I know I need to get the fundamentals, but do I really need a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZOdOGu-Q60

>>2855458
so the gist of it is that I need to focus on animation-oriented life drawing, right? is there a book or class or repository that I can get some understanding of that?

>>2855470
Sorry for being so vague, but while the subject of the video was life drawing exclusively, I think the take-away is that you need to approach formal concepts like anatomy, figure drawing etc. with the understanding about what your medium of expression is and how it might differ from others like painting and illustration. If you want to be a good artist in general yes you're going to have to have a good understanding of anatomy and their proportions, but if you're more concerned with storytelling then you can be content with having shit fundamentals I guess. If that's the case go to >>>/lit/

>>2855475
I've got the framework of a story I wanna tell and a good idea of what the characters will look like. Something between a standard Cal-Arts [spoiler]groan[/spoiler] style and a more natural, human structure is what I hope to achieve, although I'm maybe halfway to that level of drawing. I haven't decided between a comic or an animation, but I'm leaning towards the former since it's my first big project, and I've been sitting on it for about a year now.

>>2855455

You don't need to be a bucketsquatting starving artist slaving away in mindless pursuit of ever stronger fundamentals, but yes, if you're lacking in at least a basic fundamental background then it's going to be embarrassingly apparent to your potential audience sooner or later.

As with anything, insanity lies at the extremes. My "serious" practice is mostly limited to five minute figures and the occasional perspective challenge, but just doing those things alone have improved the quality and appeal of my cartoony/non-representational art by miles.