Hundreds of Free Art E-Books

[Ssimulacral]

Thanks this is sooooo great! Thank you thank you thank . . . you

[tomwaits4noman]

thank you........

this is an artists wet dream

[BANNED_For_POOPY_PANTS]

Sweet. 10x.

[cptjack]

Wow, great resource thread!

[Rolo]

I can't wait till when I get the time to take a look at these! : D

[TheDrunkSniper]

a huge thanks to everyone. and also can someone post a link to Art Anatomy by William Rimmer? : )

[DigitalShade]

The Norman Rockwell, Illustrator link seems to be down. Anyone know of a working link?

Here are links for the pdfs I made of the two Rockwell books. I guess it's OK to post these as they are still on the DLI site, though apparently only downloadable intermittently. The image quality in both is atrocious, but the text is great.

Norman Rockwell, Illustrator
http://www6.zippyshare.com/v/63852099/file.html

My Adventures as an Illustrator
http://www.zippyshare.com/v/4128754/file.html

[Sepulverture]

This is amazing!

Thanks a lot for sharing, and taking all that time to post all those individual links!

[Wooli]

Thank you so much!!!!!!

[armando]

Important info on "form".

History of the ideas of form in aesthetics.
http://etext.virginia.edu/cgi-local/....cgi?id=dv2-26

Adolf Hildebrand's "The problem of form in painting and sculpture".
http://www.archive.org/details/probl...inpa00ogdegoog

[Sakievich]

Someone put up the entire Famous Artist Course in pdf format.

http://onanimation.com/?p=2119

[zephyd]

please up the links of Norm rockwell

[JFierce]

Thanks for bumping this, just reformatted the computer and lost the book mark

[vulcant13]

Figure Drawing for all it's Worth by Andrew Loomis
http://fineart.sk/index.php?s=0&cat=12

If this has been posted, sorry. If not, enjoy!

[vulcant13]

No problem! The homepage has quite a lot of stuff too.

With 4 Loomis books here

[silver surfer]

The Practice & Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

http://conceptdesignworkshop.blogspo...f-drawing.html

introduction to the classic approach to the dynamics
of drawing with insights and practical advice on line drawing, mass drawing, visual memory, materials, and much more. The book's 296 pages, 84 plates

[George Abraham]

Tasteful reading it so eloquently express the work: The Practice & Science of Drawing.

What a pleasure it is to read and to have an electronic version available.

Thank you my dear boy silver surfer for your contribution.

Slowly but surely the secret's of supreme English, the tattered ravens quill on a writing desk will be mine.

> I'm just loving this stuff right now. Heeehee!! <

[Angel Intheuk]

Don't know how I missed this goldmine.. Thanks for bumping...can it be made sticky?

[George Abraham]

Is it just me or can you read the whole book?

Character Desighn in Photoshop CS

http://books.google.co.za/books?id=I...page&q&f=false

[edit] Darn. Only the first and second chapter. Good stuff for Noob character desighn though. All the considerations and questions you could ask yourself.

[silver surfer]

Tasteful reading it so eloquently express the work: The Practice & Science of Drawing.

What a pleasure it is to read and to have an electronic version available.

Thank you my dear boy silver surfer for your contribution.

Slowly but surely the secret's of supreme English, the tattered ravens quill on a writing desk will be mine.

> I'm just loving this stuff right now. Heeehee!! <

well said, my dear Sir.
I am glad I could be of service to you.

Is it just me or can you read the whole book?

Character Desighn in Photoshop CS

http://books.google.co.za/books?id=I...page&q&f=false

[edit] Darn. Only the first and second chapter. Good stuff for Noob character desighn though. All the considerations and questions you could ask yourself.

indeed, 39 pages only

[Lhesther8]

Thanks bro for useful e-books..

thanks and keep sharing....

[aboe]

thank you, these are masterpieces

[bhanu]

THE NEW YEAR OFF TO A GREAT START!!!!
Illustration magazine has made their older issues available to read online. ARCHIVES!!!!
!!!
awesome of them to do this. HELL YEAH!!!!


http://www.illustration-magazine.com/archive.html
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go read and go crazy people!!!

[sriblanc]

Any chance there is an updated way to get these files?

[briggsy@ashtons]

Which ones are you having trouble with?

[Trixtar]

Where's the pdf-thingy?
I am on the site, registered, but see no "download" link...?
Do I need special software installed?


EDIT: Nevermind, seems like there's a few that don't have pdf's...
But I snatched a lot of those that have! So, me off to study

[Brashen]

SOme of the links are dead...One I'm especially looking for is the Norman Rockwell book...

Do any of you have it and can share a download link please?

Thanks

[briggsy@ashtons]

Unfortunately the Rockwell book is still in copyright, and people who post links to copyright material here are liable to disappear in the night. Sorry.

[lapprenti]

But for books that are not still in copyright which are on the Digital library of India they can be downloaded using the DLI downloader (which they don't mind you using, and was written because the DLI site is ridiculous) that downloads all the TIFF files and then compiles them into one pdf file. You can find the barcodes for each book here, and you enter them into the downloader and that's it

There are several dead links here of books from the DLI that you can download this way

Here's a screenshot of downloading 'Blanchard Jerrold, 1891. Life Of Gustave Dore':

Unfortunately the Rockwell book is still in copyright, and people who post links to copyright material here are liable to disappear in the night. Sorry.

I checked, one of the Rockwell books (My adventures as an illustrator) is in the 'Copyright freed' section, can't find the other one. You can't download copyrighted material from the DLI, so if it's downloadable it's seemingly fine (most probably)

[Tog23]

Someone put up the entire Famous Artist Course in pdf format.

http://onanimation.com/?p=2119

The FAS asserted their rights to the course, as they are (or were, as of 2009) putting out a new digital edition, so the download was taken down.

I wish to hell I still had my grandfather's copies he willed to me; that was the thing that made me want to start drawing well.

Now long gone, as well as an entire box of oil pastels and a tin case of his oil paints...