I've always wanted to learn how to "make art"

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I've always wanted to learn how to "make art" but ever since I was a child it was pretty clear I sucked at it, even in middle school art class my projects looked like I had gotten a toddler to do it. Lately I've been feeling the desire to take another crack at learning to draw/paint/compose art, but there's one catch...

Recently I learned I have a fairly common(occurs in 1-3% of the gen pop) brain condition known as Aphantasia. Basically it means I don't have any visual imagination in my head and that reality has really started to crush my dreams. Does anyone else here have a similar condition and if so can you give advice and prove it's possible for even a retard like me to learn art.

If there isn't anyone like that I want to ask you regular people of /ic/; how much you rely on mental visualization when drawing? Do you use it extensively to build up a finished version of the drawing in your mind or do you draw more one line at a timeusing pen on paper construction based on subvisual feelings? Do you think I have a chance at doing anything worth while, or should I just give up on my unrealistic dreams now?