Higher /beg/ here who only got out of eternal /prebeg/ starting late into last year despite being at it for many years before that.

Just draw is decent advice, IF the /beg/ is willing to put in mileage, actually think about what he's doing, practice one thing at a time to a point where he's had to overcome a wall and then apply that to personal work.

In short: the /beg/ must have the correct mentality and basic knowledge of how to learn a skill. In that situation, " Just draw" is accurate

Nowadays, people often dont have the correct mentality for learning complex skills, because schools don't actually teach you how to learn stuff on your own and parents either have not time to do so or also havent learned it properly. In that case, you can join a class. The level of your instructor almost doesnt matter, so long as they are out of /beg/. Simply being around them will teach you the correct methods of analysing your own work, how a manageable workflow looks, what your results should look like.

I joined a class in october. We get together 2 times a week for 2-3 hours. On average, I have about 30 minutes to an hour of time daily that I can spend on drawing. Picrel is a quick portrait we did with pencil and chalc and charcoal pencil. A bit over half a year ago, this would have not been possible for me. It is still meager, but it's better than what I would have thought I could achieve a while back.

And again, my instructor doesnt have any notable works that I know of. Just the right kind of mindset and technical knowledge to reach consistent results and iterate upon the previous ones to steadily improve