Bassy here. This will be one of those rare journals were I talk about something that happened in my personal life, somewhat. It's a pretty long one too, but I feel it's worth sharing with everyone, specially other fellow artists.

I have a pretty messed up scheddule, so lately, in my attempts to get through my due art, I try to crunch in as many work hours as I can, more than usual, taking advantage of the fact I'm pretty much self-employed and work at home.

So I decide that, in order to finish my Halloween picture early and move into my other drawings and Windborn, I say "fuck you weekend" and work my ass through what were supposed to be my days off. I'm no stranger to depriving myself of rest and even a few break meals, so it shouldn't hurt me much. Right?

Hours into my work, sitting on the computer drawing, suddenly my heard starts spinning, dizzy, lightheaded and even short of breath. Lasts a few seconds. And it keeps coming back and forth irregularely through the day.

I ignore it the first day. Maybe it was a one time thing. Day two, again I'm supposed to rest but there I was, working on my Halloween pic. It happens again. Milder symptoms again, but same crap. Now it starts to concern me. Low blood pressure? Worse? I tell myself ok, if it happens again, I'll just go to the doctor.

Day three. I wake up early and the first thing I do is, guess what, work on my drawings! By now the Halloween pic is finished, but hey, there's still shit to do. Symptoms happen again. Welp, time to see doctor now.

Good news, blood pressure is fine, as is sugar levels. In most likeliness, it's two things: work induced stress and lack of enough water (which I tend to neglect in order to draw more). Nothing some meds, water AND some real effin rest won't fix hopefully.

Except, you know, I'm the kind of idiot who stresses when he's drawing, but gets even MORE stressed when I'm not. Ever been an artist on a day off and having this weird, naggin feeling that you should stop slacking, get your ass in your desk and drawing something? Anything? Even a lazy ass doodle? Well, that's exactly how it goes.

But, there's no way around it. Either you rest, and learn to enjoy it and not worry about the work you're not doing - and the money you could be doing -, or you get worse, end up heading to the emergency room and lose even more precious hours of work you so badly dreaded to lose.

Morale of the story...REST AND RELAX!! It's hard once you've made a habit out of working a lot, but your health goes first. And that money you were trying to earn and save up for stuff? You'll only end up using it for medical expenses and heading back to square one. Tis a harsh lesson, but an important one. And luckily, no one (me) lost consciousness in the process.

As for my art, Halloween pic is done, so it'll get posted on the 31st. Windborn will get updated this week as usual (thank goodness for buffer). Everything else I had in the works will have to wait up for a few days til my body says it's good to get back in business.

That's all. Thank you for reading and take care, everyone, artists or otherwise! Now if you excuse me, I got an overdue weekend to spend not drawing.~