FOR ALL IT'S WORTH. ANDREW LOOMIS. Adding Perspective to the Solid Mannikin. DRAWING THE LIVE FIGURE: METHODS OF PROCEDURE. Dec 26, 2018 3 dimensional drawing andrew loomis pdf download. Draw seems to have taken hold of many more to art have not usually been so clearly defined thousands today.
Comic book artists, illustrators and anyone interested in a career in art bought his books and kept most of them in print for over fifty years. Literally generations of artists have sought the knowledge he wrote down in these important books and their effect cannot be ignored. For me, when I found out about them in the late seventies these books were the only information on painting and drawing realistically available for serious students.
Out of print at that time, these books were like the Holy Grail and before the internet you had to hunt them down in used books stores to find them. I can still tell you where I was when I found each copy I own. Here was real information, not some gimmicky writing on how to paint trees or flowers. These books taught the fundamentals of picture making and were written by a master in his field. Jim,I agree about Creative Illustration.As for why they don't republish it or any of the other books by him- I've heard they thought the text and images were too dated and this was before digital. It doesn't make sense when you think about it because Carlson and Payne and Speed are all still being published. It must be with copyright issues.
I can't believe that with cheap printing costs and the ability to print on demand Viking couldn’t make money. I know Bonanza printed editions too. You would think Dover or Walter Foster would be interested. Especially Foster books because they already publish the figure and head excerpts as books.Maybe the family is holding it up. I know the copyright in my Figures in Action Walter Foster Book from 1994 says Ethel Loomis with permission from Viking. I have found some of the Loomis books on EBay.
I was lucky and bid on Creative Illustration and Figure Drawing for All It's Worth. I won them both for $50 which is a steel.I was the only person bidding on them.Most of them can go for a lot more, but you never know you could get lucky.
I have paid almost $100 for some of the other books.I have use Figure Drawing for All It's Worth in a drawing class I teach. I give the students handouts of from the first few chapters. It is amazing how the first thing the students say is that figures are dated. The other critique is the lack of people from different ethnic backgrounds. I have a lot of Latino, Asian and African American students and in some ways they are right. However I explain that these books were drawn in the 40's and that the information is what counts.I also use Bridgman. Personally I think between Loomis and Bridgman a student could develop some serious drawing, design and painting chops.
If you can master Loomis's head studies you can draw any kind person.Last year Creative Illustration was going to come back into print and then something happened the book never appeared. You could pre-order it on Amazon for a short while. Then it disappeared.