tips for staying awake

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>>2852975
Doesn't run on sheer willpower

Your day is divided into three portions, as an adult.
>Shift
>Sleep
>Free time
In order of descending importance. If you're working 80-hours a week, art's not going to be something you can pursue. If you're not, cut down on literally anything else from your free time, because you're not going to get rid of the need to sleep no matter how hard you fight it.

>>2852975
Go to sleep as soon as you're done with work, wake up, grind art, go to work already tired, repeat.

>>2852982

If I add all the miscellaneous tasks it becomes 60 hour work week. I don't want to quit art though, I'm too stubborn for that.
>>2852986
so I'd wake up at 2am ( ~ 5 hours of sleep) and have maybe ~5 hours to draw. I'll be missing 1 hour but I'll see. I've tried doing this a few times but I become fatigued and go straight back to bed. Maybe running in the morning might help but that takes away time, idk.

>>2852994
8 hours of sleep and 2 drawing are better than 5/5 IMO, you're killing brain cells left and right if you only sleep 5 hours, and the 5 hours you do work are much less effective too.

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>>2852999
Seconding this. Quality > Quantity when it comes to practicing any kind of precise skill, and sleep is needed for that and more.

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>>2852994
60 is a little manageable.
I'd honestly just take the two or so hours I could put into drawing and make sure I spent it well. You have an advantage here. You can do art with a well-rested mind that isn't worried about how it's going to make rent.

>>2852975
Not being an actual baby helps, adults can be up after 11 pm without the need of caffeine when there's shit that needs to be done

>>2853028
You know for a fact that's not true. Adults are super bad and need caffeine. Babies can be up all night crying for your dumb ass.

>>2852999
>>2853001
>>2853006

thanks familytachis, I'll just do 3 hours and maybe after a month or 2 experiment if I can tack on 1 more hour

>>2853028
They can...if they don't have to deal with customers all day sucking every fiber of their creative soul. And for your information I still suck my thumb thank you very mush.