Drawing the Head and Hands

He liked it very much.

Awesome book but a sign of the times its full of white Americans and doesn't have any diversity in it. It's a weird book, it's kind of hard to understand in some parts, it doesn't go into enough practical detail but it's nice to have.

The way Andrew Loomis writes is very inspiring and all of the pages have useful information relevant to the topic. The tutorials and step by steps are all concise and clear, starting with the real basics and getting into more detail as you get further in which is what I was looking for. I would HIGHLY recommend for anyone starting out with learning the anatomy of a head and I also think this would be a good book for anyone wanting to get better at anatomy, not just beginners. As well at this all of the illustrations in the book are just stunning.No faults at all.

Informative for the novice and amateur. Well produced and informative both with its sketches and written content.Not definitive, but what book is. best to practice like crazy and use a book like this now and again to get another perspective on things. Looks good on the shelf.

The media could not be loaded. This book has been out of print for decades, but has always been sought-after by artists and student.This has pushed prices into the stratosphere but that's all over now that it is back in print. It is the grand-daddy of all portrait art instruction books, and it remains the best.If you are a beginner in portraiture then this is almost certainly the best book on the planet to get you started. It takes you from the very basics of form and shape, continues to explain perspective, light and shade, facial expressions, the differing characteristics of different ages of face, and so on. It is divided roughly into two parts: male and female. Therein it also covers baby, child and elderly faces. Toward the back of the book is a chapter about drawing hands. This is the only weak part of the book, though hands are generally not a major component in a portrait. The examples have a rather 1940s look about them, but their quality is never in doubt. Loomis was a master of portrait and illustration, and this comes across clearly in each of the hundreds of examples he provides.I also strongly recommend the accompanying book by Loomis: "Figure Drawing For All It's Worth", which has also recently made it back into print. Get yourself copies while they are still in print. If history repeats itself and they fall out of print, they will only rise in value.

I’m sure if you’re looking at this it’s because this book has already been recommended and you want to see if it’s really that good.Well I wasn’t disappointed and it is helpful indeed although having watched a couple of videos on the looms method before helped because I don’t pick up new skills easily and I would have struggled from the book alone. One thing I will say though is drawing male heads is shown in great detail with all angles ages and different features but when you get to the section on females there’s like 2 examples the author wasn’t spending any time on this and while the angle translates easily could have done with a page of different features like was done with the men just to give a starting point.I’m not so good at just seeing the image in my head.

Until opening this book I was unaware that there was so much skill required for the correct drawing of the hands and the head. That the representation of these appendages is, apparently, an almost universal problem and encountered by even great artists had occured to me when I undertook a history of art course. Even the great Leonardo da Vinci himself seems to have erred in his 'Annunciation' as the Virgin's hand appears very strange, however, although the painting is attributed to Leonardo, it is entirely possible that the figures may have been executed by his then master Andrea del Verrochio, if they can err what hope for the rest of us? Another strange hand appears in 'The Penitent Magdalen' by Georges de La Tour, here the hands take bizarre almost parabolic shapes, there again this may be accentuated by the smallness of the image on screen or in books, the original may look entirely correct at its normal size of approximately 50 x 40 inches. However, I digress, with these examples in mind correct interpretation of them in an illustration is obviously crucial if we are to retain some semblance of verissimilitude.Andrew Loomis's book is filled with fine examples of heads and hands, I had no idea of the wide range and could easily have been overawed but his stage-by-stage progression is a great help to the student of art.Some may balk at the apparent old fashioned styles of the heads, I feel, however, that these only lend a sense of gravitas to this and its accompanying volumes unlike some light and fluffy modern guides.I am confident that by following the guidance in these books my drawing skills will improve dramatically. Of course should I prove less than adept at following the guidance I can always make a good living selling pickled examples of the butcher's trade, unmade beds or piles of tyres and bricks in various stages of decrepitude.Another great book from Titan.

Fast delivery. Great book to learn from, so much detail.