Cartoonists and anatomy

I was thinking about making a stamp like this awhile ago, but I kept forgetting about it.

Anyway, this was inspired by someone on dA who claimed that cartoonists don't need to learn realistic anatomy and all of that.

Bull-fucking-shit.

Cartoonists are ARTISTS. They need to learn everything else any other artist does. Not just anatomy. That's how their characters look balanced. No, a lot of cartoon characters do not have realistic proportions, but cartoonists know how to bend, exaggerate and play with proportions to make their characters unique in their own style so that it works for that character's universe. It works for them, because they know how to draw realistically and know their proportions and such.

Learn the rules before you break them~

I've made this mistake. I used to believe that I didn't need to learn real anatomy for humans or animals or anything. But then I fucking grew up and realised how wrong I was. And I started practising. My anatomy is not perfect, but it's much better than what it was and I can draw a decent looking human.

And because of that, I can play with things a little more to make a separate, more exaggerated cartoony style as opposed to my normal, more realistically proportioned style (Still working on that cartoony style, I need to make it look more balanced).

Sorry if none of this makes sense, I don't seem to be good at the ranting or something? I don't know.