I broke my dominant hand /ic/, and i'll have a cast for 2 more weeks. What can I expect in terms of drawing skill loss? Is there something I can do to reduce it?
Nothing that you can't recover from. Don't break it again in the future. Now make a cast that can hold a pencil and start using that shoulder you've been honing for a moment like this.
Just tape your drawing implement on.
Drawing skill loss? From two weeks? If you stop riding a bike for two weeks do you suddenly lose the ability to ride? No. It might take you a minute to get back to it but you don't lose anything permanent.
Drawing is all in the brain, you could begin drawing with your non-dominant hand now and end up close to your original skill level when the cast is off in 2 weeks.
>>2548154
from somebody who had his hand parallelized for 2 months:
>you might lose some muscle mass so try to easy yourself into drawing again, draw fewer hours and try to use tools with high opacity when needed to to limit pressure
>do exercises and stretches, start with handweight (get it? bodywieght) then 0.5 kg, then 1 kg and so on. I\ll assume you know a little of forearm anatomy to know what motions affect what muscles
>you'll get bored a lot until you'll take off the cast, so watch some movies, try to expand your visual library
>draw with your off hand. Again, less than you used with your main hand, since your off hand isn't used as much with the stress.
and remember to build some muscle mass for the future, it's easier to recover from potential accidents and also your muscle can act as pillow for your bones and nerves. If you lose a muscle is no biggy, you can work around that by doing a muscle transfer from somewhere else from your own body or by changing your movements relying on a complementary muscle, but if you lose a nerve you might lose control over half your hand muscles and I haven't heard anything about nerve transfers
>>2548280
>Drawing is all in the brain, you could begin drawing with your non-dominant hand now and end up close to your original skill level when the cast is off in 2 weeks.
so, so wrong. Some artist which rely on visualization and know already what they want to draw, see kjg, who might be able to pull that off. But there are artist which rely more on searching the form thew their hand movement, see sycra (his style is not molding on what he has in mind, but he\s molding his style based on what kind of strokes he likes to do with his hand)
also this>>2548188
you should put a picture of your hand OP, not stoke picture, so that we can see what movements you can still do.This is also a good opportunity to learn to draw from you arm
op here.
I gave drawing a shot today, and it turned out just slightly worse than my usual
>>2548444
Turns out all you need is 3 fingers and a shoulder. I guess I have no excuse now.
Thanks to all anon's who replied!
>pic related, its me.
>tfw still can't play vidya thou
just be glad ur not in LAS
>>2551408
cruel
