Fun With A Pencil: How Everybody Can Easily Learn to Draw

Andrew Loomis (1892-1959) is revered amongst artists - including comics superstar Alex Ross - for his mastery of drawing. His first book, Fun With a Pencil, published in 1939 is a wonderfully crafted and engaging introduction to drawing, cartooning, and capturing the essence of a subject all while having fun. With delightful step-by-step instruction from Professor Blook, Loomis’s charming alter ego on the page.

Only the most talented end experienced artist can draw at once the final outlines.

Outlining is very important and most dificult.

As many things you start drawing from simple to more complex forms.

Simplest forms are: sphere, the cube, and the egg. Author seems like to use these forms as basis.

If you use constructions line, they can be later easily removed and only few could guess how it had be done.

Part One

We start from outlines (blue lines) and then as last step we draw final black lines.