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Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators

Capture the force in your life drawing subjects with this practical guide to dynamic drawing techniques - packed with superb, powerfully drawn 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
* Use the asymmetry of straight and curved lines to clarify the direction of force in the body
* Build on your foundational anatomy and figure drawing skills to animate your drawings
*Apply the theory of force to your on-location and animal drawing observations

Whether you are an animator, comic book artist, illustrator or fine arts' student you'll learn to use rhythm, shape, and line to bring out the life in any subject while Mike Mattesi's infectious enthusiasm will have you reaching for your pencils!

Mike Mattesi is the owner and founder of Entertainment Art Academy (www.enterartacad.com) based in Southern California. He has been a professional production artist and instructor for the last fifteen years with clients including Disney, Marvel Comics, Hasbro Toys, ABC, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, DreamWorks and Nickelodeon.

Audience level: Intermediate to advanced

* Discover and master the techniques of rhythmic drawing and bring your work to life
* Learn from a professional production artist who has successfully taught his unique techniques for the last fifteen years
* Written in an accessible, enthusiastic style which will have you reaching for your pencils!

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September 22, 2006
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'For animators or anyone exploring life drawing, this book is an inspirational choice.'
3D World, Feb 2007

'Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators, 2e is key to understanding how to capture forceful poses with dynamic drawing. It is informative, concise, and packed full of inspirational illustrations...Force is not just another 'anatomy for animators' book - it assumes that the reader has experience of figure drawing. The focus here is to build on that knowledge and to use straight and curved lines to show the direction of force in the body. Every point in the text is thoroughly demonstrated with the help of superb, dynamically drawn examples.' - Animated News, Oct. 2, 2006

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Animators and artists will discover and master the difficult techniques of rhythmic drawing - bringing their work to life!

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Focal Press; 2nd edition (September 22, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 228 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0240808452
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0240808451
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.56 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.75 x 8.5 x 11 inches

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korvin

Came in great condition. Really enjoyed it!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 7, 2022

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Came awesomely. Had sum help but my fault I did have great help. Love this

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Carlos

Such an amazing book, but with a poor binding

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2013

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I'm not used to writing reviews, but I didn't want to miss this opportunity to express how much I enjoyed the book and the one thing I think it could be improved.

What this book IS: The book is a comprehensive guide on how to approach the human figure in a different way. Focusing on motion and how to create a more dynamic and forceful drawing. It deals with line, perspective (applied to the figure) and even a little bit of clothing and folds.

What this book IS NOT: This is not your typical "how to draw the human figure book". It doesn't deal with the classical figure height measured in heads and neither is a book to learn anatomy at all. For that kind of reading I would suggest something on the likes of Andrew Loomis or even Human Anatomy for Artists from András Szunyoghy.

The binding, sadly, is another deal. You have to handle this book with a lot of care if you want it to last. I'm not used to leaving books laying around but I certainly would like being able to have it opened close to me while drawing to better apply some of it's concepts. This is not possible, as you can hear the binding slowly "cracking" and after little use I had to use a bit of glue to prevent some pages from detaching.

Overall, an amazing and unique book that would seriously benefit from a better binding, which is the only reason why I didn't give it five stars.

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ParkaTop Contributor: Coloring

Useful for animators and life drawing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 3, 2009

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Here's a very useful book not just for animators, but for anyone who do character drawings. It's called Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators, authored by Michael D. Mattesi.

First of all, this is a book for intermediate and advanced artists. Foundational knowledge of anatomy is required to fully appreciate and follow along with the lessons.

This book is about creating realistic poses for life drawing. 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.

There are lots of tips and illustrated examples on strong and memorable poses, such as the using of structure and form, overlaps, foreshortening, silhouettes etc. The explanations are clear and simple, even very sketchy illustrated examples bring the point across with very few lines.

While many instructional drawing books teaches how to draw, this book teaches how to think before drawing. Whenever I draw, I always remind myself of the tips to help prevent my characters from being too static.

Additionally, there are also chapters on handling clothing, drawing on location and drawing animals.

(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

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T-Mo

Mattesi is a pro.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 18, 2007

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This book definitely is an off-shoot of James McMullan's High Focus approach to drawing, although Mattesi discusses many of his own concepts as well. It is similar to High Focus in that it teaches its readers: to see the figure as being made up of three dimensional forms, to use the all important hierarchical approach, NOT to just copy the figure using measurements and negative space estimations, to feel the forms as they are being drawn, and view drawing as a very interactive experience. It is different from McMullan's approach in that Mattesi strongly emphasizes the importance of finding directional and applied "forces" (hence the name) throughout the figure. This becomes a very important concept for animators because of the nature of animating. In the figure drawings, the forces, the squashes, and the stretches are all exagerated, just as an animator has to exagerate his or her key drawings in this manner. Also, the drawings in the book tend to reflect Mattesi's background in animation, whereas McMullan's drawings are more realistic. I believe this book is written specifically for animators. However, the classically trained artist has much to learn from this book as well.

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David J. Soto

Forceful Life Drawing for Animators

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 31, 2008

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Force: Character Design from Life Drawing

I immediately applied some of the major principles highlighted in this superb book on approaching the task of life drawing in a different way. As a cartoonist, I have often struggled with trying to get a grip on drawing a human quickly and effortlessly. Sure, I have all the other books, but I came across this one accidently while browsing at my local bookstore. On a whim and to see if I had grasped the major concepts correctly, I used a book on dinosaurs and an advert I received in the mail as a starting point. I drew my rectangles and used a pyramid as the main body and I instantly saw an improvement in my drawing quailty and characterization with a more forceful feeling.

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Please note, the cartoon characters at bottom of page where done before I read and studied this book. I also ended up buying the other book by Mike Mattesi, "Force: Character Design from Life Drawing".

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Blaine Counter

This book is awesome! It explores areas of figure drawing that essential ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 9, 2015

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This book is awesome! It explores areas of figure drawing that essential in creating dynamic, interesting forms. Perhaps a book more for beginners to moderately experienced artist. The author has an easy style of writing and explaining his techniques, though some of his ideas are a bit high concept (which I find to be a good thing). My drawing has jumped up a few extra levels since I've started reading, I'm a little more than halfway through at the moment. The book has been so good thus far that I went ahead and ordered his book on animal drawing.

Overall, a great book with much wisdom and technique. Easy to read, challenging to master. Essential for any artist looking for guidance on how to draw the human figure effortlessly and with appeal.

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BERNARD CANAVAN

A GREAT BOOK LET DOWN BY SHODDY PUBLISHING!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 4, 2014

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A truly great book, full of new material, clearly written and wonderfully illustrated. A book to treasure, and to refer to constantly. But the whole effect has been ruined by the use of cheap perfect binding by Focal Press, part of the Taylor and Francis publishing group so that my new copy is already falling to bits. Somebody ought to tell them that smudges of glue at the back of a large sheaf of A4 pages - what looks like a new glue-saving technique of only glueing half the sheet to a thin card cover - is not going to be be sufficient for purpose. When i took the book out of its wrapper two pages fell one. I glued them back in with household glue, but now have resorted to holding the whole publication together with a bulldog clip.

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Seymour K.

Inspirational!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 31, 2013

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Don't be put off by the cover. This is a serious book which stands out from the crowd and more than lives up to its expectation. I have bought a number of so called 'expressive' life drawing books where the authors' drawing skills leave much to be desired, with gimmicky effects used to disguise a singular lack of talent. Mike Mattesi breaks this mould and provides real inspiration.

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Alex

Excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 20, 2011

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Brilliant book, before my drawings were anatomically correct but fairly dull and static. Really helped my figure sketches come to life.

Author makes use of lots of diagrams and uses familiar concepts to make learning the principles of drawing force and easy process.

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Grandma Janet

New approach to life drawing.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 26, 2013

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I have many books on life drawing . This one has a fresh approach concentrating on movement and balance in the model and how how this may be achieved in a drawing. Enjoyable illustrations-- not just for the animator.

Martin Stephenson

Required reading for any illustrator

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 31, 2018

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This book has helped to push my art work up to new levels, one of four books that I will re-read again and again.

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