I find that I really love learning how to improve in art. It brings me unrivaled joy to figure out things like how a hand looks doing this, or how to draw a head doing that.
However, I’m wondering if any of you like the process of art studies? I know that I tend to put them off because I’d rather be drawing cute characters doing cute things than doing a figure study for an hour. I like art studies as much as the next person does, I just find it more fun to draw personal projects and incorporate references as a way of studying.
I’m getting a kick out of studying music theory. (Not actually studying, more just poking around with it.). It’s cool to understand why a song sounds unfinished until it lands on a particular note, or why some chords go together nicely while others don’t.