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.
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!