is it only important to learn anatomy drawing if you are drawing from life?

No, but more important than anatomy is learning to render the forms in front of you, which makes life drawing both important and a challenge. Especially like now in winter it is recommended you draw trees too. That will also help you draw other things better.

Nope. If you are going to draw figures at all in your life I would suggest to take anatomy. I am actually taking anatomy right now (I'm in art school). Personally, I wasn't excited about it, but It helped me SO much in my life drawing class. You know little landmarks that stick out to tweak your artwork. Life drawing and anatomy BOTH help you draw from memory as well. If you are going to be an illustrator...or at least how it is at my school they want to see you draw from memory.

If you don't want to take anatomy because you don't think you will like it or you don't think it will benefit you just take it anyways. Because it changed my mind, and I actually like it much more than I thought I would.

P.S. My anatomy class is at an art school, so they really focus my class on what you are going to see in your life drawing and other things throughout your art career.

no, even in character drawing, anatomy will help with correct proportions of any character. anatomy is important moreso because to get the anatomy wrong would/could affect the overall design in a negative way, and with no reference to look back and correct the picture on (like in life drawing) the flaw may not be caught by a novice artist.

Not at all. Anatomy is probably the hardest form of drawing. Learning to render it well in your medium will exercise your abilities thoroughly and give you an eye for proportion.

Plus, if you intend on doing something like comic drawing/inking or cartooning, it is best to understand anatomy first, before you distort it. You have to understand the fundamentals before you can stylize, after all.

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If you intend to draw any living thing, in any style, it is important that you understand its basic anatomy and proportion. Otherwise your work will look unconvincing or misshapen, especially human figures. You don't need to know the shape and position of every single bone and muscle, but you do need to have a grasp of form and function. Your figures will improve greatly if you take the time to study from life.

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