/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>7134221
Really stupid question incoming.
I only draw once a year on christmas for a card exchange and I'm pretty bad at it. Somehow every year I get a little bit better even without practice but I'm still terrible at it and having to struggle for hours to manage to draw -barely acceptable- hands is getting pretty annoying, so considering I wanna get better for myself too I'm on the fence on one thing. Should I just try to draw whatever and just bang my head against whatever problem appears until I acquire an artistic sense or should I just grind the basics for a time first? I'm kinda lost on where to start as fun with a pencil is pretty vague for a starting point and the beginners guide on the sticky is broken, only other thing I've heard is drawabox. I'm worried If I start working on the fundamentals too much it could "box me in" and not let me develop a style as independent as I otherwise could but that sounds retarded too. I also think I should stick to analog only as digital is way too forgiving and could make me lazy/form bad habits.