I know, somebody messed up trading this book in to a used book store for a couple bucks! It is in great condition. The rain jacket it alittle folded at the top, but no problems otherwise. I’ve been reading through it and it really is great. I’m learning alot. 
Andrew Loomis
meta87
#41
ScottJohnson
#42
The good thing with this site is that they have “happy hours”. During those hours (9 EST - 11 EST) in which their download restrictions are lifted.
alastairwinter
#43
Hey all,
Went to the local Kinkos today and tried to get a copy of a Loomis book printed out, and well after looking into the copyright information so the counter-lady wouldn’t feel as though she were about to be fired and sued–it seems that according to Copyright Law, it would be illegal to print out Loomis’ works without permission from either Penguin (which owns Viking) or the family. As for the death of the author and out of print issues, Loomis passed away in 1959 (so even with the 70 yrs additional they add which I read can be increased) we’d still have to wait till somewhere near 2030; as for out-of-print it means nothing about out-of-copyright (by law it means that it defaults back to family which re-registered their copyright on the books after 1978 so they have at least another 70 yrs – 2047 at least).
So unless you can find something from the publisher stating that it is okay with them to print the book for personal use, then be wary of the copyright fairy. 
If anyone knows different, I’d love to know…so I can go back to Kinkos. 
Sagii
#44
well I have to say I just found this thread and clicked on Loomis book the first one in the website… “Fun with a Pencil”
I must admit I suck at drawing… but I followed from page 8-18 and in 10 pages was able to draw what he was drawing… So I would say it is a great way to learn some things, I am having fun doing all these little faces
thanks for sharing this website and his teachings.
Edit: are his books really that rare… i neve knew… too bad because they are very helpful
EdVirilio
#46
Thanks for hosting the files phyreX!
Was browsing through the stickies and came across this fine thread. Thanks for all the efforts by cloudmover and phyreX to host the files for everyone in anyway possible.
Hope these ebooks will be of great help, just started out learning more about illustration/digital art and don’t really know where to start! Hopefully this thread will point me in the correct direction, Andrew Loomis here i come!
Btw cloud, perhaps you could use megaupload.com instead of rapidshare, IMO it is better than rapidshare since it doesn’t really have that much limitations.
Mu11
#47
Hi everyone,
Just in case anyone is having trouble downloading the PDFs (which was the case with me, though I can’t remember anymore why, actually…) here’s a method how to create a PDF yourself so you can always fall back to saveloomisdotorg.
If you (on saveloomisdotorg) open each page of the book you’re interested in (tabbed browsing helps a lot…) and save each page as an image to let’s say a directory called “drawing head and hands” you can select all of the jpgs and via rightclick print them to a pdf-printer such as the free PDFcreator and voilà…
it sounds like an awful lot of work (saving each image), but it’s not that bad actually and if for some reason a download does not work you can do it like this - I put together everything from Loomis that way, except of Creative Illustration.
Just thought you might want to know…
CBee
#48
If you (on saveloomisdotorg) open each page of the book you’re interested in (tabbed browsing helps a lot…) and save each page as an image to let’s say a directory called “drawing head and hands” you can select all of the jpgs and via rightclick print them to a pdf-printer such as the free PDFcreator and voilà…
I woundn’t recommend that. I almost gave myself Carpel Tunnel doing it that way. My hands were numb for a week. Finding a downloadable file or reading the saveloomis site online are better options.
meta87
#49
Does anyone need one of the books in pdf format? I could upload one to my server if needed.
Let me know
Sequent
#50
Thanks to those who have been hosting these pdfs. Loomis books are extremely difficult to find and very expensive when you do find them. So, these are a most welcome treat indeed! I think if nothing else, Loomis is an excellent starting point and he’s really good at explaining the nuts and bolts that will get your going.
Of some of the others mentioned… Burne Hogarth… well, I think his style is closely related to comic book drawing - if he’s the one I’m thinking of. So, that would explain the emphasis on muscles and dynamic poses.
Sanne-chan
#51
I haven’t read them yet (I have to dig up my english-dutch dictionary first, I know I left it somewhere…), but from what I’ve heard here, Loomis is like the Holy Grail for artists, so I’ll definitely give it a try!
I was just wondering: i know the original loomis is out of print and very rare, but I’ve also heared of reprints, but with a lot of chapters missing (or something like that). Let’s say i walk into a bookstore and i see a copy of a loomis book (hey, you never know, right?). How can I tell if it is the real thing or just a cheap incomplete reprint? Since i don’t know what both of them look like… 
Mu11
#52
Well this should be rather simple…
first of all they should be rather old and used as they are out of print for years.
Besides you can take a look at each page of all the books at saveloomis.org in advance and find out what those books are all about, anyway.
And somewhere in this thread there was a link to amazon to show the “loomislookalike”-version.
bye
dbclemons
#53
The Loomis books published by Walter Foster, “Figures in Action” & “How to Draw the Head,” were edited and condensed. The originals were published by several different places; Viking and a couple others. I remember reading somewhere that a person who wanted to have the PDFs on their site contacted one of these places and was told as long as they were not being resold it was cool. Whether or not that’s on a case-by-case basis, I can’t say. You never heard this from me ;).
Loomis died in 1959, by the way. Both he and Nicolaides learned from Bridgeman. Nicolaides’ style resembles Bridgeman in many ways, but I prefer Loomis. He has a much cleaner and accurate touch that makes it easy to understand and emmulate.
-David
SumGii
#55
Hello I was wondering if anyone has a suggestion for the best order to read these books?
Thank you in advance.
JA
Mu11
#56
Hi,
depends on your level
As I am more or less an art idiot “fun with a pencil” was exactly what I needed for a start. It starts with drawing balls and funny faces (preparation for his ball-and-plane method of constructing human heads) and deals with complete gestures, perspective, composition, light and shadow.
“Successful Drawing” and “Figure Drawing For what it’s worth” as well as “drawing the head and the hands” each seem to be a good next step, which takes the above concepts even further (more detailed study material).
“Eye of the painter” and “Creative Illustration” are aimed at professional illustrators (even giving them career tips) though the rules for composition and especially most of the stuff in “Creative Illustration” holds true for a beginner’s attempts at drawing, too.
“Fun with a pencil” is exactly that: fun… with a pencil. Give it a try…
Darktwin
#57
Hello everyone, I like to thank everyone for posting and reposting these great books to learn from, I’ve known about this thread for awhile and just now downloaded the pdf format books, thanks again guys and gals
tlaine
#58
Sorry to bump a older thread, just wanted to mention the saveloomis org site has removed all the books.
Anyone happen to know if they are planing on reprinting these books (and maybe that was the reason they took them down)? I wasn’t fast enough in getting the images saved 
anyone have a copy of them that can email them to me?
chow-mein
#59
I am curious to know as well. I believe the company that publishes the Walter Foster drawing books have some rights to the Loomis material. Maybe they purchased all the rights and plans to bring the books back in printed form.
