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>>3583905
>How did you actually learn to draw?

Easy.
>Draw what you love
>Looks like shit
>Try again
>Still looks like shit
It looks like shit because you've seen better. So...
>Look at fav artwork
>Study it, see how they draw the shape of the body, head, eyes, etc
>How can you apply this to your personal work?
Still confused? If so...
>Study the real life version of what you're studying
>Study it's Proportions and try to give it Form

See, easy.
Now draw like shit for at least 10,000 tries. Remember, your brain to your hand is a muscle that needs work when drawing. Even if you draw a FUCK ton of cringe, you're exercising that arm to help make a stronger communication from your brain. It's like when you first study a language, you were telling hand from your brain how to write the letter A, B, C, etc.
With drawing, it's no different but it is more difficult since it's much more complex shapes in this case.

A good way to tell if you're obtaining knowledge from what your studying is: when copying favorite artwork, try drawing what you're copying in a different poses by simply using the references in front of you.

As for the books like Loomis, Vilppu, Hampton, Proko, etc etc etc...
They simply only offer you tools to help you on this drawing adventure. Will Loomis help you? Maybe. Will Vilppu help you? He helped me.

And speaking of Vilppu, it's like he always says, "There are no rules, just tools."

Example of tools: Hampton uses an Egg to remember the proportions of a Rib Cage and most use a Box to understand how and where to draw the pelvis. Do YOU have to do this? No. But these tools helped these artists out, so it might just help you.

Hope that helps!