Tonight, take one boring homework assignment. Do not finish it faster. Finish it . Add a dragon to the border. Give your commas faces. Turn the letter "O" into a sun.
Magically, after 10 minutes, two things happen:
Don't try to finish a piece in one sitting.
Your art teacher is not the enemy. They are a free consultant. Too many students treat as a transaction (hand in work, get grade). Instead, treat it as a dialogue.
The assignments you dread tonight—the 50 value spheres, the 100 thumbnail sketches, the messy charcoal still life—are not punishments. They are vocabulary drills for the visual language.