Fun With A Pencil: How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw

Ein wunderbares Buch, das den Nutzer langsam und unterhaltsam an die Loomis-Methode für Karikaturen und Portraits heranführt. Die Moralapostel, die hier von Rassismus reden, verstehen offensichtlich die Absicht von Karikaturen nicht. Es werden Weiße, Schwarze, Gelbe und "Rothäute" auf die Schippe genommen. Wer da Rassismus gegenüber Schwarzen sieht, sollte einmal seine Haltung überdenken. Und natürlich kommen diese Vorwürfe - obwohl in Englisch - aus Deutschland, da leben heutzutage die besseren Menschen. "Die schärfsten Kritiker der Elche waren früher selber welche." (F.W. Bernstein) Man sollte unbedingt die gebundene Version kaufen! A wonderful book that slowly and entertainingly introduces the user to the Loomis method for caricatures and portraits. The moralists who speak of racism here obviously do not understand the purpose of caricatures. Whites, blacks, yellows and "redskins" are taken for a ride. Anyone who sees racism against blacks should rethink their attitude. And of course these allegations - although in English - come from Germany, where the better people live nowadays. "The harshest critics of the moose used to be moose themselves." (F.W. Bernstein) You should definitely buy the bound version!

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Really good for beginner help you build your drawing specially facial feature, head angles over all you get what you pay.

This book was about faces, figures and hands. It is meant for the more advanced person. Certainly not a book for the beginner as the title may suggest.

Leafing through this book can be deceptive because it looks very simple! Loomis starts you off with all kinds of circles almost none of which are anywhere near perfect, and he shows you how to make a head and face which actually looks like a head and face. This in itself teaches a lot. He progresses through still simple but increasingly more perceptive exercises. He ends up with something like the classic Loomis head, and then onto figure drawing that's somewhere between stick figures and good gesture drawing. The book shows its age and has a lot of distracting typos and the examples are largely adult male. I think it's a great book for showing an absolute beginner he/she can do with consistent practice but not taking it too seriously, but just playing around with a pencil. Definitely recommend this book