/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Thread about problems that interrupted your art career/hobby

>Be Animation Student
>Currently aspiring and working very hard to go into CGI or serious 3d animation
>Painting is a long time passion
>Work as a cook to help pay for school and living costs
>constantly using my right hand, basically nonstop at this point
>Wrist pains for 2-3 weeks
>recently spread up to my inner palm (alone the thumb to Palm area)
>go to docs
>Anon you have carpal tunnel quite severely, you need to not be using your hand that much at all, and let it go down
>Can't paint
>Can't even digitally paint on my newish Cintiq
>Hurts to masturbate
>still work, but it's incredibly painful
>Worried my artistic skills will start to grow rusty, but can't continue to work on things without shooting pains
>Can't even play damn vidya's for long because it gets painful