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>>3298681
Bump

>>3298681
>Should I draw every single thing in this book from beginning to end?

Yes.

the words are more valuable than the drawings
if you just copy the drawings without understanding why anything in that book is how it is, then you've missed the point

>>3298681
Why do you make a thread about this? Just do it. Like there is no reason to not do it big enought to overcome the positive outcome.

>>3298681
not really. just make sure you fully understand every concept he's explaining, and put it into practice with your own drawings, exploring and experimenting with the info you just read. the perspective page for example, try to do your own drawings from whatever view point you want to practice and applying his teachings etc

>>3298681
Personally I find Loomis faaar too talky. He writes paragraphs when it's not really necessary. I personally much prefer Hamm's book for general figure drawing.

Loomis' head method is the best, but I would recommend just watching Proko's simplified take on it rather than reading his Head and Hands book.

Loomis' best book imho is Successful Drawing. It covers big general topics and It suits his verbosity more. I am not big on FDFAIW. There is better out there.

I wouldn't take the route of copying everything in there. My best advice for figure drawing is to learn and practice gesture, learn major masses and box style torso. Then fill in limbs and details from a gesture drawing with major masses.

>>3298804
>Hamm
>muh egg-shaped face
>"3/4? what's that?"

It's short as balls so it's a pretty decent reference book though.

"If you study my drawings in the light of a model posing for you, rather than thinking of them as something to be duplicated line for line and tone for tone, I think you will in the end derive greater benefit.

With every page I suggest you place your pad at the side of the book. Try to get the meaning behind the drawing much more than the drawing itself. Keep your pencil as busy as possible. try figures varying as much as possible from those in my pages.. Set up figures roughly, from the imagination, make them do all sorts of actions.

... It might be a good plan to read the entire book at the start so you will better understand the general plan of procedure."

Figure Drawing For All It's Worth, Page 18

I highly suggest just reading the book first, since if you had you would come across this instruction in the first chapter and who knows what else you could learn from the incredible innovation of reading a book as intended.

For actual drawing, you should copy (never trace) anything that comes across as reference material and to be memorized like the proportions of the figure and perspective work. Everything else you should try and apply the technique he is showing you to a figure of your own via photograph or live model, doing it many times to many different poses.

>>3298681
>Should I draw every single thing in this book from beginning to end?

No.

>>3299203
This is misleading. He's saying study and also apply your study to figures from imagination. Loomis advises this as well in his opening chapter as seen here >>3299200.

This isn't a problem with Loomis, Hampton or studying life drawing it's a problem with people not reading the books they use and just looking at the pretty pictures.

>>3298681

I've actually done that with this book, took me like 2 or more months to finish, at first I didn't learn shit but years later I'm better so it must've been useful for something.

>>3298810
>Loomis
>Muh paragraphs
>Muh gallery of female nudes in high heels

The lack of 3/4 in Hamm is pretty inexcuseable but I do think Hamm has more practical advice and tangible "tips" and techniques than Loomis. Loomis' treatment of major masses is overly complicated.

>>3299687
if you need to rely on tips and tricks you are a dumbass cunt who misses the point of all these how to draw manuals that people constantly recommend

Where to start if i wanna draw anything related to the human body?

Already check the sticky but i cannot stand the fucking pseudo-science of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Made all the exercises.

HELP

>>3299700
Learn gesture and major masses. Go from there.

>>3298681
No. You should do that with Michael Hampton, Hogarth and then Bridgman instead.