You learn by drawing, no other alteration to it. Andrew Loomis has a ton of free ebooks that have pictures of the human body you can draw, you can use that, or videos of people doing stuff. It all comes down at how long you put into it. If all you're gonna do is bitch that you get it wrong instead of focusing on getting it right, then whats the use of drawing?
When people say they need guides or stuff like that, that's called making excuses. Not a big excuse, but really, you'd get better if you just stop thinking about how to get better and just draw. Again, I offered a forum where everyone pretty much helps, not spoon feed you of course, but they give out inspiration, challenges you can do every week, a tutorials forum not on how to draw, but on other basic stuff that has to be learned otherwisel; color theory, painting, etc.
Point is, don't ask for stuff that is already at your disposal. Don't think, just draw.
And when I was refering to falling back, I wasn't even talking about you, it was about lazy people in general. They make up excuses like; oh I don't have the right pencils, I don't have the right paper. Any piece of scrap paper, even a pen will work. As long as you get something done.
Oh, and people wanting to do comics as a career. American comics are a lot different career wise. So you'll probably end up doing pencils for a different comic for DC or Marvel, rather than making money publishing your own. Most artists give up their own projects due to a time period. I have a friend who recently moved to California and got a job at Warner Brothers studio, but most of his personal projects are so far behind in updates he's pretty much come to a stop. This, is why most artists get a job in something unrelated in art, and freelance on the side. Another friend of mine(note that most of these are from conceptart) works at Blizzard, but he's pretty much deserted everything else. It's a busy career.
Like programming, your social life will pretty much be cut in half.
I'm trying to do this right without having to use any "cheats" here (gridding, copying, etc.), that takes alot of the necessary effort to improve out of it.
Are you serious?