books by Mike Mattesi (through dynamic edition)

books by Mike Mattesi

books:

Force: The Key to Capturing Life Through Drawing

9 reviews
Mike Mattesi

iUniverse Star, 2004

Brings Art to Life and Life to Art
The focus here is primarily on the use of assymetry through straight and curved lines to show the direction of force in the body. This is covered in other books, but not this extent. Other methods treat this material as secondary to contour and gesture, here it is the focus of a drawing. The book is filled with excellent ,forceful examples of using rhythm, shape, and line to bring out the ...

Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators, Second Edition

19 reviews
Mike Mattesi

Focal Press, 2006

The best I have found
I just finished reading this book the first time through, and it's great. All of the other reviews are spot on. It does help to have some knowledge of anatomy, but if you don't, you can still learn from this book, and it will make learning anatomy more fun. It has lots of great full page drawings too. I've noticed improvements in my skills, and look forward to going through it again in the ...

Force: Character Design from Life Drawing

1 review
Mike Mattesi

Focal Press, 2008

A strong foundation for creating characters
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 ...