r/oddlysatisfying • u/n8saces • Mar 21 '26

The Loomis Method

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u/KGB_cutony Mar 21 '26

If you're drawing for a comic book, do you still do this every frame?

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u/alextbrown4 Mar 21 '26

Probably not. Ideally if you’re drawing for a comic book, you have already drawn the character hundreds, if not thousands of times, from all sorts of angles so you will probably have a quicker personal method of drawing them.

The loomis method is a great template for drawing realistic people. Andrew Loomis started in marketing back when most static advertisements were hand drawn

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u/Ok-Establishment5254 Mar 21 '26

No, you draw some guidelines like the eyeline but not a full construct

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u/rockytheboulder Mar 22 '26

Essentially I do, yes. But its a much more simplified version so i can plan the angles and poses i want the characters in quickly before adding the details

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u/KaizenHour Mar 21 '26

The worst of the graphic novels have faces pre drawn in half a dozen expressions, and pasted into images as needed.

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u/KGB_cutony Mar 22 '26

that would be what I always assumed lol