hanareader

i admit I'm not the best at giving advice i just remember your comment on discord and have seen your submission up for a couple of days. Since Elodin has reviewed your work I think you have enough on your plate. Good luck and keep practicing,

It's a good submission.

The neck of the camel should be an added mass, something that wraps around the neck form. The way you have it now comes off as flat since you treat the extra neck skin as a 2d line. The way you did the neck on your wolf was a lot better.

Some of your sausage limbs admittedly are more like cylinders. It's not bad to use cylinders except they come across as stiff. The sausage method should have a slight curve or direction to give the limb a sense of life.

Your paws and hooves are not bad, i think you are starting to think of them in 3d. What might help is using boxes to place paws/hooves so that you think of them more in angles.

Your faces/muzzles are okay though your demos show your skill a lot better.  I think if you took the time to observe your reference your muzzles would get better. Your observation is clearly already really good i just think you need to take more time.

When you drew the head of your 2nd deer you kinda ignored the initial circle head you made. It's a good idea to start with a smaller circle for the cranium so long as you adhere to it.

Besides that i like your texture, it's really good that you separated the construction and texture.

To answer your question, I'm still in the "loop" and I don't think there's any way to get out.

I don't believe that depression ever really leaves, it's always in the back of people's minds. To me, there's no choice but to work with it.

Motivation or strength isn't what you need, you just need discipline. Routine. Routine is cold; it doesn't care about whether you're happy or depressed, you adhere to it because you adhere to it - it is an absolute.

Make a rule for yourself and you assign the value that rule holds. If I say I'm going to draw for five minutes today then even by 11:55pm I will finally do it simply because I made it a rule that I always do what I say.

I am not an artist. I know for a fact that drawing isn't for me. But my routine doesn't care about my feelings. If I say "I'm going to finish dab" I have to finish it. Then I can quit. It isn't about art it's about changing the way you approach anything.