how caffeinated are you?

[fish~]

I work,

1 cup for the morning drive
1 soda/iced tea at lunch
1 latte from the hot girl at starbucks @ 3:00

*minimum
somdays ill have way more

durnig my school day all nighters in studio(arch) i noticed that caffeine kept me awake but i drew like crap

during track season I drank water only for all nighters and could work affectivly till around 3-4, but then i hit the wall

now work is 90% repitition and 10% creative so i getting it done is the priority which=more coffie!!!!

you guys notice any difference while on the joe?

[DragonGX]

Ivebeen caffeine free for over a month :beer:

[sic1]

Iced tea, and water -> no caffeine
No coffee in the mornings, because I wake up a few minutes before I walk out the door, and I usually don't stop at a starbucks, although

Originally posted by fish~
the hot girl at starbucks

That would give me the kick of some caffeine alone. :)

I think caffeine forces me to get more sidetracked than I already am (which is bad in itself).

[geoffd]

i've been drinking coffee since 3rd grade and i am now 27... so that's like almost 20 years? anyways i worked my way up to round about 10-13 cups a day, sometimes more. i think the best i've done was about 22 cups.... all i know is when i went for a blood test, my blood was brown!! hahahahahahaha
i'm now at 2 cups a days.

[F3nix]

I'm always on coffee..

Morning I wake up to a cup of java.

When I get to the city, I grab a bottle of Starbucks Mocha or Vanilla Frapuccino

During the day I grab a bottle of BAWLS, High Caffeine Guarana Drink...

I then get a Ice Cold Frapuccino in the afternoon...usually just take sips... my gf drinks the rest... she's a caffeine junky too :-p

Plus.. I get a Coke Classic, the one with the caffeine still inside..


then at night, I brew up a pot of java to work..

[Kortez]

Regular coffee is about as foul as a donkey's a**.. i couldn't drink it to save my life. However... Cappuchino and iced coffee. Those two rock!

But I don't drink either, water will do a much better job and won't get you addicted. :)

[mcotie]

Vitamins 1st.
then coffee from 5 am to 1130 am small break from caffiene till lunch. the coffee has to be hot, milky and sweet.

Mt. Dews from 12 to 4pm

Milk and beer the rest of the day/eve. Not together, just.

mitch

[jwo]

im down to a cup of tea, and a glass of iced coffee a day.
maybe ill start my pot of coffee morin sketch sessions again.

[WildSpruceMoose]

Been on coffee since grade 8 every other day and now every day. 1 cup morning, sometimes 2, drinks at lunch including coke, pop(soda) when I get home or in the afternoon at school, pop(soda) with snacks at night sometimes. Yeah I'm hooked on caffeine and sugar real good :p

[Android]

coffee?
i buy redbull by the case, sometimes 2 cases at a time, i have had so many in the course of a 38 hour day that i completely lose track.

yes my liver is bleeding :(

[little spanish eddie]

Caffeine?! Weak!

Meth!!

[cotron]

i go through spurts of massive caffeine intake, then none at all for a month or so... I find I'm less tired when I'm not on caffeine than when I am. Like someone else said, it keeps me awake, but I can't do anything but shitty work that way.

[fish~]

interesting side note..found out today that the hot girl at starbucks got a new job down the street....@ hooters!!!!!!!!
screw coffie its hot wings time!!!!

[van]

Coffee...all the time. All day...until bed time.

[OLSEN]

Regular black cofee, between 3 and 5 cups per day. When im on a tight deadline those numbers triple. Unless im on a really tight deadline, then i drink no cofee, i just eat tons of chocolate and increase my fat and salt intake by eating potatoe chips, keeps me going without any loss of brainpower.

[AfroLaxMan]

depending on how early my son (5 mo. old) wakes up, and how noisy, I may have some fresh brewed right away (french press, the best way!), that way my sone and I have our liquid breakfast together.
I get in the office, head straight for the brewer, get another pint o' java. sip on that hot shake juice till around lunch. Iced tea, big one. work through lunch, get another pint of go juice around 3-ish. Then i chug 2-3 glasses of water so i can work out and not dehydrated into a raisin.

then, around 8 or so, feeding my son's last meal of the night, I crash so hard, I need my fiance to carry my weak ass to bed.

[van]

LMAO! You crack me up, Afro. I sooooo feel your pain. 2 times now and about to be 3 times come December. :p

[skrubbles]

As soon as a i wake up I brew the coffee before I even take my morning piss. I drink 2 cups of that and by noon I switch over to pepsi and usualy have about 4-5 of those through the course of the day.

If I'm working I'll wake up a few minutes before I have to get out the door (cause I'm lazy) and have a cup of coffee when I get at work... btw, mcdonalds (where I work :( ) coffee is pretty f*cking nasty. While I'm at work I'll have about 3 large cups of coke. Then when I get home I'll have about 3 pepsis and try to get some drawing done... though lately I've been playing FFTA on my new GBA SP.

[cucaracha]

no coffee here..

Just sweets, sugar helps me to concentrate more...

cu

[Blackhawk]

I quit caffeine cold turkey 3 years ago. I used to drink a 12 pack of dr. pepper, plus 6 bottles of that shit a day. I swear, my blood was running Dr. Pepper in my veins. It eventually made me so exhausted to drink caffeine that I quit it and felt better since. It's weird, it ceased being a stimulant for me and turned into a complete downer.

[nova]

just talk of coffee makes me want to get some.

it helps me draw. it's trendy. it's so warm. mmm. see, 3 good reasons to have at least one a day keeps me drinking it :) here i go off to downtown seattle to have more!

[Dan Milligan]

Two a day. One at 5:00 a.m. when i get into the studio and maybe another at 2:30-3:00. More of a ritual than a need.

Had a Red Bull the other day for the first time--ZING!

Dan

[egerie]

Double espresso SHORT from time to time.... I try to avoid getting coffee after watching how completely addicted some people can be to it.
The coffee machine I have home is just gathering dust... I could use one now zzzz....

Aline a.k.a. egerie - "Ici, on prend un café. En france c'est du KAFÉ ! AVEC UN "K" !!!" -Courtemanche ?

[endregan]

nah in the end caffeine is bad for ya. i used to be an addict and i needed it, but thats no more.

water or like mellow yellow or mt dew, sprite. stuff like that.

believe me youll notice a difference. you can not have caffeine and do well, its only natural :) (other than obscene amounts of sugar) haha

[WildSpruceMoose]

Oh man my concentration hurts when drinking coffee IE: amount of time I can sit down and do straight anatomy or lighting studies without walking around is about 30min to an hour. I suppose I should start cutting back at least a bit.

[Deadsprite]

ok, just because i was prolly the worst with caffeine and still am (running on 2 days of no sleep when writing this.) when i was taking my semesters of hell (5 studio art classes all different mediums) i would have a case of dew in a cooler in my car for when i got thirsty and ussually had to replenish it daily. i also in the mornings would drink (literally) a pint of chilled expresso i brewed up the night before (with lots of sugar in it). and i worked at barnes and nobles with the 50% discount on coffee in the starbucks there. lets just say ... i did copius amounts of art, and barely slept. now ... now caffeine is a nice pick me up when i'm working hard core on a series of drawings. like tonight :) and yes, coffee tastes like a dirty @sshole.

[Erik]

I used to drink about three pots (ehm, about 1.5 L) of coffee each day. So much that i would get headaches of caffeine deprivation on holidays. I rarely went on those. When i drank black booster a couple of years ago (before it was downgraded) i did not feel a thing. I couldn't sleep either unless i had some coffee first (?!) I found out that coffee makes me feel tired and kills my creativity.

Now i quit coffee, down to one cup a day in the morning. Sometimes another one in the evening, although i usually drink tea (the G.F. factor).

I drink over 2 L of water every day. I do not feel tired anymore. It's just very good for your body, just try it.

Kick the habit!

[Fipse]

I´m working for nearly 19 years now in the ads therefor my blood has for long time been substituted for this black fluid ... but at least I´m in the last time so sensible to drink a glass of water with every cup.

Fipse

[jwo]

KONA!

[nova]

what erik said about the water. if you drink it often, you don't have to worry as much about what you eat [quoted by an ex-personal trainer friend]. i keep a glass by my desk to unconciously drink of in idle moments.

[sparth]

how decaffeinated am i? 100% decaffeinated !

can't drink coffee. not that i don't like the taste of it, but when i drink one, it's a bit like if i had hired a personnal earthquake device for my hand and body. so it's a nono as i must keep my senses clean when i create.
i even have troubles drinking coke...

sparth

[Patrick Pion]

haha!:p

[daG-ELLO]

cough...

Wake up... Dr Pepper, :beer: go to work...

Lunch, Biggie-sized Dr Pepper... :beer: refill at work with 1 or 2 :beer: :beer: more cans of dr pepper...

Come home... Dr Pepper... :beer:

Dinner, Tea... 2 glasses (large glasses) :chug:

Working on comptuer later... 1-2 dr peppers :beer: :beer:

Bed... glass of water.

Did I mention I don't know the reason why I can't get to sleep at night? :bigeyes: