>>508073215
>What can I do in the many years in the future of practice to prevent this?
Never settle down with a specific style, no matter how much you like it or enjoy it, but also don't feel bad for not making perfect work. Perfection will never come because as your skill level in art improves so does your perception of what is good and what is bad. I still have art folders of stuff I've been drawing from internet 15 years ago and some stuff that I thought were god tier are mediocre/meh to me today. It's also very necessary for you to be able to see what is good in bad artwork and what is bad in good artwork.
>>508073520
Yes. I have some mech designs I did for my big secret project