>>7142717
>I appreciate the sentiment but i actually do need to get to a certain level of technical aptitude firs
Well, cat-posting aside, I think the fastest way to improve is to develop your observational eye. Even as a comic book artist myself, who mainly draws from imagination, the time I improved the MOST was when I did a huge, concentrated amount of master copies, learning to copy what I saw very precisely.

It didn't make sense to me, as a beginner, why an artist who mainly wants to draw from imagination, must develop their eye, but it makes sense to me now, now that I've developed the skill. Developing your eye means basically developing a better ability to acquire visual information. In order to draw from imagination well, you need to first, be able to see forms, and second, be able to memorize them. But if you can't even see the forms properly in the first place, you will never be able to memorize them either.

So all of this is to say, I think you should be spending a lot of time doing studies, where each study takes 30+ minutes each. Give yourself the time to truly observe the subject you're drawing, and correct your mistakes. You can draw anything, but figure drawing will help you improve the fastest, because you can easily see your mistakes. A busted human figure looks busted to anybody. And i recommend you approach the figure through both master copies + life drawing. Get a Bridgman book, and do copies out of that for an hour, then go to life drawing class, and draw from life (or photos). I can recommend Loomis' "Figure Drawing for all it's worth" as a good, basic textbook for drawing the figure from life.

Developing your eye is a long journey, but it's the skill that pays off the most. If you can observe, construction and anatomy will come very easy to you.

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