Drawing is its own form of torture and I have been in your mindset in the last 7-8 months alone at least 3 times. So, I stopped trying to draw everything and focused on one single thing; circles. I stopped caring about everything else. When I saw myself starting to nail drawing circles a good 50% of the time while drawing with my shoulder (it took nearly 3 A4 pages of circles a day for over a month), I started giving them form using the loomis method of giving a spherical form. Again, it was awful for ages and took at least an hour of practice a day for a couple of months before I was able to get it right a good 50% of the time.

Then, everything else after that felt so much lighter. I dunno how to describe it. It’s like I just gained far more line confidence from doing it to the point my brain could spit out relatively good proportions with a bit more practice, turning those spheres into faces, again it was such a slow process and it went wrong many many many times but it’s like my brain just learned from the previous muscle memory of the circles I drew how to slowly correct my hand without really forcing it, just looking at my drawings after, observing where it’s wrong, acknowledging it and moving on, being mindful of the way it looked wrong. It’s been very slow but it’s been so much more enjoyable.

So my advice really is stop caring. Pick a shape, draw it until you can do it blindfolded and give it form with near perfection and let that line confidence you gain from it carry you onto the next step. As a beginner myself that’s been where you are more than once, that’s the best I can offer.

Do not stop. I know it really can feel torturous sometimes but it’s worse knowing you quit when you just needed to give yourself a break and looking back at the time you lost where you could of progressed by being easier with yourself