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

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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. Andrew Loomis's lessons are classic and simple to follow and provide enough structure to even encourage those people who don't think they can draw at all.

Fun with a Pencil is a really awesome introductory drawing book for people who have little to no experience with figure drawing or basic techniques. That being said anything Andrew Loomis does is classic and provides a pretty solid foundation for those who don't know where to start. There are so many lines in these drawings that any beginner would have no idea what they are looking at.The only downside to this book (and most of Loomis's books) is his personal style is extremely specific and a tad outdated and it can make modernizing some of his figure and facial drawings difficult. 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. Andrew Loomis is revered amongst artists including comics superstar Alex Ross for his mastery of drawing. 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.

Released by Titan Books, London, UK it's worth time spent in studying and performing exercises in each chapter. With delightful step-by-step instruction from Professor Blook, Loomis's charming alter ego on the page.Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. I have been working through his exercises in this book and there is so much joy and fun in his work, unlike the tortured self-expression of some modern art instruction books today.

This one is fun, but loaded with practical information on how to upgrade your feeble attempts to draw what want to illustrate your ideas. Saya perhati Andrew Loomis gemar memakai pensel yang mungkin 6B hingga ke 8B berdasarkan kehitaman lakarannya.

Make no mistake, the drawing principles exposed here are extremely hard, and 70% of the illustrators of today do not draw this good. My main criticism is that this book is labelled as a book for beginners, however the content gets increasingly more difficult towards the end of the book when Loomis dives into complicated perspective and shadow construction drawings with little explanation to aid in understanding them. All in all, a great tool for the artist that wants to move from the low intermediate to high intermediate. Very Good Edition Not Specified Twelfth Printing 4to = over 12" No DJ 120pp Tan cloth over hard covers with red lettering and illustration, very tall book.

Bukan setakat melukis karikatur sahaja, malah beliau juga melukis potret yang sangat cantik dan realistik. Because as a youngster you probably scribbled on Mother's woodwork and wallpaper, in your school books, and on the back fence. pp of drawing instruction by Andrew Loomis, illustrator for Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Ladies' Home Journal.

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. from the librarian with glasses on the nose to the African-American man with lips the size of Australia. Anybody could pick up this book and get a great grasp for how to start drawing and where to progress from there. While I wouldn't mind looking at his other books for technical drawings, even I wouldn't recommend this book to a beginner, for the above reason alone.