Looking at progress from the past

One of the points on my list was looking back at progress from the past as a gauge for current directions.

Sometimes my art comes and goes in cycles or phases. Currently, I have a rather modeled approach with markers as you can see below.

There have been times in the past when I have taken a much looser approach as in the sketches below from May, 2015. I think that I may like to try to return a bit to the immediacy of that style of sketching. Of course that was in May and we are now in December. My fingers do get numb sketching in the cold outdoors. It is probably that weather has an effect on my style choices too.

Here is another sketch from roughly the same time period which has a looseness that I like that leaves details to the imagination.