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thank you very much for loomis pdf books
it is really hard to find them.
Also i am interested what do you think about barrington barber fundamental of drawing and if you maybe have it.

Thanks alot for putting these up Ryan. I lost my digital copies in a hard drive crash last year... bah.. It's far more easy to carry about my tablet pc with a bunch of digital books rather than a backpack full of physical books. Awesome, thanks again!

Thnx for supplying these great books to the artist community!

Hi!

Thanks so much for making this available. All who download it, like me, will appreciate it very much.

I have put a reference to this site in two of my posts which referred to other sites which had carried these books
here &
here

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!

Thank you so much for sharing these!

Very cool! Thanks for the Loomis pdfs - a most valuable resource for anyone involved with visual arts.

Seamus Berkeley

I salute you for hosting these books. Thank you!

I gave up hope of finding these! Thanks so so much.

Thank you, ever so much, these are a wonderful tool for learning.
Suzi

You've done all artists a great service.
Thanks so much.

Wonderful stuff. Thank you for making these great books available to us all.

Thank you Sooo much for putting these up. I had been searching for them for a long while.

Thanks so much for sharing these. You just made my day!

thanks for sharing these, very kind of you!

came to your site from wetcanvas forum. thanks for posting these pdfs
Sue

Thankyou so much for your kindness in taking the time to share these. It will be a great help for my son who loves to draw as well as myself.

Thanks again!

Wow, this book is for over $200 dollars online, thanks for having this, i would never be able to aford it otherwise.

I have downloaded the books and they look like
they will be very useful.

Thank you,
Chris

Thank you for the books you setup for us to download. I am just starting to draw. I also was impressed with the rest of your site. I like your views on things, and your willingness to help. Good luck with your animation.

This must have been a 'humongeous' job for you!and you did it well.

I am always looking for 'old' books on art and when I do find them, I am in awe at the writing and printing skills of those past years.

Thank you very much for taking the time and using your skills in making these gems available.

Now I have to ensure that I don't lose them from my hard drive!

Thanks again.

I'll be happy to comment and say thanks! These are a great resource. Gotta go and play a bit now, this could take away from my mad printmaking craze recently :)

Thanks a million for uploading these books....they're invaluable for starting artists and everyone who likes to draw....

Many thanks for this opportunity, Mr Scott.

I had acquired 5 out of the 6 already, so I finally have the one I was missing. Merci!

Thanks for putting these up! You've done us all a great favour :D

These books are a great treasure!
A gift of inestimable value for every sincere artist, both professional or neophyte.
Andrew Loomis deserve to be remember like the Leonardo of illustration.

Thank You.

I am returning to drawing/sketching after a long
absence and these books are an invaluable help.

Much appreciated.

D.

These are excellent books. Thank you so much for put in your time, effort and generosity to share these with us.

A HUGE BIG thank you for making these available!!

Just to let you know that I appreciate your posting of the Loomis books. young students in the near future, and these will come in handy.

Thanks alot man. You're doing us all a big solid.

You ROCK! An enormous thank you for making these Loomis books available electronically.

cheers very much for posting these, its especially nice to have them in PDF format, rather than just links to each page. Seeing as the books themselves are so terrifyingly expensive, its great to have this resource

Just a note to say thank you very much for making Loomis' book available. These are very handy reference materials. Hats off to you and others who took the time to scan all these.

Thanks, the books are invaluable

Wow, thank you so much for making these available! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Thank you very much for taking the time and effort to make these books available!!!

Thanks!!!

Thank you. I have had "Figure Drawing for all it's worth" for some time now but not the others. What a find!!!! Thanks!!

Thank you so much, these books are like a revelation to a struggling artist like me.Bless you. Marie

Thanks for the books!

I home-school my son on a very limited budget. Thanks to you and this VERY wonderful site we can now add a serious art class to our curriculum. These gave me the tools to credit my class and to teach my class. I am a beginning artist myself so they have also greatly helped me already. I started prcaticing on one while waiting for the others to download! Hats off to you for a great site!

Great work guys. This is the only place I've been able to find these books to dowload. I really appreciate it.

I don't have a site but you can find my art in the conceptart.org forums. Search for Q-Caddlewick.

Many many thanks to you for providing such a great resource!

Just like to say a big thanks for putting
these up!

Thanks!

A GREAT TREASURE YOU SHARE:)
THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH FOR YOUR BIG HEART
I AM REALLY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION IN MY LEARNING -THANKS TO ALL YOUR GREAT WORK

Thanks for the books!

Thanks so much for hosting these, I have most of the books, but it took forever to amass them, and I'll never part with them. Glad this knowledge from a superb teacher is freely available to all. - mh

thank you for posting these!! I don't have the books and will definitely get use out of them, especially as digital files - can't lose them in piles of clutter :D

amazing. thank you so much.

nice!!!!
i've been looking for loomis book everywhere
thank you very much for sharing.
cheers.

With Andrew Loomis's books costing $150.00, your
labour of altruism is truly remarkable. Even Walter-Foster sells two 32pg versions of Faces, and Figures, selling for $8.95 each. I for one didn't even know about Andrew Loomis until I happened upon your site. You have brought his love, his unique mastery of art to me in a way I would never would have known were it not for your efforts. Thank-you.

These books have helped me immensely, thanks bro!

Many kudos for posting the Loomis books for
download! Even when people don't take the extra
time to convey their thanks, rest easy knowing
that you're making the world a more artistic
place with every download. The knowledge you
share will result in Art, and that's a wonderous
thing. Happy Holidays and Blessed Be.

Hi Ryan, Thanks for taking the trouble of formating all these loomis books. I have a few of the originals but the pdfs are really handy. Hey, I work in animation as well so if I can be of help, please send me an e-mail. I have worked in the business in Toronto for longer then I would like to remember. Most of my work is of the 2d variety.

Thanks again,
Merry X-mas

ED

Thanks Ryan,

I took the time to upload these to Mediafire and distribute it around so people would give your bandwidth a break :-)

http://www.mediafire.com/?9nlzggdm3oy

All the best

Thanks for the Loomis Pdf's. I had some skill with a pencil when I was a kid but never developed it. I think it's now time to give it another try; these books should be a great help. Thanks.

nice!!!!
i've been looking for loomis book for a long time
thank you very much for sharing.
f

Many thanks for sharing these books, I'm hoping they will provide me with the inspiration/practice I so desperately need to improve my drawing.

Thank you very much for putting these up! I think these will go a long way in helping me improve my drawing.

Thanks for putting these books up for all to see and appreciate.Too many of the great illustrators of the the past are forgotten.Check out Robert Fawcetts book "On The Art Of Drawing.That should be up there also.Anyway Thanks.

Thank you for putting these PDF's up. It is a shame these have not been republished as they are (IMHO) essential texts for artists and illustrators alike. I can now stop searching eBay for a used copy ofCreative Illustraion. Thank you...

Thanks a million for these pdfs, I already had Fun with a Pencil and really enjoyed it but I didn't find the others.
If you're wondering about the huge traffic it maybe due to the fact that this link has been posted on 4chan. And there's a huge amount of untalented wannabe artists there, like me.

Thanks for making the Loomis books available for download. They are HARD to find.

Have you considered adding a paypal donation button to help pay for the bandwidth. I'd be willing to donate a couple of bucks for the cause.

Thanks again!
Dave

You can be sure you're doing a great service by hosting Loomis' books. Thanks a lot, especially for the .rar package.

I just hope they also end on some project Guthenbeg site or free of copyright database.

Awesome of you to put up the loomis PDF's... that's some bloody good karma flooding your way. I like your dedication to animation. Few people I think recognize the steepness of that hill, it's insane really. I am rededicating myself back to the basics of animation after somehow having ended up in visual effects many years after film school. I went to film school to become an animator of characters, and now find myself in yet another season of scifi work doing set extensions, blowing things up, etc. but no characters :(
Keep fighting onward, it's worth it. The animation mentor stuff sounds great, I like that people from all over the world can do it. Good for them. Physical film schools are just not what so many people need, or don't need at the time, especially considering the cost.
Thanks for the inspiration...

Michael Lowes
"North" West Coast :) (vancouver, canada)

Consider this a nod. :) That's a hell of a lot of bandwidth to give up with no personal return. And this is a damn nice thing you're doing. So, thank you. Virtual chocolate in place of the real stuff.

What you have done is nothing short of amazing. I have searched everywhere for these books in pdf format because I can not afford to spend the money on the books. It really is too bad they do not reprint them, especially with Alex Ross promoting them. Anyway, thanks a ton!!!

Hello ! Thanks so much for hosting these books ! I have been looking for a way to get started in art, and these books are often cited as the best available. I actually saw a used, run down Loomis book once (Drawing the Head and Hands), but decided to wait - and when I went back to the used bookshop it was gone ! :-( Since then I've been hunting high and low.... Thanks a lot !

P.S. Do you know of any other good online resources for artists ? My focus is on digital art at the moment....

Hi Damien,

I'm a big fan of CGTalk and also ConceptArt.org, but there are tons of sites out there that are incredibly helpful for growing your digital art skills.

Also, Gnomon has some great DVD tutorials with topics ranging everywhere from drawing to 3d. Keep at it!

Thanks so much for the Loomis books. I think it's a shame that they're not in print anymore.

Thanks for posting those, I do hope they'll be half as good as I've heard they are.

Regards!

thank you for putting this up.great books to start with.you're the best.

Thank you so much for these!!

Thanks so much for putting these rare books up! It's very hard to find some good reference books because they're expensive and most reference books nowadays are complete junk - I'm going to be a manga-style illustrator someday, but these books helped me a lot in understanding figure drawing!

This might actually teach me the fun parts of drawing :)

Thank you! These are such a wonderful resource to share with other artists and learners. As an art educator I do appreciate the time and effort gone into saving these documents and preserving them for the future.

Again, thank you! :o)

Thanks a lot! These were great and most helpful.

Ryan,

Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful books. I'm very grateful for your generosity allowing me and others to download all of these books.

Regards,
Jerry

Thank you SO much for providing the pdf's of these books. I've been hunting about for them everywhere.

A thousand thanks. :) If you ever need some cutesy girl art, lemme know, I so owe you one!

Great resource! Other carvers recommended these books.

thanks!
mikeg

Thanks for doing this, it's a great service.

I'd like to add my thanks to all the others.
It's kind of amazing how books are available
and suddenly not. Again, thanks.

Thanks so much for making these available!

I love you for this. Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!! :D:D:D
I've been looking for these books some time
kisses from spain! :*

I must thank you for all your efforts regarding the distribution of these books. In some way, I think Andrew Loomis thanks you too!

Greg

Thanks so much for providing these in pdf files. I'm rediscovering drawing and hope these will prove to be a valuable resource.

Thank you for these digital copies.I am a drawing
class teacher at the fine arts school Antwerp,
Belgium, my pupils will be thrilled, just as I am!
It's a good thing to pass on knoledge. Thanks

thank you!

ta very much

Thank you from all of us who actually appreciate the trouble you've gone to to host these files.

Thanks so much for making these available! You've saved hundreds of eyes from my horrible drawings!

(P.S. It was tough to leave a comment because it kept saying my email address is invalid!)

Thank you so much for posting these! I am eternally grateful!
:hug:

Thanks, this is sweet.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for making these available to the 'starving' artists out here that otherwise wouldn't be able to afford to get these books. Thank goodness for the technology to make this available, and thank goodness for people like you that have the talent to help others. Many blessings Ryan, L

Thanks a lot for uploading these books. I haven't been able to find them in any of libraries or shops I've visited, so I'm glad to finally have gotten my hands on them, and even for free...
Again, thanks!!

Thanks so much for the PDFs, these are great and
it's nice to see them all on one page.

Thanks for continuing to host these PDF files. While I have all these books -- either in original or photocopy -- it took a lot of searching and a good chunk of money to put them on my shelves. It's a crime that they are no longer in print, as I consider them essential books for anyone wanting to learn to draw or paint. I've pointed many of my students to these books, and those who take the time to study them will be better artists for it. Your posting of the books allows me to use them in my class more effectively, as now all my students have access to them without having to spend a fortune on eBay or with used book dealers (as I did!).

Thanks so much! I am an art student and cannot afford to buy an old beat up copy with missing pages on ebay. if you can even find one. Thanks for hosting these PDF files!(I am one of Terry's students that he mentioned in a previous comment)

thanks so much!

Thanks for the pdfs! They are a big help. You can tell Mr. Loomis really loved drawing.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!
andrew loomis books are some of the best for anatomy, and all of the old sites with them up are down and i can't find hard copies anywhere!
thank you sooo much, this is so awesome!! :)

This morning I found my puppy chewing up one of my Loomis books. I am so greatful that you have been kind enough to share your Loomis collection - so is my puppy!!!!

Thank you so much for making this available. I can't draw much more than stick figures, certainly can't justify enormous amounts of money because I don't want to draw seriously - just for myself. And especially because these are out of print and very hard to come by - buying one from ebay would be taking it from a student who needs it and needs to improve for his work. Anyway thank you so much for this hassle free way to get them. I wish they would come back in print but for now this will have to do. Hopefully I will be back in a year able to draw more ;)

Hi Ryan, i've made the change from animation ninja to placidchaos. Thanks again for making these pdf's available. I'm sure each and everyone who downloads and goes through these book will never forget the favour. Thanks again. Ujwala

You are very generous and kindhearted for sharing all these books! Especially since all are out of print, which makes buying an actual copy nearly impossible! Thank you very much, and though not everyone leaves a comment, rest assured every single person appreciates what you've done. :)

thank you for these Andrew Loomis books

Thanks for allowing me to obtain these priceless books. The information within is valuble and helpful to students and artists.

Thanx heaps, I am starting over a career change and these will hopefully get me back into what I love.

These are awesome books. I have dowloaded two of them and found them to be extremely helpful. Thank you.

thank you so much for making these books available, they are so helpful and so hard to get hold of

So thrilled these are up again! I was lucky enough to download all but Eye of the Painter a few years ago, but lost a couple and had to try to track them down page by page. It's wonderful to have them all and in an easy-to-use form. I am so excited to read Eye of the Painter and pass them all on to friends.

Thank you so much - these books are a treasure and you will probably never know how far reaching of an impact your decision to put them will have!

~bb

Thank you for these treasures. To pass these books out here to the rest of us, means that you
must be not only a dedicated artist, but a very good person.
Thank you again.
Costas

Thanks

Thank you very much for posting these books in an easy to download format and for providing an exciting source for rekindling my interest in art.

You are a hero! Thanks a lot man!

Ryan,
You've probably gotten the sense that folks really do appreciate your generous gift. Even then, many, many thanks for keeping this great information alive and in motion.

Thank you for the downloads.

Thank you so much for uploading these books, it's so great that your making these hard to find books available to us folks. Greatly appreciated.

thank you for making these available.

I wish there was some way to bully the Loomis estate to reprint these. Collectors are snapping up all the hardbound copies and the last editions in paperback are falling apart from over use.

I have always used Loomis as instructional text, as they are much better than Byrne Hogarth's works, which while instructional is so artificial.

Scott

Dankeshen! =)

I just wanted to say thanks for making these available. =)

I searched for books on drawing on the net, and came by this site. Thanks for sharing these :D im sure they'll be of great help to what im learning.

Omg! Awesome! I've already seen a few scans of those, but 6 of them...! And in PDF! Thanks for sharing this great stuff! =)

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for doing this. I've looked for one of them as a present, so this helps a lot!

My thanks for redistributing a valuble resource at the expense of your own bandwidth. But maybe you should make a torrent of the files if you want to alleviate the whole bandwidth problem.

thank you very much!

thanks so much for making these available!

I gotta say I was getting the feeling,I was gonna strike out..What a wonderful thing to do.
You are Ryan?
Thank you so much!
Blessings!
Bryan E.Warner
P.S. I have a Copy of Figure Drawing for all it's Worth.My Mom gave it to me when I was 14.Now I'm 47.and it's still a treasure.
may I pass your site on to others? I'm a regular over on Penciljack.com

I tried to open "Drawing the Head & Hands" but it failed to open. I'm so sad - is there any way to get this book as a download. There really are a lot of starving artists out here & we can't afford the purchase books.

Bryan - you're welcome and yes, please pass this resource on.
Betty - I'm sorry, please try downloading it again, I haven't heard of anyone else having problems opening the pdfs.

Thanks for making the Loomis books available. Great stuff. Good luck with your animation studies.

Thanks for making these available, the students I volunteer with ( 5th graders) are finding them very useful.

wow. a definitely useful find! many thanks for sharing the resources. it's a shame they aren't reprinted @ reasonable cost!

Thank you so much! They're great! :D

Thank you for doing this. I own three of the books but availability on Successful Drawing and Head and Hands is VERY limited. I have recently heard that someone will be reprinting all of Loomis' books in an anthology form soon--I can't wait!

Thanks alot!!! I really appreciate finding these books here. They are really useful.

Just Thank you very muchhhhhhhhh

Just Thank you verry much

I would like to take a moment and thank you for
making these books available to everyone. The
world of art instruction needs generous people
like you to off set the terrible teaching methods \
that many of our universities and colleges endorce.
I would also like to recommend that everyone read
Anthony J Ryder's book on figure drawing it
changed my life. Once again, thank you for making
these books available.

Really helpfull as im looking for some stuff in
which i can learn to draw from classic tutorials.
You rock!

thank you, you made another happy man :)

Thank you Sooooo much for having all of these great books together in one place.

lo mejor de lo mejor se puede ver en este lugar...

Thank you so much for these. I wouldn't know otherwise how I could have read them. Good luck to you on your goal. I too want to draw to entertain and make people laugh.

OMG!!! Thank You so much for the Loomis Downloads! =)

Thanks!

Thanks for these awesome books!

Thanks so much for providing a link to all of his books, phenomenal stuff! :)
He surely is one of the best figure drawing teachers!

Thank you so much, These books are very valuable and useful, it's a great help for me. Thank you, again.

Wow. There's nothing to say but thank you for providing something so inacessible, but so important to the art community, students and veterans alike. Thank you!

Dear Administrator.
I am a Japanese Illustrator.
My nickname is mogurin.
I studied illustration by Andrew Loomis's books when I was young,which was tlanslated into Japanese,and was very influenced .
I read "Creative Illustration" and" Drawing the Head& Hands" &
"Figure drawing for all it'worth".
These three books were tlanslated into Japanese by Maar Sha Co., Ltd. in Japan.
But　when I skimed pdf now, some illustration were omitted in Japanese books,that surprised me.
And what's more,I found another Andrew Loomis's book,
"Fun With A Pencil","Successful Drawing","The Eye Of The Painter"!
In Japan ,we can get only" Drawing The Head & Hands" & "igure Drawing For All It's Worth".
Regrettably" Creative Illustration" is out of print in Japan,although it is a great book.
So ,thank you very much.I am grateful for you.
If you permit me to translate into Japanese, I would like to
put into our language little by little in my mixi homepage.

Thanks mate. A great start to a new hobby. Very much appreciated.

Great! These books are so good, and I learned a lot just by looking them through- thank you for posting them here for download!!

Thank you, Thank you very much Loomis

With the help of your books I am doing better in the art field than before...

Thanks again...

Thank you Loomis,
I am very much glad to have your successful art books....

Thanks for these. I bought the Fun and figure drawing books in the 1950's. My sister 's daughter still has them.

Thank you for sharing these!

Cheers dude. I've been looking for these books for a fair while. You are a legend. Now off to drawing....

Hello Ryan

Switzerland calling :) Thanks a million for the books. I was trawling through the bookworld looking for them and accidently found your site.
So here they are, nestling on my hard drive, awaiting my brain to stop wrestling with my hand and just pick up the pencil and DRAW!

Hey, all the best with the super ninja animation dream!

Cheers mate...

Muito bom ... obrigado mesmo.. aq no Brasil é muito difícil de encontrar material e insentivos para aprendermos a desenhar ou estudarmos! eu não sei falar ingles, eespero que vc entenda o que eu estou dizendo... Gostaria muito de achar bons materiais de ilustração de Aquarelas "watercolor" se vc coonhce algum site e poder me mandar ficaria muito mais agradecido!
Abraços! e mais uma vez obrigado!

Oi ... Obrigado pelos .pdf, aq no brasil é muito difícil de encontrar bons materiais para desenhar e estudar desenhos.
Eu não sei falar ingles, e espero que voce entenda o que eu estou dizendo! estou tentando achar bons livros que fale sobre ilustrações feitas em aquarelas "Watecolor", caso voce tenha algum material ou site que possa me mandar ficaria mais feliz ainda!
Obrigdo mesmo!
Abraços!

Thank you so much - as everyone else has said before me - I've been looking for these books everywhere and can only find the thin paperbacks, with only a small selection from the original books.
You are a hero!!

Hi Ryan,
I just wanted to express my thanks to you for putting the Andrew Loomis books up for downloading. They are going to be a great help to further my easel painting. I wanted to know, if you know where I could get ahold of a copy of The Famous Artist School Illustration books from the sixties, or any other time period for that matter? Thanks again for your help. Sincerely, Michael Calles

Hi. This is really interesting post. Thank You! I have just subscribed to Your rss!

Best regards

Ryan, thank you very much for this amazing post. I've been repeatedly told to look up Loomis' books, but have been finding it very hard to find a good quality pdf, that is if I find anything at all.

I'm wondering, did he do a Figures in 3d space book as well?

Thanks, and good luck with the animation ninja training!

Fue realmente una alegria total encontrar estos libros por medio suyo en mi pais no los hubiera encontrado jamas , pero es un empuje grande a todas las personas que aman el arte y sus inicios , le deseo mucho exito en sus planes futuros asi como mucha salud y buena suerte , una vez mas muchas gracias de todo corazon.

Thank you for generously sharing these books with others! I would never be able to afford to buy them.

Thanks bro... whenever you happen to come over to
India .. just ping me on that email... Let me
treat with a beer...

Aloha, and Mahalo Nui Loa

(Hello and Thank You Very Much)

for your generosity in posting these books. They're a tremendous help for this fledgling illustrator.

i went to marvel comics way back in the early eighties,an elderly gentleman name of john tartaglione recommended mr.loomis books to me to help me with perspective.finding them was a pure joy!!!i had never seen the man's work til now,and he is easily the best instructor i've seen to date!!!thank you for the time and patience you took to provide this awesome work!!!

I'm new to the world of drawing and illustration and would love to learn how to draw well. Many of the forums I visited recommended Mr. Loomis' books as great study material, but I couldn't find them until I came across your site. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to post these pdfs here. I am very grateful indeed.

Ryan,
Thanks so much for the Loomis downloads. I have a couple in hard copies, but as you know they're gone perhaps forever except monstrously jacked up prices on what's available, all thanks, as I understand, to the greed of his kids squabbling over his estate. And as far as I'm concerned he's a god and true descendant of Howard Pyle. No one is teaching this anymore. You're performing a good service. Carry on, Art Soldier!
FYI I bought The Animator's Survival kit on Amazon through your site so you might let them know you're an asset. I'll also check out Animation Mentor on your say so.
Madison Mason

LOOMIS looms large in the lexicon of artists, illustrators, comicbook artists in his invaluable ability to decifer the enigma of the human form and its' interaction with space and communicate it in book form for those who have the desire to learn and you my friend have enabled that to continue forward into the new digital order. I'm sure he thanks you for it...all of us certainly do!

Thanks for all thiis wonderful books, It took me back to the days when I was in Art School, Loomis for me is the greatest modern artist, only comparable with Leonardo DaVinci and Michaelangelo Bounaroti. I am grateful you find and put his books available for all those future artist involved in the passion of Illustration.

Your the man bro. Sharing your bandwidth with the rest of the world so everyone can enjoy these gems. Your a real cool guy if your ever in New York look me up.
~Anatole

My god, I'm impressed with your respect towards
Andrew Loomis. I knew nothing about him until I read
a tutorial on figure drawing by Ron Lemen - he
recommended some self initiated research on Loomis.
Magically, this site was the first site i clicked on out of the 148,000 other links I could have
cliked on hahaha :)

Thanks a lot for uploading these, its very sweet
of you! :)

Good luck with your animation studies :]

Jessie

Thank you very much for making these available. I agree that there is no reason why these books should be out of print. They are important works of a master. The Walter Foster company, is, I believe, chopping up some of these works and repackaging them, this is sacrilège. These works stand on their own. I hope somehow they will be reprinted.

Ryan,

Thanks so very much for making these books available. I "discovered" Andrew Loomis when I was a little girl, but was limited to just savoring them in the library and occasionally photocopying the few pages I could afford to then, because they were treated as reference books and couldn't be checked out. In years since, I discovered other people wanted his books as much as I did, and could never find affordable copies!

I wrote Walter Foster publications a letter today, asking them to consider re-releasing Mr. Loomis' work in its entirety, instead of the excerpts they've released under different titles. (I encourage others to do so, via their publishing/sales department). Research is showing that Loomis' family ultimately still controls the rights and wants nothing to do with it, other than leaving it for educational copying. I'm not sure if that's true, since Walter Foster is publishing something from the books. But at least we have these to be able to print out and study.

Thank you for this treasure you've provided for artists and budding artists everywhere, the ease of download and the donation of bandwidth as well. It's awesome that you've done this... a real public service.

May years of happiness and success come to you in your animation ninja quest. Hope to see some of your works in the near future!

Good news to all... LOOMIS BOOKS TO BE RE-RELEASED

On Ken Steacy Publishing's site, I just discovered... he was going to be re-releasing at least 4 of Loomis's books. Ken Steacy Publishing is now partnering up with a larger publisher Titan Books, and they will follow through with this, and other rarities.

The product pages in several stores show Titan as the publisher for the Loomis books, with a release date estimated for January 2009.

Known books to be released:
Creative Illustration
Figure Drawing For All It's Worth
Drawing The Head and Hands
and
3-Dimensional Drawing (which is the revised version of Successful Drawing, which contains clarified points by Loomis)

As you can see from all the comments above, we are very grateful to you for posting these books. Thank you very much. Just over 30 years ago I was working as a poster and lettering artist, hoping to get into animation. My colleague had a couple of Loomis's books and I photocopied many pages and copied huge chunks of them in longhand! I've now had thirty years in the animation industry, so I must have gleaned some knowledge from these books. They should definately be reprinted.

Hi,

Simply, it was unblievable to have it all. I hope
all of us do our best to respect them.

Eis um dos maiores desenhistas, adoro seus trabalhos, fantastico. Ainda bem que existem pessoas com alta sensibilidade neste mundo tão insensivel.

A friend forwarded me to your site. I have been looking for stuff like that. Thanks!

Thanks a Ton for sharing these gems!

Thanks a lot from France for a so helpfull webpage

Thanks a lot from France for a so helpfull webpage.

Thanks for all thiis wonderful books !
Thank you so much for sharing these!
very very nice !
tanks again !

thank you so much. if there is anything we can do to give back just let me know.

take care god bless
leo

thanks very much for these books...

I'm glad these books are still available here. Thanks so much.

XD; Thank you for these, So difficult to find them~

Thank you so much for keeping these up =)

thanks for still having these books =).

luv them.

WOO..This is incredible. Dude...I am indebted..FOREVER !!

This is some favor buddy...THANKS A TON !!

Thank you very much for these! I kept these books on my flash drive...only to have it die on me. You really saved me here!

Thank you for generously sharing these books with others! I would never be able to afford to buy them.
in art college days 10 years back i useto xerox
these copy for practise i m calligrapher but to
revise these excersie loomis sir will help to
develop humainfigur in form of pdf. thx a lot!

My father actually has one of Andrew Loomis' books. He used it during his college days as a fine art student. I keep it all these years because the sketches are really amazing and realistic. I didn't actually know until today that his books are rare. The book that I have is actually not included on the books that we see above and it does not have a title on the cover. The cover is color orange and is hardcover. mice

I actually had a comment earlier about the book of Andrew Loomis that I have. I just realized that the title of the book is Figure Drawing For All Its Worth only that it has a different cover which is color orange and it does not have a title on the cover different from the one above but has the same contents.

terima kasih..
mator nuwon..
jaya selalu anda di udara.

Hi Friend!

It was so good to find those books!
the complete collection!
I got a notice to you guys:
I have in my hands those books in a
perfect condiction of use!
Four of them I´ve I got on my hands.
My grand father let it to me as a inheritance.
One of them is more rare because it is
translated to spanish.
He bought his first book in 1950.
I´m so proud of them and happy because I found
the rest of the colection!!!
Thank you so much for those collection!

hello, gr8 books! you are truly un atrist!
loved the books! especialy (drawing head and hands), thx u!

THANS FOR THIS BOOKS :-)

Thank you sir!

Thank you!

Thank you for the downloads

thank you very much for these books...
thanks a lot...thanks a lot...thanks a lot...thanks a lot...thanks a lot...

Thank you very much! Absolutely invaluable.

thanks for these valubles can get any books for skeching. please i need them desparately.

thank u.

Muito obrigado! É sempre bom ter excelentes artistas como referência.

Thanks so much! this will help! andrew loomis is the man!

Thank you so much for the pdfs!

Thank you very much.

Oh, my deliverer ... thank so much for the pdfS. I really need them.

Great stuff man, thanks a lot.

Thanks for sharing those great books.

u know what ,,,,,this book is my prof. reference book,in finearts

Just a quick Thank You for making these awesome little treasures of artistic knowledge available to whomever may find themselves in need.

kudos to your efforts for all these books especially"drawing the head and hands"

cheers for posting these, theyre great!!

thanks so much is`t very usefull for any body

Thanks a lot!

Thank you so much for hosting these (:

Thank you for making these books available. It's good to know that if people want to learn, there are still free resources out there for the eager.

A million thanks! I AM PRINTING THE 6 BOOKS NOW!

I am grateful that you are sharing this unique and wonderful treasury of books...

Gracias por darnos la oportunidad de tener estos libros de tan extraordinario y maravilloso maestro.
Nuevamente mil gracias
Peter

the books are great, thanks i have been looking for them for almost ten years. don´t give up. your contribution to the art has no worth.

Thanks a lot for the books.