>>63962468
Pretty much. Like with any other skill, it's important to make peace with the fact that you're not going to do great starting out, and that getting all the rookie mistakes out of your system is a necessary step towards being able to do good stuff.
I'm still only a noob myself, but here's some tips I've picked up:
>You'll improve far faster with the same amount of effort if you focus on quantity rather than quality, so don't try too hard to make your early work perfect (it won't be anyway)
>You'll also improve faster if you focus on one detail/area at a time rather than doing everything at once. Try picking a single piece of anatomy (e.g. the shape of the head, or a nose) from a single angle, and fill a page or two with drawings of that; after each one, think about what looks good/not good about it, and then do the next one attempting to preserving the good bits and improving the not-good bits
>Grinding fundamentals is going to be objectively more efficient at improving your skill than spending the same amount of effort just drawing what you want, but you'll also run out of motivation faster and therefore spend less effort overall; if possible attempt to find a good balance of both.
>When starting on a new sketchbook, intentionally draw the worst scribbles you can on the first page; with that done, you'll no longer be holding back out of fear of sullying your pristine new sketchbook
>Don't throw away your old drawings: whenever you need some motivation, compare your latest stuff to your earlier work and admire how much you've improved
Pic is some book recs I got from /ic/ a while back; at least some of them can be found for free online (such as on archive.org).

For anyone it may interest, here's some art book recommendations I got off /ic/ a while ago.
Another one to consider is Morpho: Simplified Forms: Anatomy for Artists, by Michel Lauricella.