which stops me drawing and sleeping when if flares up. one of my close friends was a webcomic artist and now she cant draw or even use a game controller. ... seriously listen to the advice in the video, your body is not invincible and please please PLEASE don't ignore the signs, it only gets worse if you dont do something about it!.8

@Ella-gw3me 9 ай бұрын

What's your favorite color of the alphabet true or false? Mines checkered apple 🙂👍

@totoro3007 7 ай бұрын

I am more prone to metacarpal syndrome because not only do I love art, I love piano too. Oh no

@-themightymittens- 8 ай бұрын

Me sitting here with a hurt wrist rn from (I think) drawing lmao My sonarpen has a thick grip on it

@Hazzzy505 6 ай бұрын

does using a mouse help with wrist health at all? I use one by default but i was just wondering if a pencil would be better than a mouse

@Wingedcanvas 6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, a mouse is typically worse for your wrist health when drawing! It's not a very natural pose for our wrists. :'( You should definitely invest in a pencil/stylus/etc.

@raquelt1250 9 ай бұрын

I have arthritis so uhhh stretching stretching stretching I guess

@raquelt1250 9 ай бұрын

Please stop...I have all the symptoms of carpal tunnel...my fingers go numb in my sleep and it wakes me up...like why

@CixenMori 9 ай бұрын

youre telling me jessie isnt a little gremlin stick figure in real life??

@sdg1 28 күн бұрын

Pro tip: DO NOT JOIN MARCHING BAND WITHOUT LEARNING WRIST STRETCHES, WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE **actively running away from a plane made of mellophones**

@sdg1 28 күн бұрын

of all the creative things I do I didn't expect marching band to be the thing that gave me carpool tunnel yet here I am learning wrist stretches to keep it from getting worse [and/or flaring up] as I draw lol, the semi betrayed me 😔