The fundamentals are always the same. Start with a rough shape that vaguely resembles the thing you’re drawing. Work over it to make it look more like the thing

The fundamentals are always the same. Start with a rough shape that vaguely resembles the thing you’re drawing. Work over it to make it look more like the thing. Look at real examples of the thing if you want to. When you reach the desired level of detail, call it done. The details change over time. New conceptual tools, new mark-making tools. But the process I use as an artist is fundamentally unchanged since the first caveman saw firelight flickering on a bulge in a cave, said “hey, that looks like a bull”, then picked up a bit of charcoal to make some marks that make it look even more like a bull.