Is it possible to draw for 16 hours per day with occasional breaks?

>>2748269
If you sleep 6 hours, get someone to feed you (or literally shove your face into food while you draw) and take very short breaks, yes..

>>2748269
People mean focus on art for 16 hours. Not actually draw the whole time. Your arm or hand would become exhausted after 6 hours already.

>>2748269

The key is breaking down this gigantic, vague blob of "drawing for X hours".

I draw for 20 minutes, then take 5 minutes to rest my hand, sip some water and look at my drawing or next reference.

Every 2 hours I take a 20 minute break where I take a piss/refill drink/get some air/watch a youtube video etc and I use one of these to eat lunch but I'm a light lunch eater.

So on a free day from 9am - 5pm, 8 hours, I get twenty 20m drawing chunks done or 6hrs40ms (give or take) of pure drawing with 2hrs20ms of downtime. Afterwards I'm free to do whatever the fuck I want, no guilt about not drawing, in fact I don't even think about drawing after dinner.

The way I see it you have to develop a life long habit. Am I going to draw for 16 hours a day every day of my life? Hell no. Can I draw for 6 hours and 40 minutes with generous breaks? Absolutely.

>>2748355
How do you make a living?

>>2748269
>Is it possible to draw for 16 hours per day with occasional breaks?

>occassional
There'd have to be a lot of little breaks and periods of reflection to prevent fucking your arm, but other than that you could theoretically manage 20 hours/day

>Ubermensch sleep cycle
>an hour or so of no screen/canvas time left over for breaks, stretching to prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis, eating, etc

It'd be a nightmare. A beautiful nightmare.

>>2748356

I used to do web design but with no degree it was a pretty dead end job. I started drawing while I was working though, it was just from 7-11 on week days and then normal 9-5 on the weekend but with random downtime cutting in for chores/too tired after work sometimes.

I then figured out I could get paid to go to learn 2d&3d animation if I went on unemployment for 6 months so that's what I'm doing now until september 2017.

Jeff Watts says 6 hours, or 8 hours with a long break in the middle. Take a break every hour to stretch.

I would say up to 12 hours is definitely possible while still getting enough sleep and time to recover. Personally I do 10 hours on weekdays and 5 on weekends, so I have a good portion of spare time.