Creative IllustrationDuring his career as one of America's most sought after illustrators, Andrew Loomis (1889 1959) taught at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, and in 1939 he codified his lessons in his first manual, Fun with a Pencil. Four years later it had already been through six printings, and he followed up over the next two decades with a series of even more successful how to books that remain the gold standard for artists to this day. Creative Illustration