Introspection

Lately, I've been looking back at my gallery and looking through my older pieces. My 'golden age' - this was about 2 or 3 years ago during the summer - brought about some of my best pieces I still look back at and admire, but lately I've been feeling unmotivated. Drawing on a laptop can be mentally exhausting, for often I find myself developing intense headaches the day after spending 10 hours strait staring at a screen, and let's not mention how time consuming digital art can be. I've noticed a pattern in my art, and I think I prefer to start taking on small art projects that usually involve drawing a full-body single character. And this is going completely in an opposite direction of my artistic development. As someone who has been on deviantART for almost 5 years, shouldn't I be moving away from the standard frontal POV and start delving into more difficult subjects? Shouldn't I be learning to conquer architecture and other backgrounds, overhead perspectives, and proper anatomy? Working on collaboration projects, while fun, ends up hindering my progression.

At the same time, I've been spending the past years working more on drawing and characterization. Instead of just drawing a character posing, I've been sketching and throwing my characters into scenes in order to give them depth and personality. That skill, I can happily say, has been worked on. 

But anyways, I fear that I'm possibly developing a shorter attention span, due to all the time I spend on the computer. I was praised in my early years for having an exceptional attention span, but now I feel like I'm more willing to drop projects midway after losing interest in them. Should I be faulting myself for doing so? I find some of the best art pieces are those you devote so much time and energy towards; switching projects at the drop of the dime can't lead to anything. _{Though recently I have docked at least 30 hours on a huge pen and ink piece.}

Bottom line, I need to do more work. It's summer vacation, and I'll never have this much free time to do whatever I please.