Force: Character Design from Life Drawing: Character Design from Life Drawing (Force Drawing Series)

Good book for breaking down how to approach drawing clothed figures.Highly Recommend.

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 drawing techniques Mattesi laid out in the original Force. Not only the concepts of drawing with forceful lines and shapes, but also ensuring every aspect of your drawing make a statement about the subject. It's that thought process that leads to interesting designs.This book has no shortage of examples of experimental designs based off of posed models. Not only from the author, but also from several noted artists including Stephen Silver, Dean Yeagle & Ragnar. Each example includes explainations for the artistic choices made.Flipping through the pages of this book you, you won't find many of the tight, nailed down drawings you might expect from a character design book, but the principles Mattesi teaches build a strong foundation to create better, more interesting designs.

This great book is wonderful for teaching students new to the art of animation.

I really, really like this book. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes Mattesi's method. I took it to a life drawing class with me once and the next thing I knew, everyone was asking to look at it. I actually like to copy drawings from this book in order to get additional practice (on top of incorporating the tips).

Very helpful! Loved to read and could extract some nice and clear insights, this book is full of illustrations and text instructions. It worth the price.

It's a great book about character design. This book has a lot of information about the design aspect: line, shape, geometry, weight, rhythm.. and so on.

Best book about Character design I know!The drawings are nice, but all the text information is really great. I learned a lot from this book.

Like all Force books - the content and the book is amazing. And a great reference made even better if you follow their youtube channel or video courses on their website.AMAZING product.Like all books purchased on Amazon - it came bent and damaged. I don't think amazon is capable of delivery new books that appear new still upon arrival.