Making an Ambient song

I don’t consider myself an ambient music expert, but I absolutely love me some ambient music from time to time and do own a couple, albeit mainstream, records (Aphex Twin & Brian Eno, both of which I got into because I enjoyed The 1975’s ambient tracks and wanted to know more about their influences for those songs i absolutely love). Producing ambient music is always fun to me but I feel like a fraud as I never really go in with a plan or know-how, i kinda just wing it and play with stuff and have fun w it. What would you recommend I learn or study in order to actually have some sort of solid base to start producing ambient music in a more intentional way? Does every ambient producer just “wing it” like me or is there a science to it that I haven’t figured out yet?