Wow! So much reading! (I did a lot of gaming but not as much reading, myself.)

Congrats on your art progress! One of my friends who does a weekly comic for FFXIV commented that one thing she has learned while doing it is speed--so her lines aren't quite as crisp and perfect as they used to be, but she produces comics almost twice as fast at a very close degree of quality, and how not all improvement is quality. It's an interesting thing to consider as I think about how to improve my own artistic pursuits.