Free Andrew Loomis Art Intstruction Downloads
Save Loomis!
In response to the recent article, 7 Illustration Books You Need to Read, reader Steven Dovas was generous enough to share links to sites that are offering free downloads of Andrew Loomis art instruction books in pdf format. These rare, out-of-print books are free to distribute because of their public domain status.
Andrew Loomis created several amazing books on Illustration, Drawing, and Painting, and this is the kind of resource treasure that you only hear about or discover once in a long while. I know that many of my fellow Illustrators would love to have access to these great books, so I’m offering download links below. For more Illustration and Art Instruction books, visit the EFII Bookstore.
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Please feel free to view or download the following books:
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Figure Drawing For All It’s Worth
I’m really excited to be able to make these available to you, and I hope you find these books useful. Thanks again to Steven Dovas, and thanks to the following sites for providing these downloads and helping to keep the teachings of Andrew Loomis alive:
http://www.placidchaos.com/AM/index.php/2006/02/21/andrew_loomis
http://fineart.sk/
http://alexhays.com/loomis/
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I actually got all but “Eye Of The Painter” from a guy, I went to see for portfolio review for storyboards. These are THE BEST books for not just illustrators but for all artists and even designers (namely, Creative Illustration).
To make it short, I love these books. Good looking out.
OMG! Thanks for this – what a great find!
Great resources as always!
I can see and download 4 books, but “The eye of the painter” and “Creative illustration” it says they are corrupted. Maybe it’s just me…
Hey Laura,
I tested Creative Illustration earlier, and it seemed to work. I’ll look into it though. Anyone else having any trouble?
Yep, having trouble. Just not letting me download. Guess I’ll try later.
Unfortunately, I’m also having problems downloading ‘Creative Illustration’, ‘The Eye of the Artist’,and ‘ Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth’. The other three I was able to download without problems.
Look forward to hearing from you because Loomis is incredible. Thanks for making his work so available. For that alone, your site is fantastic.
Sincerely,
John
P.S. As I read further comments, possible future attempts may yet prove successful. I’ll keep trying.
Hi John,
I just tested it and was able to download it. These downloads have been getting a lot of activity lately, so that might have something to do with it.
You might try again, and perhaps even on a different browser?
Let me know how it works for you.
Thanks!
I was also having problems with the three mentioned, although the way around it is fairly easy, you only need to download them off of the original “Save Loomis!” website.
I keep telling myself I’m gonna sit down with these books and firm up my figures one of these days. Guess that’s going on the list of week after New Year’s resolutions.
Thanks for the links.
I kept getting file corrupted error boxes when I tried downloading these :( will try again later and maybe from a different computer.
Thanks Tye,
I do recommend you try again. Most people seem to be downloading them fine. Best of luck in the future.
Thomas
These books are exactly what I was looking for! I always look for books that explain technic and give tips and tricks. I find them very handy to refine my drawing skills and keep me “on my toes”. Just like the new book by James Gurney. I asked that one for christmas and got it ;)
Thank you Thomas for sharing these wonderful resources!!
You’re very welcome Veronika. I know you’ll get a lot out of these great books.
Just seeing the covers of these took me back (quite a long way) to when I used to check these out of the library and marvel at his style. Quite a flashback moment! I ended up pursuing writing rather than art but still enjoy looking at great illustrations and reading excellent blogs like this one!
I’ve been looking for these books. All the old links I had stopped working.
Thank you ! Thank you! to Mr. Dovas & this blog for making Loomis’s books available for downloading! I had managed to print one off from a different website a few years ago, but before I could do more, they were removed from the internet – apparently due to legal threats. Perhaps they just recently came into the public domain? Anyway, I’m very excited to get my hands on all of them this time! They are treasure troves!
Thank you for this treasure!!!!
Thanks for the great gifts! I love these books! I started my artistic career with drawing guide books many years ago and these are certainly nostalgic.
Thank so much! Love it! My Mom had given me these types of “how to draw” books, by Pitman Press, when I was a kid. They were some of my first art lessons. These and the ones I still have, are invaluable resources. Andrew Loomis, no less – thanks again!
THANKS A LOT !… I had two of these book before on my computer but i lost them . I thought it was going to be nearly impossible to find all of them but now i got them all! Thanks again!
Thank you very much for sharing these hard to find books!
I found an original publication of Fun With a Pencil at a library sale about a year ago. I was pumped to say the least. Still had the book jacket that was pretty well worn but the book is in great condition!
These are really very useful! Thanks!
Thanks so much for these!
Thanks so much for posting these!
thanks so much for this! What a fantastic find!! I will be up all night reading these. Yay!
Thank you so very much!
I love drawing faces, and I especially like these for their vintage style.
This is a treasure : )
Merci !
Ça me rappelle mes débuts en dessin.
On apprenait tout de même pas mal de chose dans ces albums, à défaut d’y apprendre à dessiner ;-)
Sorry my reply wasn’t for Carmen !
Thanks for making these available. They are perfect for reading on my iPad with the free iBooks app.
Thank you for posting!
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Thanks for doing everybody a favor in making Andrew Loomis’ books
available for downloading.
I am an Art College professor and think that “Successful Drawing” and
“Figure Drawing For All Its Worth” are the best books ever in the field of drawing.
The title of that page needs to be fixed, there is a misspelled in the
word “instruction”
Hi,
Just wanted to say, that I’ve downloaded all of them on my goodreader and I am mostly going through the books on my way to work and back. I’ve read Creative Illustration and now I am on Figure drawing for all it’s worth. I absolutely love the Loomis’s approach, way of explaining things. I cannot think of a lecture that’s more inspiring for artist, doodler, hobbyist than his writing. Great respect for Mr A. Loomis and big thanks to you for sharing these. A real find.
Thanks,
Filip
Thank you for pointing these out. I’ve heard about these for forever, and never been able to find them, and now here they are. A friend told me about them years ago and said how hard they were to find. I wish he were still alive to enjoy the knowledge that they were now easy to get.
THANK YOU SO MUTCH….SERIOSLY…
Thanks for posting the books. They are very helpful.
Does anybody know the size of the drawings in the gallery section at the end of the “Successful Drawing” book? Are they the actual size of the originals, or have they been scaled-down to fit onto a 8.5×11 inch page.
How do you know that these books are in the public domain?
The copyright would have been expired. It lasts the lifetime of the author+50 years, which ought to have passed a long time ago.
Thanks for these links, I’ve downloaded Creative Illustration and Eye of the Painter, both great books to have. Can’t understand them not being in print.
It is interesting to compare these with Ruskins “Element of Drawing”, Speeds “The Practice and Science of Drawing” to see different approaches over a period of 100 years.
I was able to download Creative Illustration but this was after forgetting I had the tab open to it because when I clicked on it to download the book it opened up to a blank page, no spinning ball (Mac) there was nothing going for a while too, to suggest the tab was possibly a dead link so I left that tab while I was viewing other tabs, I think I just forgot all about it.
A few minutes later maybe 5 or 10, I came back to that tab forgetting why it was still on your link when there it was… that cover… the woman’s eye, the gold text in that orange background…
Thank you!
My original copy was lost to a house fire too many years ago to dwell on it anymore now… but it was such a loss along with other books amongst so many other things.
Anyway,
I now have a copy once again, this time digitally so I can keep a copy in a safe place while using one to work off of.
Thank you so much! This is going to help a lot!
Excellent books.But is it a illustrators job a well payed?!Or where to find such a job,even the digital illustartor job like I do skilled in photoshop and Illustrator programs?! How to build and offer, where to knock….always the same questions?!
Bless you, dude! I wish I had these before I started art college. Maybe 1st year wouldn’t have been so frustrating.
Thank you very much and thanks to Mr Dovas as well for making these pdfs available for download, what a great resource
Thank you!
I have most of these books but now I can load them onto my iPad! Thanks!
Hey…
Thank you very much for sharing these books here with all of us. These books are really very useful and full of information for all of us..
thank you so much thomas james. my father always want me to be an artist yet it didnt register to me then. now that he is gone i like to learn it and try’n real hard. i believe these books will help me.
thank you!! you are sent from Heaven.. you and Andrew Loomis..
thank you for sharing his wisdom and experience.. you totally rule!!
Peace and Love, :D
Thank you so much for the generous help.
Awesome resource! Thanks for the links. I like customizing shortened links… http://j.mp/AndrewLoomis is permalinked to this page.