Book Review: Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

Submitted by  Teoh Yi Chie on  June 8, 2011 - 4:06 am

Book Review: Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

I never thought I would be able to see or own an actual copy of this book, ever.

Thanks to Titan Books, this book is finally getting reprinted. The wait is over.

The production quality of the book is excellent. It's a 208-page hardcover that's slightly larger than A4 size. The drawings are reproduced very clearly. If you've seen the PDF copies that are floating on the internet, this is exactly that except in physical copy, right down to the number of words per line.

I love the text of the book. The tone is very encouraging and the instructions are always clear. The examples are beautifully illustrated. It's easy to follow along and learn.

This is a highly recommended book on figure drawing, a classic that gets mentioned frequently.

-

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth is available on Amazon (US | CA | UK | DE | FR | IT | JP | CN)

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth - 01

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth - 02

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth - 03

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth - 04

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth - 05

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth - 06

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth - 07

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth - 08

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth - 09

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth - 10

Visit Amazon to check out more reviews.

If you buy from the links, I get a little commission that helps me get more books to feature.

Here are direct links to the book:
Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.de | Amazon.fr | Amazon.it | Amazon.es | Amazon.co.jp | Amazon.cn

Tags
instructional art book reviews
figure drawing
titan books
2011 favourite
andrew loomis

Comments

Sukh (not verified) Wed, 08 Jun 2011 - 05:46

This is essential reading/studying for aspiring artists, you'll return to this many times and be rewarded for all your time invested in it. Bring on the other Loomis books!

Dave (not verified) Wed, 08 Jun 2011 - 08:56

Yeah about that. Any word if his other books are being released?

I have all the PDF's in bulky binders and I wish I could have his books instead.

Don't hesitate. THIS BOOK IS AWESOME!

Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 08 Jun 2011 - 11:34

"Drawing the Head and Hands" is already available for pre-order on Amazon.

Ivar_L (not verified) Thu, 09 Jun 2011 - 19:08

I compared it to the 1946 edition I got from Ebay some years ago. New facsimile is very similar, except it's some 1.5 times thicker, just because of the paper used. All the pages are the same, only difference is the other side of the title page. Image quality is also the same, it looks like most of the images in original book are also "bitmaps" and not rastered. Only pages with the difference are the same pages I see here on the preview video window - the pages with small sport pose photograps, Moiré is quite visible there.

Dave (not verified) Thu, 09 Jun 2011 - 21:16

Drawing Head and Hands will be out on early October according to Amazon. This is great news indeed.

ViktorG (not verified) Fri, 17 Jun 2011 - 10:03

I can't wait to get my hands on this book once I start my Illustration degree!

p.s. Thanks Ivar_L for the link! Gottfried Bamms is a true master and now we'll have his wonderful book in English!

Anirudh (not verified) Tue, 22 May 2018 - 04:36

I am currently working my way through "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". Do you recommend Loomis' figure drawing book immediately after Betty Edwards' book?

Mira (not verified) Tue, 05 Jun 2018 - 20:43

Hey Teoh!

If you would recommend top 5 books to get, in order to learn by yourself how to paint and draw realistically, which would they be?

Because I both draw ( graphite & colored pencils) and paint ( watercolour & acrylics) reallisticaly, mostly portraits and figure drawing have I been thinking on buying these 5:
- Colour and Light
- The sciene and practice of drawing
- Anatomy for artist
- 50 small paintings : acrylic
- 50 small paintings : wattercolour

But beacuse I want books as a source of inspiration/ reference but also as a technique book that will teach me a lot ( my weak points are the proportions and the values) so I can be better at drawing, I am not sure if the choice is right. So I decided to try my luck and ask you because of your huge reviews that you’ve done on art books after your opinion.

Thank you!

( I am not a beginner, I would say that I am Intermediate )

Add new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
About text formats

Filtered HTML

  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a href hreflang> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul type> <ol start type> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For Comment Notification, please choose "All comments". "Replies to my comment" does not work.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------