Drawing the Head and Hands Hardcover – October 25, 2011

As an aspiring professional artist, I bought this book in admiration of Loomis' art and method. I was excited when it arrived on time and at first glance, just by the pictures, it broke so much down for me I didn't understand by YouTube tutorials before. Truly a masterpiece, will be using this a bunch! <3

What a nice go-to book for artists. I love the way it's so free spirit with so many tips and various problems being addressed in ways we all have to learn, if we want to master this very difficult art.

The people-drawing go-to.

Wdonderful to start with the human figure,remember that is a book from 1.943 with different techniques than those of today, excellent fot those who wnat to draw anime and manga later, also for ilustrators. What I dichn¨t like is that it is not made in the United States.

Great book to learn the how to draw the head and hands. Easy to understand. Andrew Loomis is a knowledgeable, teacher who lays it all out for you. Lots of examples to practice with! Get it.

After many, many glowing reviews of the Loomis method for the head, I bought the original book. First the negative part. There are no simple geometric shapes, spheres, triangles, cylinders, or planes, on any human body. So why do people keep suggesting them e.g. the Loomis method? They think simple shapes get somewhat close and people then use their own mental model to adjust them up, down, forward, or back. Do they ever actually use the simple geometry? Not at all. Nor do they use anything derived from simple geometry like a truncated ball. Experienced artists just eyeball it and then if desired they can sort of fit the simple geometry to the finished piece after the fact. You can watch artists on YouTube draw a lumpy ball, then ignore it to draw in what they intended anyway. As if the lumpy ball had anything to do with it. If it is not a Loomis video, they will just draw a rough cross and get on with what is in their mind. So what do I like about this book? It discusses historic ideas. My opinion is that you need to consider many ideas such as the Loomis method before settling on your own ideas.It helps to have others do the work to know what comes of things like truncated balls. Saves time. Thus I recommend this book Drawing the Head and Hands to aid your study.

It's a good book, that's about it. The guy knows how to teach, and I still find value in it even if I'm looking to draw more stylized.

It's so hard to find a book that isn't either appealing too much to beginners or assuming you've taken years of classes in order to progress. This book, however, has been everything I've been looking for. Very thorough from the start and although it can be somewhat confusing at times just keep at it and eventually things will start to click. I highly recommend reading all that the author (Andrew Loomis) has to say. He reaches out to the artist to speak some words of wisdom or encouragement that isn't acknowledged in any other book I've found and you can tell he's lived the life of an artist and the struggles that come with it. Overall, my skill in drawing heads has improved and things I use to get frustrated over now seem like a fun map to lay out