I have several of Andrew Loomis' books as .pdf files I downloaded; and one more that I bought on eBay. When I read through them, his methods make sense. His drawing technique seems to flow from one step to the next in a logical, useable fashion.
Until I try it. Then, I just can't seem to wrap my head around the various parts of a head and where they go. I'm especially lost when I'm working with a photograph I want to copy, and trying to build it using his methods. The model's face never matches the proportions of the ball, and I get completely confused. The eyebrow line seems too high or too low; the space for the nose seems wrong, the lips don't appear to be where he says they should be.
I'm off to work on it some more this evening, as I'd really love to learn to make it work for me. I don't want to spend my life just copying photos; I want to be able to draw from life and from imagination and I don't want to spend hours on each subject. But I want to be able to do it in realistic style, not turning the model into some caricature or modelling distorted features. :(
Also...I really don't like that so many artists idealize human forms by making them taller or longer-legged or wider. I see slenderized feet and tenderized curves and mechanized muscles...and kinda shudder. I'm more interested in depicting reality realistically. I'll save the heroes and the impossibly endowed for the day I take up cartooning.
Meanwhile, I spend more time fighting with Explorer than I do reading or anything else. I have to restart every page over and over and over every session. I open one too many tabs or try to navigate to another page or open a document...and the whole thing crashes so I have to restart it all. :( And the "restore last session" is a joke. If the last session crashed it, it will attempt to restore it errors and all. :(
I feel like kicking it out and reinstalling the older version. And I would, too, if I wasn't so darn convinced that it would just automatically update itself again. :(
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