Fun with a Pencil: How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw

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Aside from that, the content in this book is still 5 stars and the book's main focus is on having fun, which should be the reason you started drawing to begin with. brown cloth, 120 pp, covers a bit worn with some adhesion marks on front cover, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, contents (esp end papers) toned else a nice copy in worn, edge torn and edge chipped dust jacket. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. I could barely draw a stick figure when I downloaded Fun with a Pencil, but Loomis' techniques of starting with a simple circle and building off it really set off something in me and I was able to draw crude -- but fun -- illustrations on the first day. Released by Titan Books, London, UK it's worth time spent in studying and performing exercises in each chapter.

I'm reading here that people don't think this is a good book for beginners, but I started with this book and learned how to draw well from the techniques. star for pointless racism (if you wanna draw the receding hairlines of middle aged white men, oh boy, do you have diversity *there* :/. I personally was way too advanced for this particular book and found it to be a little too silly and immature for the kind of art I create so I had to give it a lower rating.Though a little complex to read, this would still be a good “rare book find” gift for a budding artist. Because as a youngster you probably scribbled on Mother's woodwork and wallpaper, in your school books, and on the back fence. Andrew seems to genuinely want you to become proficient and maybe even even excellent as an artist if you catch the drawing bug. Results of figure drawings require at least some knowledge of anatomy, not possible with information presented in book alone.

Addeddate 2011-12-08 04:44:34 Coverleaf 0 Identifier andrew-loomis-fun-with-a-pencil Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0vq3zj8j Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8. very nice and simple visual introduction to anatomy and perspective, upped my doodle game magnitudes. Light blue cloth with slight color fading at edges of boards and spine, slender white streak to lower rear board. Here Loomis gets away from his casual way of communicating to the reader and into more technical jargon.

Also his technique is extremely realistic so if you are looking to do something more like animation then this might not be the best instructional book for you to start with. The explanations are clear and easy to follow and can greatly improve someone's ability to draw people in a very short period of time.

The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. It's old, and I can think of some professors and professionals who might tsk at some of these formulas, but it still has some really good nuggets of knowledge. All the principles are very HARD things to do, and mastering these concepts will require much* further practice after copying everything from the book. Those are fine to look at, but the physical book is far,far batter for reference and to compare and consider approaches to drawing.There are so many lines in these drawings that any beginner would have no idea what they are looking at. All in all, a great tool for the artist that wants to move from the low intermediate to high intermediate. from the librarian with glasses on the nose to the African-American man with lips the size of Australia.

I'd say back this up with other books on the fundamentals (including perhaps Loomis' other books on figure drawing), since formulaic lessons can become a crutch, but this book is still rooted in a lot of those basics, so you won't be lead astray.Rereleased in 2013 (along with another of Loomis' books, 2012 rerelease, Successful Drawing, 1951) this 1939 classic drawing / design book is a skill-building, principal-conveying fun resource for artists and creative types from all areas who seek to learn and master artistic fundamentals. Saya perhati Andrew Loomis gemar memakai pensel yang mungkin 6B hingga ke 8B berdasarkan kehitaman lakarannya. Written in the 1930s, there is a wholesomeness to this book that reminds artist that creation is fun. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Fun With A Pencil How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw, Vintage copy of this classic work on pencil drawing by the foremost illustrator of his time.