I started without basic guidelines and then I had a drawing battle with cheeky muimui and she destroyed me and because I am a sore loser I started borrowing how to draw manga books and started to use the basic guideline and shapes. It was very helpful but i don't have the patience for it so I just went with the repetition method of just drawing a pictures over and over. I kinda stool have problems with proportion and jazz sometimes. Anyway better focus lol