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

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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. 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. If there was a reprint of this with annotations and a disclaimer of some sort, then it probably wouldn't have such a low rating from me.

Bukan setakat melukis karikatur sahaja, malah beliau juga melukis potret yang sangat cantik dan realistik. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

Because as a youngster you probably scribbled on Mother's woodwork and wallpaper, in your school books, and on the back fence. Unclipped pictorial jacket has a minor chip on the upper edge of the rear panel, small closed tear on the bottom edge amd upper edge of the front panel, otherwise looks new in mylar sleeve. 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.

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. 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. Here Loomis gets away from his casual way of communicating to the reader and into more technical jargon.

There are so many lines in these drawings that any beginner would have no idea what they are looking at. 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. 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. 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.

here puts down in black and white a method which will teach anyone, no matter who awkward he is with his fingers, to draw.

This book was also my first look at the Loomis method of constructing the head, which I will be learning more about as I read his other books. Light blue cloth with slight color fading at edges of boards and spine, slender white streak to lower rear board. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. This book covers how to draw with volumes , keeping proportion, technical perspective and shadow and light. star for pointless racism (if you wanna draw the receding hairlines of middle aged white men, oh boy, do you have diversity *there* :/.

Written in the 1930s, there is a wholesomeness to this book that reminds artist that creation is fun. 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. 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.very nice and simple visual introduction to anatomy and perspective, upped my doodle game magnitudes. All in all, a great tool for the artist that wants to move from the low intermediate to high intermediate.