Genuinely, the simplest advice I can give as someone who's been doing art for about... 15 years now on a serious basis?

Start drawing the things that you're the most obsessed with. Yesss yes I know learning the basics is important, but you need to form those initial paths in your brain between your head and your hand that will allow you to draw. You don't have those connections in your brain when you first start out, so getting even a shape in your brain to look right on a piece of paper is hard at the very beginning.

So, just start drawing things you really like! and DO NOT get caught up on how bad it looks. Just keep doing it. You have to kill a lot of goblins [bad drawings] before you can ever hope to kill a dragon [make a good drawing].

Be patient. If you just KEEP doing it with little studies now and then, you'll get better.

Use whatever methods you need. Ref, tracing [just never claim the traced work as your own. EVER.], tutorials, whatever program you want [for digital] any medium you want [for traditional]. Don't do things a certain way because people say 'that's how you're supposed to do it'.

Don't focus on 'having a style', it'll come naturally. Just do what makes your brain feel ':D' and your style will form.

Oh, yeah... and a more esoteric piece of advice, apologies if this one makes 0 sense. Over the past 2 years, I've come to realize that a part of art that you CANNOT force, you CANNOT really control, is your brain's ability to /understand/ what you're trying to teach it. For example, I've tried to understand the properties of shadows/light/etc for my entire career. I would just get frustrated and say 'i /think/ I get it?' but I never did. Then recently, I studied it again, and it 'clicked' in ways it hadn't before. Why? No idea. So there's gonna be things that are super hard for you, you just CANNOT grasp it no matter how hard you try. But never give up on it. Sometimes your brain just needs time to change and learn and some day you'll feel that 'aha' moment. Either by someone explaining it in the 'right' way for your brain, or because you learned other aspects of art that suddenly made the concept you were struggling with make sense! Keep studying from a variety of sources and artists.

Be patient. Practice frequently. And DO NOT compare yourself to other people. That's a quick way to wanna give up. I still get caught in that trap 15 years later.