/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVfV_SQKrU&t=29s

Allow me to elaborate: Does trying to master components of art lead to stagnation? For example, let's say I want to get better at drawing so instead of tackling a wide variety of subject matter, I just focus on hands for like a month or just focus on doing gestures or something along the lines of that. When sycra was developing his style, I remember there was this one video where he spent like 20 pages just trying to understand twisty boxes. Does focusing on minuet detail like that lead to stagnation?

50:50
70:30
90:10

And what is your imagination to reference ratio?

I've been doing 70:30 but I find I'm not retaining much.

Basically 8 plus hours a day.

I draw 2 hours a day and I feel like i'm making sufficient progress.

Also post your imagination stuff.

Do any of you guys on /ic/ gives yourself a "time limit" to get your skills down. Like I wanna be good as x artist in x number of years or I want to primarily focus on my fundamentals for an x number of years before doing mostly personal work/working professionally etc

I ask this because the number of years you spend practicing is much easier to measure than skill level. For example, the better you get the more you learn what you don't know so it's very easy to fall into the pit of studying. I mean how do artists even know when they finally become "good enough" to put fundamental training on the side? I dunno just some rambling. Feel free to share your thoughts.