Can getting /fit/ possibly enhance your drawing abilities?

Yeah 3-10 hours a week spent on NOT drawing sounds like a great way to get better at drawing. You fucking retard.

>>2951656
probably, i've been pretty fit and pretty unhealthy in my life and the difference between the two in terms of mental faculties is a lot more than one would think. i don't think you need to be like super fit or anything but an hour a day at the gym really made a difference for me (mainly on that weird arm swingy leg swingy machine, i only did like weights and stuff 3 times a week)

>>2951660
It does actually. Physical health and fitness improves your performance at pretty much any task that requires concentration. Not to mention it increases your testosterone levels, which leads to a general increase in motivation and productivity.

>>2951660
This, don't listen to /fit/science over here >>2951672

>>2951656
I'm autistic as fuck. are they actually aroused by this guy or are they just shocked because they were expecting a more normal looking model? anyway yeah exercise is great for a lot of things, mood, heart and cardio vascular health, etc. I'm sure you won't regret exercising once you're an old geyser.

>>2951675
They're amazed at his physique since that isn't the norm in Japan. What's considered the ideal male there is tall and skinny and being buff (or even buffer than this guy) is associated with the gay scene there. This could possibly be the first /fit/ guy these girls have seen irl.

>>2951660
Actually sometimes I stop drawing for a while, and when I come back to drawing I... Improve? Weird.

>>2951675
/fit/izens need to convince themselves getting /fit/ will change their lives because they have nothing else (because they're the same anime watching, video game playing losers as 90% of the site)

Like they pretend the gif of the reporter gushing while interviewing the buff bronze guy is about his physique, and not about the fact he is talking about dedicating a match to his dying mother

>>2951679
Who bullied you, anon?

>>2951679
oh yeah, /fit/ is a horrible toxic place. I think the best exercise to do is cardiovascular and whatever you personally find fun.

>>2951682
Sounds like /ic/ desu

>>2951660
>>2951660
it's not like most people here spend whole their days drawing, and so an hour of two spend on working out and not playing videogames, watching films or browsing the internet will not hurt them.

Working out makes you healthier and makes you feel better, as well as gives you more energy, so you can actually draw more.

>>2951685
I don't even have a problem with bodybuilding or powerlifting, but /fit/ seriously sucks. everyones "ironically gay", everyone there has BDD, STEROIDS, it's considered cool to be constantly full of lust and checking girls out all the time because, it's just the fit lifestyle brah, bitches are mirin and want to fuck like animals all the time brah, the board idol is a druggie that OD'd in a sauna, etc.

>>2951656
Why wouldn't a healthy body and healthy brain do anything but good for your work? You probably don't need to get buff though, just some kind of daily exercise that breaks a sweat.

If you want to get real deep into health, look up the recent research on gut bacteria and how diet and the digestive system affects mental health.

>>2951681
>look, I'm projecting

>>2951682
9/10 would be baited by again

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Getting /fit/, as in following the 4chan board wont necessarily benefit you.

But you better believe a healthier body will yield better creative results long term. Any of you proselytizing this nonsense about only drawing every waking hour of the day are brainwashed by radicalism. It will not last.

You are an organism. One with a metabolism, meat brain, emotional state all interconnected. You are not a robot, and you will not simply advance by brute force alone through the arc of your creative career.

You may get away with neglecting your body in your youth. Because you're whole self, in conjunction with the organism is growing and expanding. Everything is new. But one day you will cease to grow and expand. Your living system will reach a state of equilibrium. All the constant youthful revelations will taper off. Not too mention that eventually your body will develop pains and aches you never anticipated.

Your subconscious will demand the care of your body. If you do not care for your body, your temple, your vessel carrying you through reality you will suffer for it. Your expression, your creativity will show evidence of your vessels neglect. You need to take care of yourself. A healthy diet and exercise will benefit your art in the long run.

If nothing else... Take a fucking walk once in a while. You will be better for it.

>>2951675
It's staged

i found that jogging or any kind of cardio made my mental health much better and i stopped feeling like shit all the time.

>>2951701
/fit/ =/= fit

There is absolutely 0 drawing benefit to being /fit/.

>>2951656
Yes it very much did
Help me really understand anatomy so much better.

>>2951701
To bounce off this. One of the major things that helped me understand musculature and dynamic movements was playing sports.

Images of how limbs twist, muscles flex, etc are ingrained in my mind from being active and seeing others active in team sports. Could work for the gym and other activities as well though.

Nothing you couldnt observe as a lazy fuck sitting round the world. But having the intuition of the body is helpful

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>>2951709
Clearly you never seen SIR's work
http://imgur.com/gallery/241LJ

>>2951656
It can definitely help with stamina, alertness, general brain function, and just overall mood. If you work large, or do sculpture, mobility and strength definitely help.

I look at it as a holistic thing - healthy body, healthy mind. The better I take care of myself, the longer I'll be around to make more art. I plan on painting into my 80's or 90s.

>>2951674
That's not really "/fit/ science", that's common sense that literally any physician and doctor will tell you as well. Phsyical health and fitness is beneficial for you and it's a very important thing to offset health issues later in life when you have an inactive lifestyle that requires a lot of sitting, like most artists do.

>>2951660
Quality over quantity, brainlet.

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>>2951656

If you're not drawing you're not getting better

However being fit (like a legit year or 2 of 5X5 at least and a complete diet overhaul) definitely has it's mental benefits, your mind feels a lot sharper and clearer when you work out regularly as opposed when you're depressed you might struggle to study for even an hour.

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>"haha dude exercising and getting /fit/ totally improved my motivation"
>says the person that had the motivation to get /fit/ in the first place

>>2951802
You don't need motivation if you have discipline you dyel fuck.

>>2951802
if you dont even have the motivation to do a workout one hr a day how will you ever do anything in your life?

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>>2951709
>>2951802
I started drawing like 5yrs ago and started getting fit almost 3yrs ago and i can tell you that even tho i spent less time drawing and use those hours to get /fit/ was just as beneficial as before where i would spend every waking hour studying. You can only focus a finite amount of hours in the day so you might aswell give your brain a break and train your body for those 45min.
Even if you dislike /fit/ culture i can say that even when i wasnt drawing i was improving my anatomy just by looking at myself in the mirror in the gym doing exercises. By looking at yourself working out you see how the body moves and functions and top of that you memories how body looks like.

Besides who wants to look like a skinny sensitive artist, that is a brainless fool who thinks he can git gut with 8 hours of drawing a day.

>>2951802
positive momentum my dude. You don't need the motivation to train like a pro athlete when starting out, just the motivation to do 5-10 minutes of bodyweight exercises a day to turn it into a habit.

>>2951802
I've never even a single time enjoyed working out. I just recognized it must be done and I did and I still enjoy the rewards of it every day.

I went from fat to a normal weight and I noticed my anatomy in drawing got better. Maybe because I was examining my own body more as a result or something.

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It doesn't hurt to work out, even if you're avoiding strength training and just lifting a 20-pound weight.

>Can getting /fit/ possibly enhance your drawing abilities?

Yes, because the process of getting fit is the exact same as getting good at drawing.

Fitness is a good comparison since your efforts over time manifest itself directly on your body, and unless you've ever got fit, you will never know how much of an impact it makes on your personal being once you look back from where you came (this can really be said about anything, but the difference is it impacts the way the world responds to you, and how you respond to the world).

Once you get fit, you can easily apply that same repetitive grind for anything.

>>2953232
> You can only focus a finite amount of hours in the day so you might aswell give your brain a break and train your body for those 45min.

This. Only actual autists have the ability to focus hours on end on the same task.

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>>2951660
>Yeah 3-10 hours a week spent on NOT drawing sounds like a great way to get better at drawing. You fucking retard.
Exercising, reading, going on walks, having a social life gives you input and down-time to charge your batteries. Sure if you want to live a constant nightmare of perpetual labor be my guest, but guess how much down-time you're going to get when you burnout/develop an RSI condition?

>>2951677
>This could possibly be the first /fit/ guy these girls have seen irl.
Not true, Hiroshi Tanahashi is /fit/ af and he's a superstar in Japan.

>>2953320
>>This could possibly be the first /fit/ guy these girls have seen irl.
>Not true, Hiroshi Tanahashi is /fit/ af and he's a superstar in Japan.
I'm not sure you know what "irl" means.

>>2951674
It's true tho. Not the testosterone thing but it does make you feel a lot better and happier, thus more productive because of the energy gain.

>>2951675
they're not anything, they're on some shitty variety show, they're paid to be there and have whatever reaction they're supposed to have.

>>2951728
he's shit i dont get your point ?

>>2951675
Japanese women often act like children, the reaction is nothing more but an act in order to seem "cute".

>>2953232
Post your work and legs

>>2951656
it'll help you keep your wrists good & activity generally helps your ability to focus and not feel like total garbage. at the very least try running a few times a week and see how you feel, take a sketchpad and find something to study while you're out there

All other things being equal (IE drew same subjects, studied same material, both had the ligameme, etc) then the physically healthy anon will be better than the unhealthy one.

Being /fit/ won't make you a good artist, but it good physical health is basically requisite for good mental health, and good mental health is incredibly helpful for learning to draw.

>>2951656
I'm getting fit (not /fit/) and at the same time I'm studying muscles more than ever before in my life. Though probably I decided to do excercise due to wanting to draw muscles on buff guys better. Anyways, I think working out definitely helps you learn about anatomy faster and better.

>>2951675
Japanese women often act autistic to seem cute. They're probably surprised because they've never seen a guy like that before.

>>2954054
I bet every penny I've ever touched that you're australian.

lets say that working out was a way for me to be exposed to a learning process other than drawing and thus helped me understand how learning and getting better works IMMENSELY, upon seeing the results ive gotten from working out and understanding how i got there. i could draw a lot of conclusions that seem evident but that i never could really feel such as "everything in general is always harder in the beginning" "you actually do get better at things if you do it everyday" (seems evident but you feel it a lot more when you work out) ive also understood a lot better what focus meant, working out and bringing my body to a balanced state helped me get out of hyperfocus and into actual controlled focus, etc, a lot of things, there's A LOT to it, understanding what you have to do to keep yourself from giving up, developing mechanisms against giving up, etc, but most of all there's knowledge of discipline - also you feel healthier, happier, more confident, seriously if you get the chance to workout do it

>>2954646
and on a less serious side unrelated to art ive never been as successful with the opposite sex

Getting fit makes you a better person in general.
Everyone should have a mental hobby and a physical activity, don't neglect your body because you are enlightened by your own intellect and having a nice body is for the chads who bullied you.
Fitness builds confidence and increases your ability to work with that confidence.
Mirror now has all anatomy ref clearly.

>>2954660
I can't wait for the spider uprising in australia

>>2951701
This man is right. Don't draw 12 hours a day, you morons. Be more well-rounded.

>>2951656
Being buff would be useless, just exercising everyday like a normal person is fine. Otherwise you're wasting your time on something unnecessary when you can put it into your arts. This is especially so because it takes alot of upkeep for that physique. It's also very unappealing to be a muscly woman unless you have a fetishist for a husband.

>>2951675
Japanese TV is the kingdom of fake excitement and overreaction. Especially the females are supposed to act like dumb babies.

Getting /fit/ is useful because then you can use yourself as a model reference for a bodytype that is hard to come across otherwise in the normal population.

>>2953321
I misread the post, sorry.

>>2951656
I guess you could draw for longer without getting tired if your /fit or maybe even keep your drawing hand more steady?

>>2951656
If you have a sedentary lifestyle it's extra important for the sake of your posture and health in general.

>>2954632

Worse, Canadian.

>>2951670
>that weird arm swingy leg swingy machine
kek

>>2951656

No it doesn't enhance your drawing ability. Practicing drawing is what will enhance your drawing ability. But, being healthy does help with concentration. You don't necessarily have to be fit. You just have to not be a fat lazy fuck.

>>2951656
>all those kneesocks
There's nothing worn with giving them a boner to sketch right?

>>2951656
i already train my wrist everynight

Reminder that we're all going to make it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eun9cT-bupw

>>2954783
Yeah man, for sure. I know if I continously move my hand around the 8x5 drawing area of my tablet for any longer than 10-15 minutes, I'll have to take a breather and wipe the sweat off, maybe chug a gallon of water. Talk about a killer workout.

>>2951656
OP that gif is really cute. Is it from a legit game show or something or is it one of those jap pornos that pretends to be a gameshow?

>>2951660
you implying you don't have any free time to do anything else to better yourself? lmao

Well, while i was getting /fit/ i understand more the muscles propertires and their movement
And that help me a lot
And i improve my discipline and energy

>>2956678
It's just a show with idols. Idols always do funky games.