I had one art book when I was younger, called Dynamic Anatomy by Burne Hogarth. Other than that I'm completely self-taught.
Besides art classes during compulsory school years, the closest to any formal art education I've had were some oil painting lessons as a teen, and later a few courses on udemy. But other than that I'm self taught.
I sometimes feel like a well-formed comprehensive book is a formal education in itself. I have one book that I re-read all the time for programming in place of not having a CSET degree.
I'm an aggressive mixture of both. I started drawing when I was old enough to hold a crayon, and took every art class I could get my hands on in school, and a few summer classes here and there through the local parks and recs district. I have had many 'how to draw X' style books throughout the years (and still have many). I majored in fine art in college, and have my degree in it. I worked at an art store for six years, which honestly taught me more about the supplies I was using than college ever did. I've even taught 'how to draw comics' classes to middle schoolers as part of a summer program a few times.
As far as my marker work goes, I'm almost 100% self-taught, meaning I figured out all of my techniques without books, tutorials, videos, or anyone telling me how to use them. I started using alcohol-based markers in high school (mid-to-late 90s), and by the time I even thought to look for tutorials about how to use them, I was already so familiar with them that I could have written most of those tutorials. I even use some techniques I've never seen anyone else talk about/use.
...all that, and I'm still disappointed with my art. I feel like I should be way better than I am.
I’m completely self-taught. I did go to art school at one point but it wasn’t for me.
I learned by looking at other people’s art online, and just constantly drawing until I got to where I’m at today. (Though there is always room for improvement)
I took a lot of art classes in high school to start with. I wanted to enroll into my college's art school, but they wouldn't let me in, so instead I looked up online tutorials, got some how-to books, and read a lot of comics.
I saved a lot of money on art school fees, plus I got pretty good at it.
I only draw occasionally once or twice per year because I have the attention span of a toddler. But each session is kind of intense drawing and if I count the number days I’ve been drawing all my life maybe 3 months max? I have adhd so it’s really hard for me to have a routine. So it’s completely self taught and it shows haha.
Currently enrolled in a bunch of Proko classes and I have a subscription to Croquis Cafe. I'd say mostly self-taught but I enrolled into a bunch of figure-drawing classes before and during Covid.
Haven't reached that stage where I can confidently say that I can start a webcomic though lol.
I always though self taught meant more like you were the one sourcing your learning materials as opposed to a school setting where its all picked out for you and curated.
By the definition in this thread I guess I’m not entirely self taught. I read a lot of books. I also went to an arts high school too but I dropped out over ten years ago and never picked up a formal art education since. I also didn’t learn much that was applicable to what I do now. Or maybe I did but I don’t remember anything of that time in my life! 
I flopped literally every opportunity in my life to be taught art (never had a desire to learn in art school when I was very young, and later was really scared that I am not good enough to try and go to an art university since I did not had a desire to learn art at school before, aaand later was too scared when a cool art teacher in China invited me to study at her school, because I just came to the country and didn't know the language), so yeah, I am an idiot, a self-taught idiot 
I'd say mostly self-taught..? 
So I didn't go to an art school/uni etc. or took any face-to-face class BUT, I DID buy an online class from Udemy (very cheap and useful in my opinion)
Aside from this, I got inspired from other artists and actually started drawing by copying their styles
I'd like to believe I'm an okay artist now but.. well 
Kind of self taught. There has always been an art school for little kids in our town. I never went to it. Why? It's school. Why would I ever want more school? I went once to two different art clubs, but I got fed up when I couldn't draw what I wanted. That is why I went once and never again...Okay, I forgot I was in one of those clubs and just never went again.
I learned a lot from YouTube videos. I've just been watching art videos from like age 10.
well, tbh I drew stickmen drawing like 3 years ago so I'm pretty much selftaught, eventho I do go to art classes but my art classes started way after I found a comfortable style, art classes just help me learn like what to do with my style and how to use it as benefit
I have an art school diploma, but tbh everything I learnt further in digital art isn't connected to it in any way haha
I started training and studying every day 6,5 years ago after not caring for
anatomy for 40 years
I feel like having a rough overview now 
After the first 5 years I showed my figure drawings to a more experienced
artist and he said that I will be fine after another 5 years and I think
that it was a realistic estimation.
I can draw figures now which don´t fall apart and I can copy references
and draw them with more dynamic poses but I´m not happy yet.
