>>11921424Practice.
If you want to know how people learn to draw good, it's not by buying books like "how to draw a horse" for the most part.
It's through developing practice at transcribing very accurately the shapes of colors and shades (tints and shades, to use the technical vocabulary) of particular views in front of them. Thinking of them that way rather than as the objects the eye recognises them as.
So, for example, if I wanted to paint/draw the guy in your pic for OP, I'd start chunking the areas of color/shade and begin dropping blotches of color in.
I've drawn some green lines on a screenshot to show you how that works, but now that I'm more warmed up, I'd probably do the dark grey blocks of colour at the edge of the ridge of his skull, then a pink area for where the white light is reflecting off his scalp. Then maybe the edge of his glasses.
Then when you're practiced at breaking down views into areas of colour+shade, you can start observing patterns about how these generally cohere with objects (so, how, for example, light generally bounces off scalps in particular lighting conditions and what this means for how scalps look). Then you can start being able to draw objects as you imagine them, since your imagination correctly matches how things look visually, rather than being a bunch of symbols that look like a child's drawing when you try to put them down.
So instead of "wheel" and remembering like, a circle on a flat plane, you think "wheel from behind at this particular angle due to the angle of the buggy" and you get an image in your head that actually looks like the image RL.
Basically, practice.
I hope that makes things clear, and I welcome the input of artists on this. Perhaps going to an art board would help. Me saying the above is based on a semester of drawing from life. So I'm kind of theorising the stage where you start being able to draw things by imagining them.
In conclusion, fuck the jannies on /his/.
