My eyes BUUUURN

[Anonymous No.4873690]

How do you deal with eye fatigue?

[Anonymous No.4873696]

Is using an eye patch and changing the side every 30 minutes of digital work helpful in any way?

[Anonymous No.4873701]

>>4873696
yeah, you should do that. Do it in public too.

[Anonymous No.4873704]

>>4873690
Are you staring at a screen?
If so, turn down your brightness. Most displays default to way too fucking bright. If you don't have a colorimeter, you can use a phone app like Lux Meter (or anything that can give you a luminance reading) and get your monitor down between 120cd/m^2 to 140cd/m^2.It might look too dark at first, but give your eyes some time to adjust and you won't regret it.

Otherwise I use Flux when I'm sketching or inking. Have to take it out when dealing with colors for obvious reasons.

[Anonymous No.4873706]

>>4873690
it's honestly never been a problem for me

[Anonymous No.4873794]

>>4873690
Walk around outside for a minute and look as far off into the distance as you can. No, this isn't a "You just need to unplug! Get some fresh air!"; when you stare at something directly in front of your face, your eyes cross a bit to focus on it, and if you do this for too long your eyes will get sore. The solution is to look at something far away for a while, which will cause your pupils to diverge, and give the muscles responsible for crossing your eyes a rest.
Alternatively, you can just power through the discomfort, because it doesn't actually cause any lasting damage.

[Anonymous No.4873796]

>>4873690
Take some fucking brakes.

[Anonymous No.4873797]

>>4873690
Use the piss filter aka night light

[Anonymous No.4873807]

>>4873690

[Anonymous No.4873812]

>>4873690
heh... amateurs

[Anonymous No.4873817]

>>4873690
windows 10 has a blue light filter. use it.

[Anonymous No.4873854]

>>4873817
There's a great little program called "KnightVision" with more options

[Anonymous No.4873861]

Maybe you have visual tracking disorder? I have glasses to help with eye strain, no sight problems otherwise

[Anonymous No.4873863]

- Check if your glasses need adjustment;
- Decrease screen brightness;
- Sleep well;
- Keep the room well-lit;
- Don't be a genetic failure.

[Anonymous No.4873889]

>>4873863
>- Don't be a genetic failure.
>/ic/

[Anonymous No.4873946]

>>4873690
For instant relief get pick related or a all natural eye wash made from the boiled herb eye bright.
Blink more often and actively remind yourself to blink. The eyes blink less when we focus. If you are using a screen, put it on the lowest brightness setting you can stand. If you are ok spending money, they now sell blue light filter glasses that don't fuck with the color but stop the radiation/light from the screen and sun from damaging your eyes. Very cheap too. Weird advice if all that fails but cut gluten out of your diet for a week. If you notice your eyes are more moist, congrats to have hashimoto's disorder like I do and your body shows the bleached white flour intolerance through drying and irritating your fucking eyes.

T. Eye issues for years

[Anonymous No.4873957]

>>4873817
Wouldn't this distort your colors?

[Anonymous No.4873960]

>>4873690
Rub charcoal in them

[Anonymous No.4874374]

>>4873690
I've had this problem for 3 fucking weeks now. It's irritating me, and I know it's gotten worse. Going to an eye doctor tomorrow, I can't draw like this.

[Anonymous No.4874410]

>>4873690
I only draw tits and that cancels out any eye fatigue that might happen.

[Anonymous No.4874458]

I just let them burn.

[Anonymous No.4874557]

I found this neat trick to stop this from being an issue, its called quit being a lil bitch

[Anonymous No.4874674]

I'm using a timer. Every 15 minutes I turn my eyes away from monitor per one minute then I set the timer again.

[Anonymous No.4874956]

I bought some blue light glasses. I used yellow tinted sunglasses before.

[Anonymous No.4874987]

OP here, I lowered brightness from 45 to 5, I was already using night light before too, will start taking breaks more often too. Just the brightness alone helped a bit. Thanks for all the recommendations.