/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

The point of anatomy study isn't to draw "correctly." This is what all the free spirits who proudly disdain any serious study constantly misunderstand. In fact almost the opposite is true - Patrick J Jones once mentioned how understanding anatomy was freeing for him. Knowing the "rules," he could focus all his energies on his creative vision rather than technicalities.
The reason to learn anatomy is so you can draw incorrectly, improbably, or exaggeratedly, but with, ultimately, a feeling of truth to the incorrectness, the improbability, the exaggeration.
It's like learning how to read and write. You don't learn how to read and write so you can write grammatically correct but meaningless sentences. "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
You learn to read and write to better express yourself, to communicate something of value. So okay, grammar nazis exist - do we therefore disdain the value of literacy?