I want to do illustration. I don’t know how to draw and I’m past my mid 20s. What should I do?

I answered this question for a Quora member yesterday. I’m posting it again here, as the response to my answer has been overwhelmingly positive.

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First of all I would chuck aside ANY anxiety about being in your mid 20s. This is irrelevant. Professional colleagues of mine have started in their teens, twenties, thirties, forties; after a whole career; after two careers. This part doesn’t…