Find something you want to draw, then try and draw it. Remember the coordination from eye to hand is something learned, so nothing will look the same at first.
If you post this drawing, and the original belongs to someone else (photo, comic, movie, other artwork), make sure you credit and say it’s a study of the original.
When you post, it can help to take constructive criticism. Learn how to recognize when it’s actually constructive vs someone being rude. Sometimes they will sound like each other, but what you’re looking for is the stuff that will actually help you grow.
Check out artists on YouTube (some I can think of right now SamDoesArt, pikat, Proko, Scott Christian Sava) many will have good tips. Scott, I, especially, appreciate as he will show how he’s bad with some mediums, or that he messes things up and had to fix things, or just plain never finishes a work.
If it’s people or animals, you want to draw, try gesture drawing, where you draw the form of a figure without the details. I’ve always liked Line of Action’s timed tools.
If you want to draw stylized, find what you like about a work, and try it. Still learn realism to understand form and how to stylize it, but have fun, too.
Understand that everyone learns art differently, what works for someone might not for you. Like drawing daily can be great, but just drawing at all, even better. Maybe tossing down some colour then finding shapes helps, maybe following exact tutorials helps wou learn how to get a specific brush stroke you’re looking for.
Finally, it sucks, but it’s literally. Just. Practice. Practice. Practice. Even when you look at something you’ve done, and it stinks, remember it was a learning opportunity, and no one has to see it. If you can figure out what is wrong, go practice drawing a bunch of different versions of those parts, see how they work, the shapes that make them up.
Sorry if this is long, I, personally, don’t give myself enough time to art anymore, and am not an amazing artist, but I love seeing people get started. Hope everything makes sense
Of course! I hope it helps.
Writing it all out is a reminder to myself, as well. I get that feeling about colours and painting, as a mainly pencil and ink artist. I’m not sure it ever really goes away, there’s always some people further along in their art journey. I try to look at it as inspiration, something to work towards. Still somewhat jealous though haha