So what you are saying is that you get better just by grinding?

Not just drawing, drawing with purpose. You're not going to get better unless you're thinking about what you're doing.

>>2736193
well meme'd, my lad

>>2736164
technical skills will be gained by the grind.
yes you learn to draw heads and poses and copy photos but the real skills? the robots, pirates, snuff, homes and shit? that's not in the books.

draw picture
analyze strengths and weaknesses
study weaknesses
repeat

if you draw then your drawing technique as in your strokes, texturing, shading etc will improve. If you want to improve in drawing from life, perspective, compositions and all that. and of course coming up with ideas requires thinking and knowledge of art.

That's funny, I'm reading Kakukaku Shikajika and it's about a manga author who drew like a madwoman all day fucking casts and shit, but her drawings from imaginations were totally garbage.

Art is a meme.

>>2736249
I bingeread it because of you. Nice.

>>2736164
Half your work from reference, half from imagination, working towards established, measurable goals.

Always push yourself and purposefully apply every aspect that you've picked up. Read through the tomes of the masters, old and new, incorporate that too.

Spend a significant amount of time doing that for wicked gains.

You know, this is not the most thought intensive craft. Most professionals are complete morons and everyone has to throw on music while they work because it gets obnoxiously repetitive and mind-numbing, even though you enjoy it.

And still you have people thinking there's like a magic fucking serum or something.

Well can't complain too much. I've worked in carpentry and it turns out there's people who can't understand basic fucking instructions or retain any information whatsoever.