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Force: Character Design from Life Drawing

By Mike Mattesi
Series: Force Drawing Series
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Force: Character Design from Life Drawing by Mike Mattesi teaches you how to create compelling characters inspired by real-life observations. The book focuses on using life drawing to capture poses, features, and personalities, guiding you to develop and 'PUSH' your art to achieve dramatic, believable characters that resonate with audiences. Filled with colour illustrations, photographs of models, step-by-step development, and exercises, it equips you with essential skills for character design.
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Ideal for aspiring character designers, illustrators, and artists interested in improving their life drawing and creative character development skills.

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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.

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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 colour illustrations and photographs of the models who inspired them, Force: Character Design from Life Drawing includes step-by-step explanations 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.

Series: Force Drawing Series

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780240809939

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 May 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Focal Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 219.0mm

Height: 276.0mm

Weight: 849g

Pages: 240

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Arts & Culture Arts and Crafts Mike Mattesi Non-Fiction Series: Force Drawing Series

About the Author

Michael Mattesi has authored several FORCE books, published in numerous languages, utilized around the world to inspire and educate artists on the concept of FORCE. He has instructed FORCE Drawing for over twenty years and inspired thousands of artists.

Simultaneously, Michael has been contributing his skills as a professional artist on numerous award-winning projects in varied capacities and has collaborated with Pixar, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Walt Disney Consumer Products, Marvel Comics, Hasbro Toys, ABC, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, DreamWorks/PDI, Zynga, The School of Visual Arts, Beijing University, Art Center, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, San Jose State University, The Academy of Art University, Nickelodeon, LeapFrog and many others. Michael’s students occupy all fields of the art industry and have themselves gained prestige for their abilities.

Michael lives in northern California with his wife and two daughters. Visit him at:

DrawingFORCE.com

and connect with Michael on Facebook at:

DrawingFORCE.com with Mike Mattesi

or email him directly:

mike@drawingforce.com

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