Get a stylus for your phone - if you don't have a phone that supports pressure, don't worry, just get the best capacitive stylus brands(I use Meko mesh tips). T

Get a stylus for your phone - if you don't have a phone that supports pressure, don't worry, just get the best capacitive stylus brands(I use Meko mesh tips). The learning goal here does not involve quality media. Then use your downtime to trace photos. When you feel more ambitious, hide the original and draw from recollection, or try to modify elements - say, adjust proportions or give figures different clothing or merge multiple photos into one image. Aim to simplify your traces. Try using different brushes and drawing programs. Trace in different ways, e.g. by looking for the lighting values rather than contours, or by trying to reveal underlying forms by seeing "behind" the object with cross-sectional lines. This is a relaxing way to approach drawing. It gives you a pleasing result immediately and lets you study subjects of your choosing. You are starting from a point of maximal accuracy. You don't have to run out and get a "setup", because everyone has their phone with them anyway and there are plenty of good apps. It lets you experiment and build up mileage across a variety of skills. You can adjust the difficulty as you like by trying relatively more or less difficult things. When you feel ready to explore the technical aspects further, try Drawabox. You don't have to do the full course, just trying every exercise in Lesson 1 once is a good study on its own. Drawabox, being so completely focused on technical skills, is known as a morale-crusher and one of its admonishments is to use a "50% rule" where you are spending half of your art time on things other than the exercises so that you don't burn out from hours and hours of drawing abstract shapes. That's why you should figure out the fun parts first.