I got a question about drawing injuries, and I typed up a pretty lengthy response so I wanted to share it here as well.
I get asked a lot about hand strains and injuries, and it is something most artists have to face one time or another just because we work so hard for our dreams. I personally don’t get strains or injuries, both for art and for piano playing when I still majored in it, two main creative paths where hand/arm injuries are common. My hands rarely feel tired and when they do, I stop drawing. So when I get asked, I usually can only offer the fact that you can find a lot of carpal tunnel exercises on google and there’s nothing else I know about relief exercises, other than I find that flinging my hands also help loosen them up a bit.
The most important thing about this issue is actually prevention rather than relief. I would like to believe this approach is what prevented me from getting injured–I’ve never really been a push through the pain type person, and glorifying suffering and pain as a sign of hard work is definitely unhealthy, as those are huge signals from your body telling you to stop. There are many things that I know for sure strains your hands much more than anything else that I will list below, and I believe that, if it is possible for you, the most efficient way to deal with injury is to find out which of these things is the cause and working around it.
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The first big cause is posture; if your arms have no support points (ie you have to hold your elbow up with your muscles or tense your wrist to maintain stability) you will strain much easier, just like how you get tired easier standing at an uncomfortable pose vs a well grounded one. So be sure to seat yourself so that you have somewhere to rest your arm while drawing, while your body is at a relaxed angle with full support. For a normal tablet, rest your arm and wrist somewhere on the table or the tablet. For a Cintiq or tablet monitor, try having it upright so that your elbow can rest on your desk, and your wrist can rest on the cintiq screen, and you only need to use your fingers to control the pen.
The second cause is your grip on the pen. This can be caused by your need for precision/speed of repetitive movement/pressure. Line art, or cross hatching, or pressing hard to get the darkness of the brush you need, are all high stress activities that strains your hand much more than, say, rendering or putting down a base painting. Knowing that, you can:
The third cause is the schedule of your drawing. This may or may not be possible to change because for a lot of us, a deadline is a deadline. But try to space your tasks so that you cycle between intense, detailed, hand-straining work, and relaxing, loose, more brainstorming work. The latter is excellent for hand rest while still being productive creative work. For example, if you are drawing comic pages, it might make sense in terms of efficiency to sketch 10 pages, then ink 10 pages, then tone 10 pages. But when you are inking those 10 pages consecutively, that’s when you give your hands no rest and your hand will start to hurt a lot, while you have no choice but to push through the pain to get the work done. Instead, try to draw these pages one by one, or have a few drawings at various stages of completion to rotate between. eg. you work on inking drawing A, then when you feel your hands are strained, switch to putting down loose underpainting for drawing B, switch back to inking drawing A, then start brainstorming drawing C and think more/draw less. Give your hands some natural times to rest up with less intense work, and you get work done without having to lose time by having to really stop drawing altogether.
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As tempting as it is to try to feel like you are working as hard as you can to achieve your dreams and aspirations, while feeling guilty about resting/taking the more relaxing route, remember that your hands make your art possible, so treat them well!
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In February, representatives of the Vietnam Wall of Southwest Florida organization remounted the Purple Heart Monument at Veterans Park in Punta Gorda. The monument had been moved temporarily while renovations were carried out at the park.
Three of six new granite benches that were added to Veterans Park in Punta Gorda, partly due to donations like that made recently by the Burnt Store Isles Boat Club to the Vietnam Wall of Southwest Florida organization.
PUNTA GORDA — Representatives of the Burnt Store Isles Boat Club recently presented a check for $1, 100 to the organization behind the Vietnam Memorial Wall of Southwest Florida in Punta Gorda.
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The Vietnam Memorial Wall of Southwest Florida, a scaled-down replica of the wall in Washington, D.C., stretches along the east side of Veteran’s Park, located at the entrance to Laishley Park, 120 Laishley Court.
“Through an oversight, our club did not make a contribution to the ‘Vietnam Wall’ project early on and we thought to correct that shortcoming, ” said the club’s outgoing commodore Dennis Waryjas.
“A large percentage of our members were born bracketing the middle of the last-century, with many serving in the military before and during the Vietnam War era, ” he continued. “The sacrifices made by those whose names appear on the wall, and the millions of others who served during that and other monumental events in our nation’s past, should be respected and remembered.
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Fundraising for the wall dates back to 2014 when the organization — Vietnam Wall of Southwest Florida — was able to raise $625, 000 in only 20 months with $150, 000 coming from a state grant and another $50, 000 from a Charlotte County grant.
Groundbreaking for the wall was held Jan. 4, 2016, followed by a “soft opening” in September and a dedication in November of the same year.
“Our fundraising continued (from there) and we were able to build a parking lot on East Retta Esplande, which was sorely needed as there was virtually no parking next to the wall’s location, ” said Dick Carr, of the VWSF organization.
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Major renovations were completed at the park in 2020, including work on parking and streetscape, additional walkways and changes to the open area in front of the gazebo.
“We board members of the Vietnam Wall of Southwest Florida are very happy to receive this generous gift from the members of the Burnt Store Isles Boat Club, ” Carr said. “This helped us build and place six new gray granite benches in Veterans Park that have been purchased by other donors.
“We will also be hiring a granite company to engrave the second phase of donor plaques in the remaining space in the donor plaza.”
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In August 2020, Carr and his team put up the first round of bronze plaques along the Honor Walk— on the west side of the park — that were featured before the renovations.
The plaques primarily honor military organizations — local American Legion posts, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vietnam Veterans of America, among others — as well as some social organizations like local chapters of Kiwanis International.
There are also plans to add a Space Force flag as part of the U.S. Armed Forces flags — Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard − at the east entrance of the park.
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