I'd be careful of going too heavily into post-work because it sounds like you might be setting another trap for yourself.  Consider, let's say you start simply again but then you decide to do just a little more and a little more and eventually you are doing so much post-work you are back where you are now.

Now, if you want to post-work feel free.  But to me anyways, you post sounds like what you really want to do is to stop fiddling around with the extra stuff to make it look nicer.  If I may, let me suggest a rule I learned from reading a book by the author of Dilbert.  It's called the 80% rule.  Basically he thinks that in order to get his art the final 20% of the way of what he's normally capable of, he'd have to spend double the time working on it.  Maybe you need to giver yourself a similar rule.  Limit yourself to a point where it takes you a lot more time to only get a few changes in that it's time to stop fiddling with that image, get it rendered, and move on to the next one.

This happens in art a lot.  People spend so much time trying to get this one thing perfect that they never finish or spend so much time on it that it hurts them more in the long run than if they left it in a non-perfected.  To me that is really what it sounds like is happening to you and why I offered the warning I did.  Basically the first rule of someone who is going to take creating art seriously is learning when something is finished enough and to stop working on it when it hits that point.

WARK!

Thus Spoketh Winterclaw: a blog about a Winterclaw who speaks from time to time.

 

(using Poser Pro 2014 SR3, on 64 bit Win 7, poser units are inches.)