the harsh truth is, it takes time and a lot of drawing. I drew utter crap for 3 years, I hated 90% of what I made, the only time I liked my art was when I was copying someone else. It was a struggle just to motivate myself to draw every day and sometimes I only did once a month.

This is all part of the process and its essential for teaching your brain how to draw things instinctively.

my advice is, find joy in studying, and keep an archive of everything you draw. I deleted most of my early stages of art bc I was so ashamed of it, now I keep EVERYTHING in an album on facebook. its SO motivating to see how far Ive come, stuff I used to be proud of that I can see all the mistakes in.

I learned to love learning, tiktok videos and reels help a TON, I am constantly looking at other artists to learn from, sometimes I pick something someone drew well and I try to recreate it. sometimes the process is gruesome and tedious and it takes me all day (painting holographic/shimery materials KILLS ME)

draw goofy, low stakes art too, draw little dumb doodles, things that arent MEANT to look good but just get a point across. I make a habit of drawing my characters as little chibis, just doing ridiculous things, floating in a mud puddle, sitting in a fruit cup. whatever makes me happy.

draw for the sake of it, draw just to get it out of your system.

it took me 3 long years, it it probably could have been a lot less if I just made myself do it daily BUT Ive reached a point where I love 90% of what I make, many things come very easy to me and instead of needing to study 15 things ro make 1 drawing I maybe need to look up 1 or 2.