As a complete beginner, is it worth it to jump right into loomis?

>>2699248
That's your work?

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>>2699248

Yes. Exercises should only supplement your work, even learning "fundamentals".
Also pick other book, "Fun with Pencil" is easily the worst written Loomis book and it doesn't help that he is very dated now.
What you want to get first is "Keys to Drawing" by Dodson.

But remember, always - first your own complete drawings, and only then - books. Remember that how you approach drawing and learning is more important than milleage.

Still - draw. Draw a ton. And try to bring out your own creativity in every work you do. Make notes to yourself. Try to make art something that comes right from within you.

>>2699250
No, it's something I look up to and want to replicate the style eventually

>>2699258

Dodson has inside of his book quite a lot drawings like that. You should check it.

>>2699255
Listen to this dude OP. Start with keys to drawing. Loomis isn't actually for beginners its for intermediate people.

>>2699248
As a complete beginer you should just draw from life. Put one simple object on a white sheet of paper and get a single light source and draw it.

Spend hours observing it and recreating it with basic shapes and putting in the values. Then try to start remembering all of the basic shapes you used to draw them and recreate them from memory.

As a complete beginner, I want to learn to draw realistically from imagination without reference. Is this something that is impossible for me to achieve? I don't really find drawing fun at all if i'm using reference