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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rpace" data-source="post: 679456" data-attributes="member: 7078">Stay away from the computer when you're learning how to draw.  Play with it, learn techniques and do fancy stuff all you want, but don't try to learn how to draw when using it.It's kinda like teaching yourself how to spell while writing in iambic pentameter.The Loomis book is an excellent recommendation.  I also think Burne Hogarth's books do more to confuse than educate -- many of his anatomical references are, well. . . . non-existant.  His lighting and drapery info is pretty solid, though.I usually suggest George Bridgman's books -- <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486227103/ref=ed_oe_o/701-8167007-7605918" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486227103/ref=ed_oe_o/701-8167007-7605918</a>It's a link to Amazon.ca, but it should give you the info to find them on your own.  The Dover paperbacks are cheap and durable.  I've had mine for 20 years.One of the first pro artists I met told me to get them -- the selling point was that Frank Frazetta used them.  I used to go through all 5 books copying nearly each page into my sketchbook then starting again -- I did that about twice a year for a few years.  It really hammers home the basics and makes everything that much easier to do.That might sound like a lot -- it wasn't -- really just an half hour or so a day and I really think I benefitted from it.Good luck,Richard</blockquote>