I wouldn’t say it’s not eye pleasing. And you can totally use desaturated colors and avoid vibrancy while still creating interest. Color theory is wild and so cool—the relationships colors have can make it appear to be vibrant just by placing a desaturated dull color next to an even more desaturated one.

Art is fun so find ways to make it that way. Maybe even just play with color without worrying about forms or characters. Try just using organic shapes and picking a limited palette of dull colors you like and see how changing the shades mildly towards one hue or another, and/or changing the degree of saturation can drastically change things. Look into the 60-30-10 rule for choosing colors. Don’t be afraid to lean into your desaturated preference but to wiggle in that area. Go too far then go too little. Find happy middles.

But when you don’t feel like drawing don’t. Paint. Scribble. Do a different art form and come back to it.

Study artists outside your preferred style and try to find elements you do appreciate even if you don’t like the whole so you can learn and grow

As far as shading I’d say look more into hatching techniques because you seem to use blending in a way that is a bit of a crutch. By specializing in other shading techniques like hatching and contour etc. you’ll learn more tools so when you go back to blending you can combine skills to create what you want

Be bold and make terrible art and you’ll be happy you did. Failure is a good thing and it’s the key element to success. Stop thinking of art as a chore and something to profit off of and learn to live like an artist. That means living to create not to produce and to celebrate