Design creative characters inspired by real people. Let Mike Mattesi show you how to use life drawing to discover the poses, features and personalities which form the basis of character and then build, develop and ‘PUSH’ your drawings to new heights of dramatic and visual impact for believable characters audiences can relate to.
Packed with color illustrations and photographs of the models who inspired them. With step-by-step explanation of how the characters were developed and exercises for you to sharpen your skills this is everything you need to bring your characters to life.
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106 reviews for Force: Character Design from Life Drawing: Character Design from Life Drawing (Force Drawing Series)
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Amazon CustomerJay –
This book is I have been looking for! If you are an animator or character designer, you must have it.
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Roberto –
Excelente libro que toma los fundamentos del dibujo con modelo en vivo y los expande para explorar el diseño de personajes basado en los fundamentos de dibujo académico. Para mi es refrescante leer un libro de figura humana ya que generalmente tienen un tono más seco. Buen complemento al primer libro de este mismo autor.
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Unprepared –
Like all Force books – the content and the book is amazing. And a great reference made even better if you follow their youtube channel or video courses on their website. AMAZING product. Like all books purchased on Amazon – it came bent and damaged. I don’t think amazon is capable of delivery new books that appear new still upon arrival.
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Danilo F. Silva –
Very helpful! Loved to read and could extract some nice and clear insights, this book is full of illustrations and text instructions. It worth the price.
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Amazon Customer –
I am blown away by such amazing service. Thank you to who I bought it off. Next day delivery was a lovely surprise. The book itself is of great help to me with my MA in Illustration. Highly recommended for character design
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chanezzbubble –
Ayant déjà les deux livres de la série Force, en français, qui m’ont beaucoup appris et apporté. Ne trouvant pas de version française de ce troisième volume, j’ai acheté cette version originale qui m’a également enthousiasmé. Même si c’est un peu plus difficile à lire en anglais.
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Jean Claude de La Ronde –
This is the sequel to the book “Force” with I highly recommended to all artists. I’ll suggest this one also because you get to have a good introduction on the topic and getting into the right habit of establishing a proper working habit that will benefit your concepts and make you a better artist in the end.
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Kathryn –
This great book is wonderful for teaching students new to the art of animation.
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Amazon Customer –
There’s only a couple character design books out there. Most notably Creating Characters with Personality: For Film, TV, Animation, Video Games, and Graphic Novels. This new volume of Force takes on design from a more exploratory standpoint. One that can also lead to a foundation of more informed choices when working with Bancroft’s methods later on.
The text starts off with a review of the drawing techniques Mattesi laid out in the original Force. Not only the concepts of drawing with forceful lines and shapes, but also ensuring every aspect of your drawing make a statement about the subject. It’s that thought process that leads to interesting designs.
This book has no shortage of examples of experimental designs based off of posed models. Not only from the author, but also from several noted artists including Stephen Silver, Dean Yeagle & Ragnar. Each example includes explainations for the artistic choices made.
Flipping through the pages of this book you, you won’t find many of the tight, nailed down drawings you might expect from a character design book, but the principles Mattesi teaches build a strong foundation to create better, more interesting designs.
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Highly Recommend –
Good book for breaking down how to approach drawing clothed figures.
Highly Recommend.
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Ken –
Great Product and Received on Time. Description of product was spot on and questions answered really promoted the purchase Thanks
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Danilo Junior –
It’s a great book about character design. This book has a lot of information about the design aspect: line, shape, geometry, weight, rhythm.. and so on.
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mellowpanda –
I really, really like this book. I’d recommend it to anyone who likes Mattesi’s method. I took it to a life drawing class with me once and the next thing I knew, everyone was asking to look at it. I actually like to copy drawings from this book in order to get additional practice (on top of incorporating the tips).
Amazon CustomerJay –
This book is I have been looking for! If you are an animator or character designer, you must have it.
Roberto –
Excelente libro que toma los fundamentos del dibujo con modelo en vivo y los expande para explorar el diseño de personajes basado en los fundamentos de dibujo académico. Para mi es refrescante leer un libro de figura humana ya que generalmente tienen un tono más seco.
Buen complemento al primer libro de este mismo autor.
Unprepared –
Like all Force books – the content and the book is amazing. And a great reference made even better if you follow their youtube channel or video courses on their website.
AMAZING product.
Like all books purchased on Amazon – it came bent and damaged. I don’t think amazon is capable of delivery new books that appear new still upon arrival.
Danilo F. Silva –
Very helpful! Loved to read and could extract some nice and clear insights, this book is full of illustrations and text instructions. It worth the price.
Amazon Customer –
I am blown away by such amazing service. Thank you to who I bought it off. Next day delivery was a lovely surprise. The book itself is of great help to me with my MA in Illustration. Highly recommended for character design
chanezzbubble –
Ayant déjà les deux livres de la série Force, en français, qui m’ont beaucoup appris et apporté. Ne trouvant pas de version française de ce troisième volume, j’ai acheté cette version originale qui m’a également enthousiasmé.
Même si c’est un peu plus difficile à lire en anglais.
Jean Claude de La Ronde –
This is the sequel to the book “Force” with I highly recommended to all artists. I’ll suggest this one also because you get to have a good introduction on the topic and getting into the right habit of establishing a proper working habit that will benefit your concepts and make you a better artist in the end.
Kathryn –
This great book is wonderful for teaching students new to the art of animation.
Amazon Customer –
There’s only a couple character design books out there. Most notably Creating Characters with Personality: For Film, TV, Animation, Video Games, and Graphic Novels. This new volume of Force takes on design from a more exploratory standpoint. One that can also lead to a foundation of more informed choices when working with Bancroft’s methods later on.
The text starts off with a review of the drawing techniques Mattesi laid out in the original Force. Not only the concepts of drawing with forceful lines and shapes, but also ensuring every aspect of your drawing make a statement about the subject. It’s that thought process that leads to interesting designs.
This book has no shortage of examples of experimental designs based off of posed models. Not only from the author, but also from several noted artists including Stephen Silver, Dean Yeagle & Ragnar. Each example includes explainations for the artistic choices made.
Flipping through the pages of this book you, you won’t find many of the tight, nailed down drawings you might expect from a character design book, but the principles Mattesi teaches build a strong foundation to create better, more interesting designs.
Highly Recommend –
Good book for breaking down how to approach drawing clothed figures.
Highly Recommend.
Ken –
Great Product and Received on Time.
Description of product was spot on and questions answered really promoted the purchase
Thanks
Danilo Junior –
It’s a great book about character design. This book has a lot of information about the design aspect: line, shape, geometry, weight, rhythm.. and so on.
mellowpanda –
I really, really like this book. I’d recommend it to anyone who likes Mattesi’s method. I took it to a life drawing class with me once and the next thing I knew, everyone was asking to look at it. I actually like to copy drawings from this book in order to get additional practice (on top of incorporating the tips).