Customer Reviews

Drawing: Figures in Action (HT191)

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1. The tables are great. It's Loomis, after all.
2. The tables are all snitched from "Figure drawing for all it's worth", and stripped of most text. The material constitutes hardly one fifth of the complete "Figure drawing...". This is the reason for low rating: it's strange that the publisher chose to rip pages out of a book instead of reissuing the complete work, which would be much more useful than this.

Being an illustrator, and creative director myself, I have viewed plenty of "how to" books on the art of drawing the human figure. Loomis' piece stands out with a classic illustration style, and philisophical, almost reverent, text. This book solidifies the flow of realistic human movement through basic structure, not clinical analyzation.

The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is because it is so short. Someone really needs to get the full-length versions back in print. :)

...And it's not doing Andrew Loomis *any* justice...
While I respect Walter Foster & their attempts to keep Loomis' name alive... This 32-page collection is just not very good! It's a slim & tall collection consisting of selected pictures from his classic & best-selling Figure Drawing For All It's Worth. If I were to judge his classic based on this 32-page collection, I'd probably decide not to get it. Thankfully, I decided to get his Figure Drawing For All It's Worth anyway, and I'm very happy I did. The pictures in Drawing: Figures In Action (HT191) have very little in the way of "how-to". It's pretty much just a picture book, with little bits & pieces of barely-helpful instruction. Basic proportions are covered, but we can find this info anywhere. These pictures aren't even as well reproduced here as they are in the original classic. And no ball/sphere-based construction for heads here!

Try Loomis' Drawing: The Head (HT197) by the editors of Walter Foster instead. I actually *LOVE* that collection!...

Although the back cover purports that this book will "teach you the basics of drawing the figure in action and beyond!", it does nothing of the kind. There is no instruction. There are no steps. What you get is a collection of very good examples. Thus its essentially useless to the beginner. Its also very slim and awkardly over-sized.