That artist you admire isn’t magic. They just have a process they repeat until it looks like magic.

What looks like an innate gift from the outside is usually a sequence of steps the person has run so many times it no longer shows. The visible part is the result. The invisible part is the boring repeated structure that produced it, and it stays invisible mainly because nobody photographs it.

Instead of studying their finished work, look for anything about how they actually work: the order, the false starts, the number of attempts. Then build a process of your own that you can repeat on a bad day.