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[one_two]

I see let me tell you what from my own perspective what is happening your falling into a pitfall right now.My belief is you will start to stagnate.Excuse the saying i am gonna use but it a common saying among professional(not me).There is no use to putting a cherry on top of a unbaked cake.This mean that your result are only as strong as your study habit.Imagination is supported by fundamental once you start to focus on imagination you are at risk of loosing sight of what constitute good fundamental.I am just putting this as a warning so you know to balance your study with imaginative stuff.The general concensus is to study and then from there apply to your imaginative work.The pitfall of not advancing your fundamental is simple it limit your understanding of certain advance principle.When you work on fundamental and you don't apply it straight away to your personal work you don't solidify those learning and it take more time for your brain to solidify those concept.When you work on imagination you start to go toward abstraction and inaccuracy because your no longer pratice observation base on reality.So remember to balance imagination and practice if you would like to progress.

I hope this was of any use to you.

Oh boy, I'm falling already. I should probably start making more studies or i'll limit my understanding "of certain advance principle". :D I'm not against studying but I don't see any point of making art into a sport. Not for myself at least. I don't have this mindset of work hard, study hard, I've written it already. This leads to burnouts, spoiled expectations and sometimes even depression. I don't take art THAT seriously, at least now. These things you've written I've heard and applied many times, while studying in the Art Academy and after that. So there's nothing new to me from what you've written in this post and most of your previous posts. It's a little bit embarassing because you're pointing out obvious things to people who do those things and apply them in their work to whatever extent they can. My work has it's flaws and it is OK. There's nothing wrong in not being 100% precise and accurate. I'm not an engineer or a surgeon. Relax, dude. The only pitfall I'm afraid is a pitfall of becoming paranoid about learning how to draw and paint better. If that's your goal, good luck to you!
This is probably the longest post I've written this year. :D
And no, this wasn't of any use to me other than some practice in replying in English language.