Can I read Blair instead of Loomis?
i find it odd that Glenn "THICC" Vilppu never wrote anything specifically about animation when he trained generations of animators over the yearsAll his tutorials are gestures/anatomy/composition, stuff related to painting which is what got him hired in the first place but I wish he wrote something about bouncing balls...
>>7236764he didn't read loomis, why should you?
>>7236764You can even read the Bible instead of Loomis. Just read whatever helps you get further.
>>7236764Yes and you'll get better faster too.
>>7236764You could probably replace FWAP with Blair, but Blair doesn't really get into drawing realistic human figures so you'll have to move on to Loomis at some point if that's your goal.If you're interested in animation specifically you could follow up Blair with Richard Williams's Animator's Toolkit. Williams kind of starts with the assumption you already know how to draw and construct etc. but he gets deeper into the technicalities of animation (and also discusses animating realistic or semi-realistic figures).
>>7236805>Animator's ToolkitThe Animator's Survival Kit I meant.
>>7236805Cartoon Animation into Drawing Comics the Marvel Way>FWAP into FDFAIWLoomis was already outdated when this book was new in 1994.
>>7236772How can the Bible help me get better at drawing?
>>7237288Lots of marginals you can doodle lewd stuff into.
>>7237217>Drawing Comics the Marvel Way I went through that quickly and it seems there are some glaring omissions. Shading and rendering is barely discussed and there's almost nothing on anatomy, other than some basic proportions. At least they point to Bridgman and Hogarth for learning more about anatomy. It seems it would work better as a set of guidelines for an artist who already knows to draw and is looking to break into the comics industry than as a how to draw book for a beginner.The section on composition is at least nifty, the concepts were discussed by Loomis but I think the examples are better here, lifted from real comics.The bits about exaggerating poses I'm sure are useful to those who dream of drawing batmen punching supermen.
>>7237217>>7238787you have to be a complete retard to not realize that drawing comics the marvel way is just a way for marvel to get that extra buck in, and not to actually teach. It rehashes the same basic you can pick in any other decent art book, but waters it down to fit the marvel way narrative. Nobody who made that book expect you to actually learn anything worthwhile from it.
Like the way they show how you go from stick figures, to exploratory "scribbling", to the fully formed figure is VERY illuminating, but I think if you haven't first had someone like Loomis explain constructing the human figure to you in detail there's no way in hell you would understand what these guys are talking about. It's like they just say "hey remember that Loomis book you used to read? It's good stuff, now let me show how we do it in the real world". The final stage is basically "and then just draw the rest of the owl" since they haven't explained shit about anatomy or rendering.They're clearly just explaining the specific Marvel house method to someone who already knows how to draw, but they've dressed it as "kids, this is how you draw the batmens" because that sells better.
It's also hilarious how a book ostensibly about drawing comics says absolutely NOTHING about how to lay out a page and compose it so that it guides the reader through the panels in the correct order.It's shit.
>>7238797It's almost like you don't really need all that fluff in between. Just the exploratory scribbles, and the finished batman.
>>7239879That wasn't the point, the point was this is supposed to teach you how to draw the batman in the first place. It's missing explanatory steps, you can skip those when you know what you're doing, you can't skip them if you're teaching.
>>7237288> he doesn't know
>>7239909>It's missing explanatory stepsDo the exploratory scribblesLook at referenceDraw the BatmanThat's itDo you need your food chewed and pre-digested for you too?
>>7242095I don't but those who need to learn it doThat's kind of the whole point of a how to draw book.Otherwise you might as well say just draw.Loomis is still the only one who adequately explains what happens between the circles and the finished owl.
>>7236764preston blair is the GOAT
