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I think that half-assing stuff gets a bad rap. All you have to do is half-ass something twice and you'll have given it a hundred percent. And most things don't even demand a hundred percent. Some tasks can be completed to a satisfactory level by giving it as little as 1/16th of an ass on at most two or three separate occasions. Little portions of ass, sprinkled sparingly across various tasks, working together throughout the day can often even accomplish things more efficiently than a whole ass giving 100% all at once. This is the essence of dandori
In terms of art you should absolutely half-ass it now and then. Most of the time, actually. I like to make 2 or 3 half-assed or partial-assed drawings in between the drawings I put my whole ass into.
The better you get at half-assing your art, the faster you'll get at whole-assing it. If you spend 90% of your time in the end stages of a drawing, polishing and polishing and polishing every single drawing you make, you will not have very much practice at doing the beginning stages of a drawing. And the better you get at doing the beginning stages of a drawing, the less work you'll have to do during the later stages of the drawing. And the best way to get better at doing the beginning stages of a drawing is to do more drawings. And the best way to do more drawings is to half-ass them
(Disclaimer: no creative advice is universally true or universally applicable, and in fact most of it is fundamentally flawed because it assumes that art is objective and everyone has the same goals. You should not listen to me -- or anyone, really -- unless you think their advice is a good fit for you)
