02-01-2014, 08:25 AM
My scientific hat is quite small and flat, but I recall our bodies do most of the detox and defrag and regeneration between 2300 and 0400? That said I do like working alone in the silence of the wee hours of the morning. Also eating less heavy stuff like meat or big bowl of pasta helps your body get ready to go with less sleep. My guess is those stuff takes longer and more work to process in our bodies.
"Eating, drinking or smoking anything within 4-5 hours of going to sleep will interrupt REM and not allow your body to do its rejuvenation thing." Wow really? I almost always drink something right up to the point of going to bed, ranging from herbal tea to whiskey... I mean one gets thirsty not drinking anything for 5 hours!
A nap certainly rejuvenates you, but the moments of just waking up from that 20 minute nap were murderous!
... I have always been an Owl, but I am freakin determined to be a Lark! It ain't our kind to accept our fates and not seek change! I am aware I might never wake up earlier than 6am without the pressure of working at a factory, or being in the Marines, or in prison, but that's still only 7hr sleep compare to if I let Sloth have its way with me until noon...
So far I've already not go to museum for 2 days, one being armor study is better from vids than from armor propped up on a stand, and I just rode the armor wave and drew the entire day of armor. Friday I scratched it all because I really needed progress on 3D project again. The day at the museum was very exciting and sent me on an art high, but simultaneously it was aimless, as I didn't have a goal in mind, and just wandered through the halls until I randomly picked a room to sketch random skeletons in. It was still fun, but it'll be better if I go in with a study goal and motivation in mind.
Yeah I agree the schedule is too tight, and already a lot of things have changed. I think the museum won't be daily anymore, but I will have to keep the 3D training up, and instead of going after the standard Creature-Character-Environment-Prop/Vehicle quartet for concept art, I will try to prioritize studies that pertain to what I have in mind for the personal comic project, which covers 3 of the 4. So follow a human anatomy book, go to museum to draw animal skeleton and specimen. As I flesh out the story, and partake in some forum event somewhere (or fanart, anything where the design idea/criteria comes from not-me), I should encounter more need to study, say, props, etc. Then there'll be more motivation as well as clearer goals to hit the museum.
Let's all do our best at fighting whatever's going against our productivity! HOLD TH-*gets smacked with brick *
"Eating, drinking or smoking anything within 4-5 hours of going to sleep will interrupt REM and not allow your body to do its rejuvenation thing." Wow really? I almost always drink something right up to the point of going to bed, ranging from herbal tea to whiskey... I mean one gets thirsty not drinking anything for 5 hours!
A nap certainly rejuvenates you, but the moments of just waking up from that 20 minute nap were murderous!
... I have always been an Owl, but I am freakin determined to be a Lark! It ain't our kind to accept our fates and not seek change! I am aware I might never wake up earlier than 6am without the pressure of working at a factory, or being in the Marines, or in prison, but that's still only 7hr sleep compare to if I let Sloth have its way with me until noon...
So far I've already not go to museum for 2 days, one being armor study is better from vids than from armor propped up on a stand, and I just rode the armor wave and drew the entire day of armor. Friday I scratched it all because I really needed progress on 3D project again. The day at the museum was very exciting and sent me on an art high, but simultaneously it was aimless, as I didn't have a goal in mind, and just wandered through the halls until I randomly picked a room to sketch random skeletons in. It was still fun, but it'll be better if I go in with a study goal and motivation in mind.
Yeah I agree the schedule is too tight, and already a lot of things have changed. I think the museum won't be daily anymore, but I will have to keep the 3D training up, and instead of going after the standard Creature-Character-Environment-Prop/Vehicle quartet for concept art, I will try to prioritize studies that pertain to what I have in mind for the personal comic project, which covers 3 of the 4. So follow a human anatomy book, go to museum to draw animal skeleton and specimen. As I flesh out the story, and partake in some forum event somewhere (or fanart, anything where the design idea/criteria comes from not-me), I should encounter more need to study, say, props, etc. Then there'll be more motivation as well as clearer goals to hit the museum.
Let's all do our best at fighting whatever's going against our productivity! HOLD TH-*gets smacked with brick *