Anon05/04/26, 09:17No.7931767
>If you want to draw anime or furry art
I would have agreed with you if you hadn't used these as your examples.
Anime and even Furry art have their basis in reality - they have proper anatomical features that require some study of more realistic human anatomy. They'll have realistic arms and hands, showing the with tendons, muscle, and bone all showing via a polished rendering style.
If you were talking about flat UPA style cartoon characters, I'd have agreed with you.But even then, what often happens is that artists wish to do more than what their current art style enables, and suddenly they find that they're essentially a new artist again, because they haven't drawn or studied drawing in that manner at all.
Even if we stick to unrealistic cartoony style, there's good in knowing anatomy when you want to diversify your character designs; like a really smart character with a big cranium - but where's does the cranium begin and end on the head? Etc.
Even cartoony styles that are extremely unrealistic, with floating eye balls and head sized noses and such, it helps to have a little basis, a bare minimum, of anatomical understanding.