Here's an update:

Everything that I've been drawing lately sucks. To the point of extreme frustration. And I've been trying to remedy this by only working in my art journals (in other words, not doing anything super detailed or time consuming), but even all of my sketches suck and I kind of want to throw my journals out my window and into a snowbank. Where hopefully some wild animal will come along and decide to pee on them. Repeatedly.