Force: Character Design from Life Drawing - Character Design from Life Drawing (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

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.

Table of Contents

Key Concepts

- Fear

- Risk

- Opinion

- Hierarchy

- Contrast and Affinity

Force with Character

- Amazing angles

- Developing ideas

Space with Character

- Spatial Bounding Box

- Playing with depth

- Forced perspective

- Ratio

Size

- Overlap

- Creating flat design

Shape with Character

- Straight to Curve Design

- Forceful Triangle

- The Brilliant Bounding Box

- Seeing ratios through Hierarchy

- Facial Ratios

- The law of Thirds

Costume with Character

- Tonal Theory

- Color theory

- Imaginative Designs

Reportage with Character

- Using forced perspective

- The character behind architecture

- Forcing the stories

Animals with Character

- Pulling character out of animals

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Force Drawing Series
Release date:	May 2008
First published:	May 2008
Authors:	Mike Mattesi
Dimensions:	279 x 215 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-240-80993-9
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer certification > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Drawing & drawings > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Illustration & commercial art > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Art techniques & materials > Art techniques & principles Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Human figures depicted in art > General Promotions
LSN:	0-240-80993-9
Barcode:	9780240809939

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