Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination
To Learn More: Drawing the Head Using the Loomis Method
A course by Marcos Chin , Illustrator
About the video: To Learn More: Drawing the Head Using the Loomis Method
Overview
“In this extra video, I'll show how to draw the face using the Loomis method (by the American Illustrator Andrew Loomis 1892 - 1959). ”
In this video lesson Marcos Chin addresses the topic: To Learn More: Drawing the Head Using the Loomis Method, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination. Learn how to transform simple shapes into engaging narrative illustrations featuring characters full of color and personality.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Hey, everyone. We'll draw faces today. I'll teach you how to draw faces using a method called the Loomis method. It was developed by Andrew Loomis. He was an illustrator from 1892 to 1959. Someone may need to fact-check that for me. He was an American illustrator and he created the Loomis method on how to draw faces and bodies using geometric forms and proportions. He would distill, simplify the human body into simple geometric forms, so that you could draw it from memory from any angle or perspective. It's a cool and neat technique. Especially for those of you who enjoy drawing figures, ...”
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Course summary for: Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination
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Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Traditional illustration

Marcos Chin
A course by Marcos Chin
Marcos Chin is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared on surface and wall designs, on book and CD covers, advertisements, fashion catalogs, and magazines. He has worked with companies such as MTA Arts for Transit, Neiman Marcus, Fiat, Budweiser, Time, Rolling Stone Magazine, The New Yorker, GQ, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times.
Marcos has given lectures and workshops throughout the US and abroad. He currently lives in New York, where he teaches Illustration at the School of Visual Arts.
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