>>7949647
The bare minimum of hours you need to draw on a daily basis is about two.

Before you do studies, you need to be familiar with using a pencil to draw basic shapes and forms. Spend a week doing lines, another week doing shapes, and then two weeks doing forms. Avoid chickenscratch and focus on continuous line drawing.

The point of this is to build up a visual memory of shapes/forms and lines so the next steps are easier.

For studies:
>gesture studies (for ensuring your drawings have energy)
>blind/semi-blind contours (to make sure you spend more time observing as you draw)
>use photographs to draw from (I recommend line--of-action as a great resource for begs)
>find photo references or print them out, then break them down into shapes and forms
>observe references, then hide them and draw them from memory, then take them out and draw as you look at them
>do still life drawings of spherical/cuboid household objects as well as models and toys
>flip your reference upside down or mirror it, and then draw it
>do thumbnail sketches of comic covers, movie posters, shots from film and TV, etc
>draw with your non-dominant hand
>do negative space drawings

>>7949663
>>7949647
If this sounds like too much, don't overthink it. The goal for you is to get into the habit of drawing. Consistency is half the battle.

Here's what I recommend after a month of line/shape/form prep:

>you do some simple step by step tutorials from websites aimed at kids or from YouTube videos. This will help you with the basics of construction and perspective.
>do blind contours and gesture studies of photos from line of action (or any timed drawing site for that matter)

Then for studies of whatever subject you're interested in, just follow what I laid out in the above post. For my own regimen, it's something like this:

>draw my subject from memory several times from various angles
>collecting references, then doing some quick blind contours and gesture studies before breaking them down into shapes and forms
>observing the references, then hiding them and drawing from memory (then drawing while looking at them)

If I'm using a live reference, I incorporate the marker drawing on glass method from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and do lots of blind contours.

>>7949697
>>7949663
After you do this for a couple of months, you're going to move on to copying from fanart, pop art, and movie shots rather than just photographs of animals or people or landscapes/buildings. If you want to develop your style, pick a few artists to copy extensively and blend their stuff together.