Andrew Loomis

Andrew Loomis (1892-1959) is revered amongst artists—including comics superstar Alex Ross—for his mastery of drawing. His first book, Fun With a Pencil, published in 1939, is a wonderfully crafted and engaging introduction to drawing, cartooning, and capturing the essence of a subject, all while having fun. With delightful step-by-step instruction from Professor Blook, Loomis's charming alter ego on the page....

The human head and hands are the most difficult elements in figure drawing, but world-class illustrator Andrew Loomis's classic primer offers the solution. Revered among artists, including the great Norman Rockwell and comics superstar Alex Ross, for his mastery of figure drawing and clean, realist style, Loomis's hugely influential art instruction books have never been bettered. Drawing the Head and...

For over 60 years, Successful Drawing has provided a superb resource covering all the techniques needed to master three-dimensional drawing. From the fundamentals of proportion, placement, perspective, planes, and pattern, through a detailed examination of scale and the effects and capture of light, to the mastery of conception, construction, contour, character, and consistency, Successful Drawing is filled with step-by-step instruction,...