The Style of Loish: Finding your artistic voice (Art of)

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In this visually stunning hardback, globally loved artist Lois van Baarle, AKA Loish, explores the origins, influences, and features of her style, and helps readers do the same deep dive into their own style. It is her third book with 3dtotal Publishing, a natural progression from the bestselling The Art of Loish (2016) and The Sketch Book of Loish (2018) which to date have sold over 85,000 copies combined. The Style of Loish now sees the artist explore her own style through several facets of her work, including creating volume, choosing color, establishing flow, and the ideas and subjects themselves. While looking at the motivation behind her own work, Loish also guides the reader through ideas and tutorials to help them identify, understand, and even evolve their own style. The book bursts with brand new, specially commissioned art that provides a unique opportunity to understand the foundations of Loish's style. She reveals the journey she took to pinpoint when and how her style was created. Combined with candid advice and a passion for supporting fellow artists, the book is beautiful, inspirational, and practical for artists of all styles and abilities. Review: Beautiful - As always Loish’s art is stunning. This is her 3rd book in the series and all are equally helpful. I wouldn’t call this a tutorial book even though there are just a few tutorials. It’s more about educational techniques and artistic rule-of-thumbs that are to help your overall skills instead of learning to draw one character in one pose. Many of the lessons I would consider advanced (things you learn about in art school), but don’t be intimidated if you are new. These techniques are foundational and helpful to learn early. Having had similar education as Loish, I can compliment her on her thoroughness and ability to visually show you the concepts each lesson is teaching. She teaches art like an animator, and in my honest opinion, those are the best art teachers. They approach art like a key frame instead of a stagnant image, and this book does just that. Final thoughts: would recommend this book to anyone who is still learning and growing in art. You may know some things, but there’s always something to learn from any artist. Review: Amazing Artistic Resource - With this book, I now own all three of Loish's art books and I have to say this one is such an amazing resource and is full of so many helpful tips that will really help you think about how you approach your art. I would 100% recommend this book. It will help you explore styles, break down their different components and see how you can study them and apply them to your art in ways that actually speak to you. Expert advice on how to use reference properly so you're not just copying what you're observing, but you're actually learning about what makes the reference what it is, so you can apply it in so many ways. So happy to have this book be apart of my collection and art journey. Worth it!