William Andrew Loomis was an American illustrator, writer, and art instructor.
13 Facts About Andrew Loomis
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However, Loomis is best known as the writer of a series of instructional art books printed throughout the 20th century, and as the inventor of the "Loomis method".
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Andrew Loomis was born on June 15,1892, in Syracuse, New York.
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Andrew Loomis grew up in Zanesville, Ohio, and spent much of his working life in Chicago, Illinois.
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Andrew Loomis studied at the Art Students League of New York under George Bridgman and Frank DuMond when he was 19.
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Andrew Loomis then went back to Chicago to work at an art studio and study at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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From that time until the late 1930s Andrew Loomis produced advertising paintings for many large companies such as Coca-Cola, Studebaker, Palmolive, Quaker Oats, Munsingwear, and Kellogg's.
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Andrew Loomis was the official portrait painter of the Dionne quintuplets, and he created Jack and Bingo for the cover of the Cracker Jack box.
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In 1932, Andrew Loomis created paintings for the advertisements that would introduce 3 Musketeers.
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Andrew Loomis would go on to release several more books in the coming decades, including one of his most popular, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth.
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Andrew Loomis died in 1959, but his final book, The Eye of the Painter and the Elements of Beauty, was printed posthumously.
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The Andrew Loomis Method is a drawing technique that uses grids to represent the human head from various angles accurately.
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Some of Andrew Loomis's books are currently being published in Japanese via Maar Sha Co.