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Summary: A very, very good book!!!
Review: "Drawing Heads" by Andrew Loomis is a very thorough and comprehensive book that has amazingly been crammed into under 70 pages. There is no waste whatsoever in any of the pages. The illustrations are beautiful and it contains simplified, easy to understand approaches to drawing the head as well as basic anatomy and facial planes. Also contained are the proportions for small children, babies and teens. It would have to be the best book on drawing the head i have come across and is at a bargain price. It is a "must have" for anyone serious about learning how to draw the head.
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Summary: A very, very good book!!!
Review: "Drawing Heads" by Andrew Loomis is a very thorough and comprehensive book that has amazingly been crammed into under 70 pages. There is no waste whatsoever in any of the pages. The illustrations are beautiful and it contains simplified, easy to understand approaches to drawing the head as well as basic anatomy and facial planes. Also contained are the proportions for small children, babies and teens. It would have to be the best book on drawing the head i have come across and is at a bargain price. It is a "must have" for anyone serious about learning how to draw the head.
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Summary: DRAWING THE HEAD AND HANDS
Review: Drawing the Head and Hands can be for any artist a formitable tasks, but Andrew Loomis has taken away some that difficulty by writing and illustrating this book. Every Art School should be required to have this book on it's reference shelf; for shear ease of language and construction of illustrations no comtemporary book on the subject comes close. When they say they don't write'em like that any more; they mean this book. It is currently out-of-print ( a crime to students of illustration everywhere) and difficult to find, but when you do find it and open it's pages to the inspiring black and white drawings and the encouraging and engaging instructions wrapped in old fashioned wit - you will truly see the majesty of Mr. Loomis' talent. And if you study and apply the technics and advice given within the few short pages of this text, you will only find yourself a better artist and illustrator for having done so.
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Summary: walter foster publishing ruins what they touch
Review: I held Andrew Loomis's books in the highest esteem. Then walter foster came along and decided to cut cost by publishing every third page and discarding everything in between. Think this statement is absurd! Compare Andrew Loomis's books BEFORE and AFTER walter foster got his hands on them.
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Summary: Best book in the world!!
Review: I've owned this book for quite some time now,but the only thing is that it's a translated chinese version of it & the translatiton was done very badly.Still with the well drawn images,I was able to learn everything on drawing of the head & hands.It's a great book & everyone should at least flip over the book to see how faces should be drawn well.Sorry for those who wants this book,I'll never sell it away(May be after I've got the english version of it).
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Summary: bringing the diffucult within reach
Review: The human body is the hardest thing to sketch, and of its parts, the head and hands are most intimidating. Loomis found a way to bring these challenges into the realm of the achievable for amateurs, with a text that, while a bit old fashioned in style, feeds the drawing brain.
As a bonus, Loomis'own pieces, particularly the finished sketches, are deeply satiafying to view. To be sure, the style is genre-past, but the evocation is sweet, recent, and wholly American. One can see in the sketched heads the tender, yearbook faces of our parents now aged or departed.
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