The 6-month switch in my drafting table setup I was stubborn about

Everyone kept telling me to try a 15-degree tilt on my drafting board. I thought it was a gimmick. After 6 months of neck pain from a flat table in the Austin office, I finally tried it. Wish I'd listened back in March - my lines are cleaner and I'm not popping ibuprofen.

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the_thomas7d ago

...and I'm gonna say it, tilting your board is just a crutch. Flat tables force you to sit up straight and hold your pen right, you know? That little angle just lets you slouch into your work like you're napping at a library desk. Six months seems like a long time to be stubborn but honestly your neck was probably hurting because you were hunching over, not because the table was flat. If anything, this tilt thing is a band-aid for bad posture and people want it to fix everything but really you're just moving the problem around.

mark3617d ago

Jump right in and say I hold my iPad on my lap like a total caveman while I'm watching Netflix and doodling, so tilting anything is a foreign concept to me anyway. I tried one of those fancy tilted boards at a friend's house once and I felt like I was in a dentist chair, not getting any work done. Honestly, I spent a whole afternoon hunched over a flat kitchen table drawing once and my neck was so stiff I could barely turn my head to ask for more coffee. Maybe the real crutch is just admitting I'm too lazy to fix my own terrible habits instead of blaming the table!