really hoping these lead to feeling able to draw this weekend, but for now:
I've tried out using a textured pen brush instead of my usual rough pencil sketch brush, on digital, and noticed that it kinda tricks my brain into considering a cleaned up "sketch" done with that brush to be "finished inkwork" (which it is) and thus I don't feel the need to clean up the lines and fret about everything being perfect. going to be using such a brush for the next few pieces, and see if the effect sticks.
relatedly, I saw a video from Crowne Prince recently on basically the same kind of thing, but instead of a brush, it was just the general sentiment of "I used to focus on perfect line art all the time and aim for everything to flow with no messes left over, until I got handed a ref that had none of that and still looked amazing, and I realized I didn't need to do any of this to myself and it was slowing me down"
so that's two separate sources of "hey stop taking forever on line art, just make it look good enough, it's literally not going to be visible to anyone else" for me to chew on. maybe I should get some sketchwork in between all this move-prep I'm doing.