look a lot of people are saying you should sleep on stuff and come back to it and 9/10 thats great advice but sometimes it truly is a turd and you did put a lot of effort into Polishing that Turd bc the undersketch was actually weaksauce but you couldnt see that while you were straight up applying chrome to that turd but then you peel off the chrome and youre like look maybe the chrome was the turd and you try to apply a simpler more straightforward approach to let the looseness and energy of the original shine and you discover the original drawing and construction and composition is actually the root cause. the rot started from the moment the pencil touched paper. and thats okay
if you've never engaged with a creative art on a regular basis you need to understand that it requires concerted effort to get into "the groove" to make something and every second that it takes to get into that groove causes physical pain, but the only thing worse than doing it is not doing it.