Figure Drawing For All It's Worth —

A few months ago, I won an e-bay auction for a copy of Andrew Loomis's Figure Drawing For All It's Worth. When the book arrived, though, it was so musty I could barely stand to have it in my apartment. It sat for about a month in a black garbage bag filled with kitty litter. Eventually the stench of it was bearable enough for me to pick up, but I didn't feel I had the time to devote to studying the book until recently. Loomis really was an excellent draughtsman, and the instruction he gives is priceless. 

Loomis stresses the value of construction. Here are the first of as many of Loomis's simple stick figures as it takes for me to feel I have a good enough grasp of proportion and balance to move onto Loomis's more complex stick figures. Not a lot of fun to look at, but good practice.