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>>43332 If it's for the purposes of learning the fundamentals, figure studies and from-life drawings are genuinely far better teachers than cartoon or anime or any other sort of stylized drawing. That's why they do that. Plus, drawing based on someone else's style (ANYONE else's style) is most likely to teach you bad habits that THAT person has picked up, or to take shortcuts without understanding why those shortcuts are being taken--there are very solid reasons that many cartoonists and anime artists have for drawing things in a certain way even when they're unrealistic, and when someone who understands why they're taking that shortcut does it, it only serves to increase the appeal of the finished product. But when someone who doesn't understand what they're doing apes it, it's obvious. And it's difficult to explain verbally what exactly the issue is, but it's a significant issue.
Now once you've got a solid grasp of the fundamentals, that's when fanart starts becoming useful in figuring out what your own style is. The best case scenario being to ape lots of different styles, including those that are outside your comfort zone.
Thing is, most people don't have as strong a grasp on the fundamentals as they think they do, and even those who do could often stand to go back and do some more life study as a refresher every now and then. There are a lot of professional cartoonists that audit life drawing classes from time to time just for the chance to draw from life because it's so helpful to both learn and reinforce one's understanding of the fundamentals.
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