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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 636337" data-attributes="member: 9045">Ahh, that was what I needed to hear.  I apologize for the impression.  I hadn't intended to the comment to come off as "Noone with a real job suffers as much as I do" exactly, but that "noone I know (as in, personally) does".  It was a statement of "in my experience", which I will readily admit is not all-encompassing.*snippage follows, for brevity*[/b]True, unfortunately I have suffered from near-blindness my entire life (to the point that I have never experienced depth-perception save for about 5 minutes when I got the glasses I wear now, about 8 years ago, and gods I couldn't stand up straight from the dizziness that new sensation caused, LOL).  So, because of that, no matter what environment I draw in, it's the same, because I have to keep my eyes some 4-8 inches away from the paper (and, in extreme times, my nose actually rests on the table).  This is neither here nor there in regards to artists in general, but it's my personal plight.  I'll tell you, though, if I could manage a nice rig that I could lie on, hovering above my table, that would be SO neat.  heheI'm not above selective prejudice, I like to be at least honest enough to admit such, but that I came off as elitist in this way bothers me, and I apologize for it, it wasn't the impression I was going for.  Earlier on in this thread, there seemed to be a movement towards "artists have it easy, compared to people with 'real jobs'", or at least that position had been mentioned (perhaps I followed it too far, if so, my fault again), and what IU was trying to do was show that artists don't have it easier, and actually have it harder than some people (definately not all).  I'd hoped it would go without saying that any profession could make that claim, but obviously it didn't. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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