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✑ ANDREW LOOMIS on FUN WITH A PENCIL, PART ONE, S3

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FUN WITH A PENCIL  ◇ PART ONE, S3 Today on the  JUFSEN BOOK CLUB,  we'll discuss Part One, Section 3, BLOOK ACCURACY, of the old but gold  Fun With A Pencil : How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw , released 1939 by the American illustrator Andrew Loomis.  This is a summation in own words.  All credit goes to author and creator of the book, Andrew Loomis.  For simplicity's sake,  Part One, HOW TO DRAW FUNNY FACES  has been divided into three Sections.  Section 1 ✿ BLOOK BASICS   p. 13 to p. 24 Section 2 ✿ BLOOK EXPRESSIONS  p. 25 to p. 35 ꧁ Section 3 ✿ BLOOK ACCURACY  p. 26 to p. 49  ꧂ Oh boy! Now the fun really starts! So far you've been learning the Blook Method of building heads. It goes as follows ...  Draw lightly a circle, perfectly round or lopsided. Make then some curving lines to indicate form and direction, making it a sphere in space. From that sphere, you build onto it other basic "forms" (note ...

✑ ANDREW LOOMIS on FUN WITH A PENCIL ◇ PART ONE, S2

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FUN WITH A PENCIL  ◇ PART ONE, S2 Today on the  JUFSEN BOOK CLUB,  we'll discuss Part One, Section 2, BLOOK EXPRESSIONS, of the old but gold  Fun With A Pencil : How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw , released 1939 by the American illustrator Andrew Loomis.  This is a summation in own words.  All credit goes to author and creator of the book, Andrew Loomis.  For simplicity's sake,  Part One, HOW TO DRAW FUNNY FACES  has been divided into three Sections.  Section 1 ✿ BLOOK BASICS   p. 13 to p. 24 ꧁ Section 2 ✿ BLOOK EXPRESSIONS  p. 25 to p. 35  ꧂ Section 3 ✿ BLOOK ACCURACY  p. 26 to p. 49 ... Section 2, BLOOK EXPRESSIONS of Part One opens up the cookie jar, where Professor Blook gives us a bite to taste a whole tray of different expressions. A BIG help when it comes to reference for your very own, imaginative Blook. One key note to take from Blook's  Expression Chart is, as he says himself  "Expressio...

✑ ANDREW LOOMIS on FUN WITH A PENCIL ◇ PART ONE, S1

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FUN WITH A PENCIL  ◇ PART ONE, S1 Today on the  JUFSEN BOOK CLUB,  we'll discuss Part One, Section 1, BLOOK BASICS, of the old but gold  Fun With A Pencil : How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw , released 1939 by the American illustrator Andrew Loomis.  This is a summation in own words.  All credit goes to author and creator of the book, Andrew Loomis.  Down below you can find a summation of key points. For simplicity's sake, Part One HOW TO DRAW FUNNY FACES has been divided into three Sections.  ꧁ Section 1 ✿ BLOOK BASICS   p. 13 to p. 24  ꧂ Section 2 ✿ BLOOK EXPRESSIONS p. 25 to p. 35 Section 3 ✿ BLOOK ACCURACY  p. 26 to p. 49 With that outta the way... Let's start! Our buddy and mentor, Professor Blook starts off with saying "Grab a pencil and paper quickly!" because this was a long time, that was all there was to use. Now, however you can use whatever media you'd like, a digital media as for example  ProCreate , or a...

✑ ANDREW LOOMIS on FUN WITH A PENCIL ◇ PREFACE AND INTRO

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FUN WITH A PENCIL  ◇ PREFACE AND INTRO Let's start the JUFSEN BOOK CLUB  with the an old but gold  Fun With A Pencil : How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw , released 1939 by the American illustrator Andrew Loomis.  This is a summation in own words. All credit goes to the author and creator of the book, Andrew Loomis.  Down below you can find a summation of key points. Andrew Loomis begins with a open quote, suggesting that " (...) Most people love to draw, even when they know little abou t it." And ends with " (...) It's a shame not to be able to do it better". Everybody, all from an engineer, a biologist, a bodybuilder, a mathmatician, of course a drawer and on and on, could all credit in their own way, from learning the skill to draw. That's right, it's a skill! Drawing has often been associated as a kind of special gift , coming from the heavens, that only a selected few can develop. In actuality, it’s a skill we ALL can grow and bloom. Like Br...