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Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (How to draw and paint)

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I aquired mine thru an exboyfriends great aunt that was an artist. (7th printing Jan. 1945)

The sections on basic construction all the way thru shading, perspective, muscle structure, are all great! This book helped me out more than any of the figure drawing classe I've had... I highly recommend it, if you can find reprints, I suggest getting one!

This is one of the finest books on drawing I have ever read. It is a shame it is out of print. The section on how to construct a human figure without a model alone is worth the price of the book. Loomis is a past master (but the females do wear heels for some odd reason. It was the fifties, go figure!) Get a copy if at all possible.

If you are a beginner, like myself, who wants to be able to draw humans from scratch without reference (or tracing) this is the book. Its much more then just figure drawing, it deals a great deal with how work should be approached, right attitude, and sets you in a right direction. Section on perspective is simply the best i have seen. As far as i hear every comic book pro recommends it as a must. Its worth every single penny.

This is an old book; the figures often wear outmoded hairstyles, the female nudes often are decked out in t-strap heels (who knows why?). Forget that, you won't care. This is arguably the best all-encompassing handbook on how to draw people ever!! It covers scale of figures, perspective, the figure in almost any position, anatomy, children, separate sections on hands and faces, and even the effects of clothing on the figure. Written with a practical but light hand and occasional humour, there is simply nothing like this book. If you could only have one book on how to draw ANYTHING, never mind the human figure, this would be the book to buy

...and it's an intermediate-level classic! As I understand it, this book went out of print sometime during the 1980's- which was before my time in art school and before the Internet came into popular use. A number of my art instructors had recommended this book, yet at that time I couldn't get my hands on a copy. Now that the Internet is up and running (thanks!), word has spread pretty quickly, and you'd think it wouldn't be hard to keep this thing in print. Many professionals *today* cite this book as being an inspiration in their work. It's 9" x 12" and 204 pages- which is very different looking than his slim & tall Walter Foster collections. Its content is similar to Willy Pogany's The Art of Drawing, and Jack Hamm's excellent Drawing the Head and Figure- very much a classic, mid-20th century style. In any case, this is an *intermediate-level effort* on drawing figures from memory & life, geared towards people aspiring to a career in professional illustration. Included within is his famous *ball/sphere-based* method of head construction, but it's in an abbreviated form here- His Heads collection for Walter Foster really does a *much* better, in-depth job of covering this particular area. Still, Loomis here shows how all figures can be constructed using simplified forms & shapes- He constantly emphasizes how these figures can be placed in perspective, and then rendered to a professional degree. He's very three dimensional in his approach, yet his drawings are mainly realistic looking. This is in great contrast to Burne Hogarth's excellent style, which is also very three dimensional- yet the drawings in Dynamic Figure Drawing are highly stylized in exaggerated 3-D, for exceedingly precise understanding of foreshortening. Loomis' work is *far* more natural & direct; it's especially great for life drawing and commercial illustration- definitely worth considering! P.S. In these pages (p.65)- Loomis himself recommends the excellent books by George Bridgman- certainly a great idea!

I aquired mine thru an exboyfriends great aunt that was an artist. (7th printing Jan. 1945) This is the book that helped me out more than any other book I could have bought... I highly recommend it, if you can find reprints, I suggest getting one!