u/Greentrees2005

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Figure on the left is from January, where I picked back up on art after a years long break (I wasn't very good before, but yeah).

Figure on the right is from today.

I've been trying to get in at least 30 minutes per day, but I work full time so there have been weeks where I just went without drawing.

I mostly am hoping someone can reassure me this is a "normal" rate of progress.

Okay so:

I have a CS degree.

But for the past 2 years, I've worked a job that's involved little actual programming, or tech skills of any kind. I've basically just been managing our in house CRM system and doing a lot of glorified data entry. Sometimes I run one a few scripts I made my first year here to scrape a few websites or organize data, but that's it. I used to work actively with SQL in the first year, but even that was just baby SQL, joins and stuff. I make an okay salary for my state (27 an hour... even though taxes are high shh) but the nature of the job means that I won't be getting promoted, nor can I ever expect to see insane jumps in compensation.

Not sure what to do. I'm pretty scared. My skills have degraded. Been looking into Python because I thought I could swing into data science and I'm NOT giving up but holy fuck lists confused me. Yeah.

My soft skills are okay? I do have a good eye for detail and I like doing research. I'm good at math, too, but I don't want to be an accountant.

Can anyone suggest something?

If it matters, I'm 26 (27 very soon...) and I live in a LCOL state down south.