A review by irate59
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (How to draw and paint) by Andrew Loomis

3.0

I still remember this fondly, it's one of the core basic books on figure drawing. So many who come from the schools of Manga and Comics (OK, graphic arts... *SIGH*) do not get this fundamental training on proper body part ratio, and character posture drawing.

When this book was first published the polaroid camera was robbing young artists of their ability to see what's in front of them, or an understanding of how human bodies work.

If you are lucky enough to find this book, have your artistic children read this thoroughly, and try some of the techniques. Do that before they are corrupted by modern comic books and graphic arts.