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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 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.

Force: Character Design from Life Drawing: Character Design from Life Drawing

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