Keeping your hand and eye hot between paintings is important. When your enthusiasm wanes temporarily, try to find ways to keep your skill set practiced. For me, that means getting my sketchbook out.
One of the best books to help me with drawing skills is Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Now I look for negative spaces first. Then I relate the next line to a line or angle in that space. Then another line relating to the first line, and so forth.
The claim "I don't want to be bothered with drawing; I just want to paint" rings of laziness and impatience to me. Practicing the fundamentals should be part of a discipline that leads to better painting.
Happy drawing, and Happy New Year!
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