>>3244955You can just jump in to the community college classes, though studying some fundamentals beforehand won't hurt it isn't necessary. If I were to suggest anything to start with it would be visual measuring and proportion practice, that'll give you a good head start over everyone else.
They kind of just assume everyone there doesn't know how to draw or is just there to fulfill a degree requirement anyways, it's not like you have to submit a portfolio to sign up for classes.
The one caveat to CC classes is that sometimes the professors on tenure there are really shitty but they can't fire them.
I took a class where I was a noob but I was still better at drawing than the professor, and she was really weird and jealous about it, so she would come up behind me at the last 10 minutes of class, grab a stick of charcoal, and black out the work I'd spent an hour on and tell me to re-do it before class was over or I'd get a 0 on that project (she was mad that I was poor and couldn't afford nice paper, so would constantly make an example of me). She ripped up another student's work in front of the whole class right after that, and told him he was bad at art and needed to stop coming to class.
There are review sites for professors so you know what you're getting into before you sign up for their classes. I think the one I used was ratemyprofessor? Just make sure they're a prof that can actually teach and isn't a dickbag and you'll be fine.
