I'm 30, and I wasted the last 8 years(8,000 hours) trying to get better at drawing anime. And for what? I don't have a degree, I don't have any actual skills that are productive in society, I end up sacrificing much of my social life so I can get better at drawing weebshit, and in the end, it was a big waste of fucking time. There are a lot of people who talk about how they wished drawing anime sooner but they don't realize how fortunate they are by never partaking in this fucking weebshit.
Whenever I go to family gatherings and they ask me what I've been up too, i'm too ashamed to tell them I draw chinese cartoons while everyone else is a successful business owner, engineer, doctor etc. Drawing anime is by difficult, time consuming, and at the end of the day even if you do manage to get good, you essentially developed a skill that will lead to social stigma. Grown ass man still drawing cartoons. Forget trying to get good, stop wasting your time with this.