@robgale @Coley @Coreyartus @Teju-Abiola Thanks for the encouraging words, they are much appreciated!

@Braden-Hallett I think your right, looking at yesterday piece now it's as bad as it was when I did it. At the very least I was able to get something done.
Burn out is a possibility, I did find my self rushing a bit with the last 2 in effort to be done with it as soon as possible.

@Jason-Bowen Thanks for the suggestion, I think specifying what I want to get out of these studies will really help me.

I'm doing this 21 day master study challenge and i'd say that the first 3 days were great. But for some reason I'm seeing a major drop off in the quality of the art I'm producing. I'm on day 5 now so that's already 2 bad master copies, I know it's only 2 pieces I'm dissatisfied with but from the quality of the last two its a bit of a bummer to see such a regression in quality.

"Oh how success only strengthens the sting of failure!"

What do you guys think I'm doing wrong? I don't mind harsh criticism and in fact encourage it so feel free to rip the images apart if you have to. Do you guys have anything you could point me to that I might find helpful?
Seriously, what is going on with my art???
The images are presented in chronological order, so really it is thee last 2 images I am worried about.

Maybe it's because I started using a smaller monitor or something?