you wanna talk about drawing?
looking at digital artists is pretty discouraging because they spend so much time obsessing over tools and they still spend months to years eating shit before they feel confident enough to post their work online, also some never get over the american brainrot that is insisting on learning to draw ugly muscle dudes in a realism style before drawing cute anime girls which is basically beaten into young artists in school from a young age, stop drawing that anime crap and don't use references that's cheating REEEEEEEEE
meanwhile jap artists trace anime and manga to learn the distinctive eastern style of their people with no shame involved and don't get hung up over not being able to draw men if all they wanted to do is draw cute anime girlers