While in moderation, it can actually foster creative drive, given enough time and application, stress can seriously hinder creativity.
The last week or so has been really hard in a number of different ways. I at first thought of censoring/removing the text that accompanies this drawing for excessive moodiness, but it’s not really anything that you haven’t already figured out or inferred:
I wasn’t sure what to do with the lips; I started scaling them like yesterday’s piece, and it looked wrong. Maybe I should have armored them like the plates on the rest of the face, but there wasn’t an immediately obvious solution for that, so I left them alone.