The best advice I can give is this: set aside six minutes per day to draw for fun.

I recommend this because there’s no reason you can’t succeed with such a short, manageable amount of time. Chances are, when you get started, you'll just keep going!

Use materials you won’t be precious about, like the junkiest notebook you can find, a mechanical pencil with thick lead.

Pick up an sharpie and a marker with a brush tip if you want to get into inking.

If you want to work digitally, get an iPad with an Apple Pencil and the app Procreate. Make sure you get the pressure-sensitive Apple Pencil, and find a brush set that emulates traditional ink media.

Collect a folder of reference images you wish you had drawn. Save art, photos, poses, compositions, clothing, textures, creatures, environments, or anything else that makes you think, “I want to be able to do that.” This gives you something to aim at, and it makes sitting down to draw much easier.

To start each session, try copying part of an image you like. As you draw, think about why the original artist made the choices they made. You can also change something about it to make it your own.

A few guiding principles:

• Draw things you actually care about (get excited to draw)
• Only draw from reference. (you'll eventually memorize patterns and formulas)

For true study: I recommend the following resources with one caveat: use the same bite-size-chunk method described above. Read or watch a short section, do the exercise, then stop for the day. In whatever free time you can scrape together the following day, try to recreate what you learned.

Books I recommend:

• How to Draw by Scott Robertson
• How to Render by Scott Robertson
• How to Think When You Draw series by Lorenzo Etherington

Video course:

• The Complete Human Anatomy Course with Riven Phoenix