Duck and Cover

I thought some of you serious artists might like this book to help with figure drawing. It covers a lot of the basics of skeletal structure that help to make a realistic drawing.

Loomis Figure Drawing

hey wow, thx, I will take a deeper look at this someday soon

yah - I do like to consider myself serious at points - so thanks a bunch JJ86

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Wow, that's got a lot of great stuff! Just by skimming over it I learned a bunch of new things.
I think I'll read more, just to improve my drawing abilities-- and my 3d character modelling.

Ok, here is where I got it, there are tons of other ebooks there. Some are interesting, others are not. There also is another art book by the same author called, Fun With a Pencil.

E-Book

Haven't really been settled for 20 years, so haven't, "really", unpacked for the period. The construction trades trend to be a migratory, if not transient,
means to an end.

Somewhere in my inventory, my impedimenta, is a worn "ana-log" version
of this textbook. It was a good guide to structuring the figure and saved time in my disfunctional graphics education.

Loomis' book limited my exposure to the "academic artists" that ran the life drawing and still life pencil classes. At best these classes taught shading and perspective, AND THE NEED to keep drawing to "pump up" your skill level, IF you had the basics of skeletal structure so you could concentrate on "style". At worst these " academic artists" would send a mixed message by gushing ON and ON about Matisse and modern paint flinging experssionists; representational "art" was too-too commercial. This attitude limits ones graphic communication to the fickle elite, and leaves one too weak to compete with those whose studies have embraced the full spectrum of illustration.

Maybe it would be more fair if I fingered the "art historians" as the propagandists for this mythic fashion elite because they tended to "run" the
art departments, controling the budgets, and therefore, the offical stance on worth and value of product.

Loomis was a commercial artist from that old magizine era, not as famous as Norman Rockwell, but his instructional books are more important than any 'zine cover or ad.

Drawing, illustration, modeling; visual representation is a communication skill. It furthers one's style, and impact, 'pan-ache' and 'spl-a-ash', to have a greater visual vocabulary than what is momentarily "hip".

Phone line or cable, this E-Book is worth downloading.

4too

4too wrote:E-Book

Haven't really been settled for 20 years, so haven't, "really", unpacked for the period. The construction trades trend to be a migratory, if not transient,
means to an end.

Somewhere in my inventory, my impedimenta, is a worn "ana-log" version
of this textbook. It was a good guide to structuring the figure and saved time in my disfunctional graphics education.

Loomis' book limited my exposure to the "academic artists" that ran the life drawing and still life pencil classes. At best these classes taught shading and perspective, AND THE NEED to keep drawing to "pump up" your skill level, IF you had the basics of skeletal structure so you could concentrate on "style". At worst these " academic artists" would send a mixed message by gushing ON and ON about Matisse and modern paint flinging experssionists; representational "art" was too-too commercial. This attitude limits ones graphic communication to the fickle elite, and leaves one too weak to compete with those whose studies have embraced the full spectrum of illustration.

Maybe it would be more fair if I fingered the "art historians" as the propagandists for this mythic fashion elite because they tended to "run" the
art departments, controling the budgets, and therefore, the offical stance on worth and value of product.

Loomis was a commercial artist from that old magizine era, not as famous as Norman Rockwell, but his instructional books are more important than any 'zine cover or ad.

Drawing, illustration, modeling; visual representation is a communication skill. It furthers one's style, and impact, 'pan-ache' and 'spl-a-ash', to have a greater visual vocabulary than what is momentarily "hip".

Phone line or cable, this E-Book is worth downloading.

4too

wow.