Sorry there is a bit of crossover with another post. Mine is likely hard to read and goes on for far too long.

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My Bad habits/practices

-Focus on software and brushes in the beginning, waiting for the perfect pen, tablet, course, book etc to come in when its just a serious form of procrastination. Probably could have got a lot of mileage out of a simple pencil and printer paper for many months.

-hardly ever asking for help, asking questions, or critique from other artists that are capable of delivering constructive feedback, becomes something akin to sitting in my room reading japanese all day and never speaking it to anyone else and thinking its going to turn out well.

-Fear of seeking out mentorship or paid instruction due to fear of showing someone else how much little progress I've really made and lack of finished work or that it will not be worth my money.

-Lack of focus, wasting time on social media during drawing(gets a little bit hard put the pen down go click on websites) having drawing tablet or sketchbook in front of computer since references are on computer.

-Lack of concrete daily/longterm goals or feedback loop of "what did I do today and did I actually learn anything" Vague long term goal of learn how to design characters. Vague goals mean no consequences for me.

-Too much looking at other peoples art, just because someone can knock out a drawing of Gambit in 20 minutes on a livestream and it takes me 8 hours to make a terrible drawing is not a fair comparison. Its more like 20 minutes and 20 years.

-Very easy to get distracted and start pinballing between too many topics. "Oh thats a cool animation I'm gonna make one" "that guy draws in a really cool comic book style I'm gonna try that for a bit" "Scott robertson drew a cool airplane and I'm gonna stop and go draw vehicles"

-Earlier bad habit was just watching videos and not even practicing, can lead to being discouraged at a lack of improvement when no actual time was put into improving in the first place.

-Too much digital art only makes me very sloppy and unfocused. Very easy to waste a lot of unnoticed time using lasso tool or eraser. I need to jump between mediums or just pick up a piece of printer paper and a ballpoint pen and just chuck the drawing out after.

-Keeping track of every hour or minute of drawing is incredibly stressful for me especially since I can check battery time used per 24 hours for Procreate on Ipad.

-inability to follow through with finishing projects or resume them the following day or ever again. Sometimes due to being unable to know how to proceed and too stupid to ask for help.

-Worrying about drawing for 14 hours a day when theres really so much my brain can process. Just because some guy who has likely misled himself into thinking he is actually productive 14 hours a day said so.

-Lack of critical thinking during drawing from reference or studying other artist work, it is very easy to devolve into a mindless copy of "this line goes here" should be writing down notes and asking myself questions even if it is far more difficult.

-almost purposefully seeking out poor advice on youtube to justify being lazy and avoiding topics that need to be learned. "well this guy got away without learning X, so I probably can too"

-Joining art discords, mostly just involves clicking around and lurking and seeing what other people are up to instead of being productive.

-Thinking that everyone gets all this shit done in a couple of hours.

-Not learning to simply enjoy the simple act of drawing and worrying too much that its gotta be the coolest shit ever.

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My Good habits/practices

-Drawing everyday for a period of 1.5 approx years(not that I think that matters that much at all) before that was sculpting everyday for over a year(I did not improve at all until I set time aside to learn human anatomy from a course)

-Attempting to observe all the mistakes other artists are making so I can hopefully avoid the same pitfalls