I've been teaching myself illustration for a kid's app I'm making. It's such a different mental exercise than coding! And yet... I found that I was getting stu

I've been teaching myself illustration for a kid's app I'm making. It's such a different mental exercise than coding! And yet... I found that I was getting stuck on things while drawing. It really wasn't until I started to bring some of my discipline and rigor from engineering to art making, that I was able to break through. Specifically, debugging what wasn't working with my art. Breaking it down, and trying new ideas. So I would say, there's actually a lot of similarities in the practice of learning to make art and programming, even if the actual skills, sensibilities, and motivations involved are completely different. You're probably more equipped to make progress than you think.