This is genuine advice, though this tutorial sort of goes off the rails about halfway through. I thought that was funny, so I left all that in, mostly:

I stand by the title of this video, but if you feel at all baited by that name, here's a blog post I wrote a few years ago that actually has links to a bunch of free resources:

https://emrox.newgrounds.com/news/post/1000875

That's six years old now, so some of the links may be dead, some of the people may be cancelled, etc etc. But if you want a free art education that less resembles deep focus and introspection and more resembles downloading a whole bunch of pdfs and videos that you'll probably never read/watch, there you go. I would like to do a whole tutorial series someday that outlines my own "best practices" in a little more detail, but until that day comes, have this strange video.

^ I copy-pasted that last paragraph from the youtube description. Father forgive me.