In the end, I decided to go ahead with my AI-Drawing project. Of course I can't expect to finish the entire project by the end of this semester, but I think completing Phase 1 + Phase 2 this semester should be doable.This week I completed the first step: building a drawing program in p5.js to record my drawing actions. I have to say, building my personal portfolio website earlier gave me a lot of experience and reference material.
The complete code has been uploaded to GitHub.