Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators (Force Drawing Series)

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He has been a professional artist and instructor for the last fifteen years with Disney, Marvel Comics, Hasbro Toys, ABC, Microsoft, Electronics Arts, Dreamworks and Nickelodeon.

In addition to this foundation skills we can support you further, through Clothing Drawing, Composition, Animal Drawing, Character Design, Storytelling and editing for storyboards and comics, caricature, exaggeration and drawing from imagination! It features examples that show you how to: bring your work to life with rhythmic drawing techniques; create appealing and dynamic poses in your drawings; experience the figure's energy in three dimensional space; and build on your foundational anatomy and figure drawing skills to animate your drawings. A portion of FORCE drawing was inspired by animation, yet the concepts found in the approach can be used by any artist.I’ve taken an online FORCE drawing course through New Masters Academy, which was very informative and improved my figure drawing.

This is not an art book for someone who wants to learn to draw; this is a book for someone who wants to learn to draw better. I did tons of gesture drawings like I was told to, but it still was a big struggle when I had to invent functional poses. delicious anatomical knowledge expressed thru the framework of force is so sexy that it might make me want to engage with art again, sob. Examples show how forces inside the body and outside (gravity or objects) act on the human figure, and how the body reacts to the force. Author makes use of lots of diagrams and uses familiar concepts to make learning the principles of drawing force and easy process.In week six, Mike introduce you to the idea of templates and the different figure torsos used in FORCE drawing. There are many books dedicated to drawing the figure and the study of anatomy but Mike Mattesi stands alone in his challenge to draw with FORCES. FORCE drawing developed from my mentors in school, my time at Walt Disney Animation and then years teaching students while performing many experiments to see how to define a system that was inspirational and understandable. very cool drawings and probably great way to think for some people but i just can't seem to wrap my mind about the multiple uses and meanings of the used word "force"/can't turn it into something my brain can use as I just get confused when it sometimes means a force like in physics/gravity, other times directionality and other times energy and "rhythm" type stuff.