Fun with a Pencil is a wonderful drawing instructional book for beginners and aspiring comic book artist. And this is a great reference book for your library.
Andrew Loomis (1892-1959) is revered amongst artists - including comics superstar Alex Ross - for his mastery of drawing. His first book, Fun With a Pencil, published in 1939 is a wonderfully crafted and engaging introduction to drawing, cartooning, and capturing the essence of a subject all while having fun. With delightful step-by-step instruction from Professor Blook, Loomis's charming alter ego on the page.
About the Author
Andrew Loomis was born in 1892. After studying art he moved to Chicago, eventually opening his own studio, working in editorial and advertising for most of the top clients at the time including Kellogg's, Coca Cola, Lucky Strike and more.
He also became renowned as an art teacher and his instructional books on realist illustration and art are acclaimed classics in the field. He died in 1959.
This artist had such a sense of humor you are almost forced to smile or even laugh at some of his antics with a pencil. His larger than life innate sense of humor comes through each stroke. His manner of delivery is respectful toward the student.
This book makes me wish he was still alive so I could sit at his feet and learn, my scrawlings and scribblings filling pages until I mastered as he did. His cartoons and caricatures are of course from his mileau and the reader must appreciates steps back into time.
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