Force: Character Design from Life Drawing

Michael Mattesi has authored several FORCE books, published in numerous languages, utilized around the world to inspire and educate artists on the concept of FORCE. He has instructed FORCE Drawing for over twenty years and inspired thousands of artists. Simultaneously, Michael has been contributing his skills as a professional artist on numerous award-winning projects in varied capacities and has collaborated with Pixar, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Walt Disney Consumer Products, Marvel Comics, Hasbro Toys, ABC, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, DreamWorks/PDI, Zynga, The School of Visual Arts, Beijing University, Art Center, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, San Jose State University, The Academy of Art University, Nickelodeon, LeapFrog and many others. Michael’s students occupy all fields of the art industry and have themselves gained prestige for their abilities. Michael lives in northern California with his wife and two daughters. Visit him at: DrawingFORCE.com and connect with Michael on Facebook at: DrawingFORCE.com with Mike Mattesi or email him directly: mike@drawingforce.com

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