>>1409504I'm okay at drawing. I doodled on my schoolpapers from the third grade on. I remember starting out by drawing robot characters with a triangle torso and triangular limbs and a triangular head with 3 spikes. I then got pic related Star Was book back when Borders Books was closing and the company was liquidating everything. I started drawing Storm Troopers and Clone Troopers, and my favorite characters: The Fetts. I drew just by looking at the book and copying. I would draw Star Wars characters in addition to my own stuff at school. From then on, I my own characters started having limbs and armor, kneepads, capes, helmet features such as radio comms, that somewhat resembled armored Star Wars characters. Kind of like mixing and matching parts.
I learned by copying. And I learned a new saying recently that goes along with this: that good artists borrow and great artists steal. So you should be shameless about stealing. The Japanese ripped off Western sci-fi in their anime and put their own spin on it and created some of the most potent cyberpunk and space opera visual media that exists.
Last time I drew was a few years ago. I don't care about having this skill at all, and I only learned how to do it because, like you, I was an unfocused kid in school. So if you have YouTube on in the background, there shouldn't be anything stopping you from developing your hand and mind for drawing. It just takes time, and you'll train your mind for it. And now I'll tell you the most important thing:
You can actually learn how to perfectly draw any image if you copy it enough times. Through copying, you will memorize every aspect of it, and every line and feature of it will be in your memory forever (like Boba Fett and Stormtroopers still are in mine to this day) and you'll be able to draw it perfectly from memory at any time. And once you have a couple of images stored in your mind for eternity, you'll be able to combine aspects of them and fuse them together.
