It takes me hours to do most anything, unless it's one of my recent pics of 'laxed anatomy and flat colouring, it takes me a minimum of 3-9 hours to do a picture, sometimes more. Now I know saying it really doesn't make it happen, but the key thing is learning to not worry about how it looks.. just going with the flow and putting something down, so long as you try new things, you'll improve, and if you keep doing it, you'll get faster, but trying too hard on either will burn you out and suck the motivation to bother at all out of it. I know that's easier said than done, and even harder to find a personal way to get around self-critique, but I really think you focus on finding a way to do that and succeed, you'll do more art and be much happier with it regardless the technical level. One thing that might help, don't draw characters, or full scenes, just do little things, a book, a computer tower, tv, branch, small stuff that can be drawn quickly. Draw it over and over again, don't try to make a carbon copy of the real object, just something close in shape.. add a few details after a couple tries, you'll get faster, and it will look more like the real object with more attempts. Just an idea, I haven't actually tried that myself really, but eh.

yeah.. it takes me a good 3-9 to do a decent line art alone, and maybe even longer with color.. @.@. I wish I knew how to overcome not worrying about its looks.. I know i'm already burnt out as a whole.. coupled off with this depression I got really takes a toll on artistic morale.. I can identify my problems, but damn if I can ever overcome 'em.. x.x

I agree with AuroraAliUna there, it takes long to draw something, and honestly, even longer to improve. my method towards drawing is a little different, but I doubt its better:
I dont draw much, but I think a lot about what I draw and what Ive drawn before, analyzing the errors and looking at how to improve them.
this usually makes my pictures take ages, but I guess I put forth a decent quality.
now what really is said to help by many artists is: watch, and draw a lot. top concept artists spend 8 hours a day drawing, which is quite insane, but it shows that one needs to draw much in order to be really good.
anyways.. just draw whatever is in your mind, and dont worry about the quality, just work on. its hard, but it helps

yeah, your production is fairly slow psistorm. but your quality of your work is outstanding..

Maybe I'm demanding instant gradification, but like I said in other posts, artistic morale is a bit low @.@

*nods* I guess drawing is something where you just cant expect instant gratification. my great-granddad did quite some drawings and paintings, my granddad was awesome with anything wood-related and my dad is likewise. guess there was some talent floating around in my familys gene-pool.. that might explain why I seem to develop so quickly. but still, there is a LOT I still have to learn, for one, my anatomy is just horrible. perspective is.. decent, but not really /good/. so yeah.. it can - no WILL take years to become good. but if you let that fact frustrate you, you wont ever be at the point where you create awesome stuff.

so just keep going, aury :3

Look at it this way, sweetie...

It can take me a matter of fifteen minutes to come up with a presentable concept sketch... an hour start to finish to draw and fully color a phooki... three hours start to finish to draw a fully colored and shaded chracter piece entirely digitally... 8 hours start to finish to hand sketch, ink, scan and clean, color and detail a full commission page..

And it took me 25 or so years off and on of doodling, scribbling, working through library art books and purchased tutorials, tearing and ripping up sheets in frustration, smudging, destroying sketches with bad ink smears, destroying good inks with bad marker and coloring smears, embarrassment, ridicule, breakthroughs, and motivation to be able to do it.

It takes a TON of time to be able to train your hand to automatically learn where to draw, and even more tons of erasers to remove the mistakes because you never really get to a point where you're perfect at it.

Some artists can churn out good works on a regular basis. Most of those artists have put in years of practice in order to do it... and all of them have completely and utterly stunk at one time in their lives.

Oh how I missed your advice mocha.. I really appreciate it every time you take the time to write for me..

it can definately get discouraging if you're experienced.. its just really really hard to keep my inclination to draw when the majority out there is already better/more popular than myself. erf.

Seeing the loads of awesome art coming consistently discourages me a bit too. xD You just need to overcome that though, and draw.

how, is the question.. @.@