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I graduated on traditional Academy of Fine Arts at printmaking department. We had anatomy class for a semester, which no student actually remembers. The professor was a doctor of medicine and we had to learn by heart information which is of no use for an artist.

What is important is live model drawing, when you stare at naked people and faces long enough, it kinda builds into your unconsciousness.
Second important thing is having sense on how objects appear in space. It may sound as a pretty basic advice, but learning how to draw is more of a building specific logic in your mind than it is about "how to draw an eye step by step in this and this perspective".
Anyways, you don't really draw objects, you draw impression of them since drawing isn't really 3D - so the longer you stare and absorb, the impression in your head will be more "realistic" for you to draw.
Third most important thing regarding anatomy is ability to recognize your own mistakes when doing a live model drawing or still life. I know people who have been drawing and painting every day as long as I did and they still suck, since they never took time process mentally how things actually look in space.
It is not a mechanical process (that's why I am not a fan of learning the craft through books, many of them are based on logical principles and overcomplicate it) as it is mental process and people who are pretty good at it are usually good at mentally visualising and remembering using the drawing logic.

tl;dr - Just do line work live models, still life and autoportraits (don't use photographs) until you get them right.

Image related is my drawing from imagination after drawing live models for four years.

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