Hey there! I can share some of my drawing journey (still very much in progress) with you in the hopes it gives you a direction to follow.

First things first, have a goal in mind. Mine is “To illustrate scenes from my D&D games, make stickers and badges”

We can loosely follow these steps:

1. Learn to make marks
2. Learn to see shape
3. Learn to see form
4. ???
5. Profit

If you are completely new to drawing, start with Lesson 1 of DrawABox.com It will teach you how to mark paper in a consistent fashion. (You can absolutely continue with DrawABox if you like.) That’s step 1.

Step 2, you can pick up Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Don’t be thrown by the LeftBrain/RightBrain phrasing, the book goes into it as an abstract concept rather than actually using each hemisphere.)

As you’re working through that, you can use https://reference-test.sketchdaily.net/en for things to draw. Force yourself to draw the more essential aspects by setting a low timelimit, 30 seconds or so. With time you get much faster and neater.

Around this time I found a Life Drawing class and it was very fun. We used pencil, charcoal and Conte on newsprint paper.

Since then I’ve been sketching and drawing when I can (not as much as I should) but seeing steady progress.

Do try to draw something every day, it really helps with retention.

For materials, I love paper and soft graphite pencils or Conte for sketching, you can feel the drawing much better than digital tablets. I use my iPad, Apple Pencil and Procreate when I’m working on stickers or similar.