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# Masterclass in illustration techniques Top-ranked art resource Comprehensive art manual Creative Illustration

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## Summary

> 🎨 Elevate your art game with the ultimate illustrator’s bible!

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## Key Features

- • **Elevate Your Creative Vision:** Gain deep insights into perspective, tone, and imagination to break through creative blocks.
- • **Learn from a Legendary Mentor:** Clear, concise guidance that feels like having a personal art teacher at your fingertips.
- • **Boost Your Artistic Confidence:** Transform frustration into progress with a book that’s been a game-changer for decades.
- • **Unlock Timeless Art Fundamentals:** Master Andrew Loomis' proven techniques that have shaped generations of artists.
- • **Join a Thriving Artistic Community:** Over 1,200 rave reviews prove this is the go-to resource for serious illustrators.

## Overview

Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis is a definitive, highly-rated manual offering expert techniques in drawing, perspective, and tone. Celebrated by over 1,200 artists, it’s a timeless resource that transforms aspiring illustrators into confident creators.

## Description

Discover acclaimed illustrator Andrew Loomis' techniques in this comprehensive manual. Packed with expert insights and visuals, a definitive resource for aspiring artists.

Review: Finally...the true teacher appears !!! - It's been a long frustrating search but finally I have found the teacher I've been looking for in this book. For the past 30 years - I have gone to various art classes, obtained an A-level in Art and then taught myself to use various mediums but I got to a point where my skills didn't improve much and I hit a wall. After much thought I decided to go to art school to do a part time foundation course which was meant to take 2 years to complete. After 1 year I quit and went back to full time work and resolved that traditional art classes don't exist anymore. I have never really come across a teacher that would teach the fundamentals of good art practice and the foundation course made up my mind to stop in my search. Then a couple of weeks ago after reading the reviews for this book and doing illustrations in my spare time - I decided to go for it and get this book. Best decision I ever made. The writing is clear, honest and concise plus his drawings illustrate his point. It delves into perspective, tone, imagination etc. As I read each page I can now see what was holding me back. I wish I'd come across this book all those years ago and perhaps I could have saved some money. I will still carry on as a self taught artist but now I have a teacher guiding me through. Great book!
Review: This. Is. Deep. - The value of this book can only be expressed through its own words. Let one example stand for many: 'Light changes when we are sketching. During one sitting we may have many varying effects. How often the sun starts out bright and the sketch is under way. We try to state the effect. Then the sun goes under and stays under. The only thing to do is to set the sketch aside, for if we continue it will not have the same aspect, nor will it be true to the fundamental approach to values. Start a new one, smaller if the time is short, and wait for another sunny day for the other.' As you can see, within the space of only six sentences this author manages to summarise the whole gamut of our fallen human condition. Moving, at once sagaciously and gracefully, from the daunting curtain-raiser that could come right out of Ecclesiastes ('Light changes fast when we are sketching' - indeed, a crisper account of all life's transience and all the actions of man being inherently 'hevel' has not been offered in all the twenty-two centuries that have whizzed by since the time of that spiritual father of all modern men), through examinations of uncertainty and contingency of all our perception ('During one sitting we may have many varying effects'), the mirages and illusions that we are so prone to following down rabbit holes ('The sun starts out bright and the sketch is under way'), the futile endeavors that we waste the majority of our lives on ('We try to state the effect'), the bleak or even outright mournful outcomes of all our head trips ('Then the sun goes under and stays under'), the bleak surrogates and compromises that we are so often forced to accept ('The only thing to do is to set the sketch aside... Start a new one, smaller if the time is short'), to the vicious circles of illusions and false hopes that we are forever condemned to in our endless self-deceptions and confabulations ('... and wait for another sunny day for the other.'). I would strongly urge the publisher to consider liberating this and other such gems that the book can boast of from the dead weight of the work's original, and by now totally outdated, purpose (to instruct budding illustrators), dropping out all the illustrations (except, perhaps, for the nudes - they may be left as subtle reminders of the barren vanities of the flesh), and printing it in a format more suitable to the work's true nature, that is to say as a treatise of existentialist philosophy and a powerful literary account of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless and absurd world. And, just in case you are still not convinced that everyone interested in the pursuit of wisdom should regard this as urgent reading, I offer you another example: 'So all things have a value between black and white. All things have a value according to light and shadow. All things separate from one another within our field of vision because of values. So we can begin with these value shapes, stated as flatly and simply as possible, and practically devoid of modeling and surface detail.' Where else have you seen theistic cosmogony, anthropology, and moral philosophy expressed with such prudence and economy, and yet such unfathomable depth?

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 102,346 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 75 in Art Encyclopaedias 228 in Graphic Arts in Illustration 777 in Painting (Books) |
| Customer reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,207) |
| Dimensions  | 23.62 x 3.43 x 31.24 cm |
| Edition  | Illustrated |
| ISBN-10  | 1845769287 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1845769284 |
| Item weight  | 1.05 kg |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 300 pages |
| Publication date  | 12 Oct. 2012 |
| Publisher  | Titan Books |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Finally...the true teacher appears !!!
*by A***R on 30 April 2017*

It's been a long frustrating search but finally I have found the teacher I've been looking for in this book. For the past 30 years - I have gone to various art classes, obtained an A-level in Art and then taught myself to use various mediums but I got to a point where my skills didn't improve much and I hit a wall. After much thought I decided to go to art school to do a part time foundation course which was meant to take 2 years to complete. After 1 year I quit and went back to full time work and resolved that traditional art classes don't exist anymore. I have never really come across a teacher that would teach the fundamentals of good art practice and the foundation course made up my mind to stop in my search. Then a couple of weeks ago after reading the reviews for this book and doing illustrations in my spare time - I decided to go for it and get this book. Best decision I ever made. The writing is clear, honest and concise plus his drawings illustrate his point. It delves into perspective, tone, imagination etc. As I read each page I can now see what was holding me back. I wish I'd come across this book all those years ago and perhaps I could have saved some money. I will still carry on as a self taught artist but now I have a teacher guiding me through. Great book!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This. Is. Deep.
*by D***I on 22 June 2013*

The value of this book can only be expressed through its own words. Let one example stand for many: 'Light changes when we are sketching. During one sitting we may have many varying effects. How often the sun starts out bright and the sketch is under way. We try to state the effect. Then the sun goes under and stays under. The only thing to do is to set the sketch aside, for if we continue it will not have the same aspect, nor will it be true to the fundamental approach to values. Start a new one, smaller if the time is short, and wait for another sunny day for the other.' As you can see, within the space of only six sentences this author manages to summarise the whole gamut of our fallen human condition. Moving, at once sagaciously and gracefully, from the daunting curtain-raiser that could come right out of Ecclesiastes ('Light changes fast when we are sketching' - indeed, a crisper account of all life's transience and all the actions of man being inherently 'hevel' has not been offered in all the twenty-two centuries that have whizzed by since the time of that spiritual father of all modern men), through examinations of uncertainty and contingency of all our perception ('During one sitting we may have many varying effects'), the mirages and illusions that we are so prone to following down rabbit holes ('The sun starts out bright and the sketch is under way'), the futile endeavors that we waste the majority of our lives on ('We try to state the effect'), the bleak or even outright mournful outcomes of all our head trips ('Then the sun goes under and stays under'), the bleak surrogates and compromises that we are so often forced to accept ('The only thing to do is to set the sketch aside... Start a new one, smaller if the time is short'), to the vicious circles of illusions and false hopes that we are forever condemned to in our endless self-deceptions and confabulations ('... and wait for another sunny day for the other.'). I would strongly urge the publisher to consider liberating this and other such gems that the book can boast of from the dead weight of the work's original, and by now totally outdated, purpose (to instruct budding illustrators), dropping out all the illustrations (except, perhaps, for the nudes - they may be left as subtle reminders of the barren vanities of the flesh), and printing it in a format more suitable to the work's true nature, that is to say as a treatise of existentialist philosophy and a powerful literary account of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless and absurd world. And, just in case you are still not convinced that everyone interested in the pursuit of wisdom should regard this as urgent reading, I offer you another example: 'So all things have a value between black and white. All things have a value according to light and shadow. All things separate from one another within our field of vision because of values. So we can begin with these value shapes, stated as flatly and simply as possible, and practically devoid of modeling and surface detail.' Where else have you seen theistic cosmogony, anthropology, and moral philosophy expressed with such prudence and economy, and yet such unfathomable depth?

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Creative genius explained.
*by P***R on 21 February 2013*

Very good book on illustration particularly on design and composition.Excellent instructions on the importance of value in painting both in black and white and colour. Colour theory was always a little difficult for me and though the chapter on it seemed a little daunting Loomis explains how to relate colour easily though it is a bit of a heavy read as you'd expect from something so complex. One of the best books ever written about illustration from one of the masters. A must have for any serious artist or anyone serious about improving their work.

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