Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for AnimatorsForce: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators Capture the force in your life drawing subjects with this practical guide to dynamic drawing techniques - packed with superb, powerfully drawn examples that show you how to: * Bring your work to life with rhythmic drawing techniques * Create appealing and dynamic poses in your drawings * Experience the figure's energy in three dimensional space * Use the asymmetry of straight and curved lines to clarify the direction of force in the body * Build on your foundational anatomy and figure drawing skills to animate your drawings *Apply the theory of force to your on-location and animal drawing observations Whether you are an animator, comic book artist, illustrator or fine arts' student you'll learn to use rhythm, shape, and line to bring out the life in any subject while Mike Mattesi's infectious enthusiasm will have you reaching for your pencils! Mike Mattesi is the owner and founder of Entertainment Art Academy (www.enterartacad.com) based in Southern California. He has been a professional production artist and instructor for the last fifteen years with clients including Disney, Marvel Comics, Hasbro Toys, ABC, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, DreamWorks and Nickelodeon. Audience level: Intermediate to advanced |
Contents
Seeing Life The book will begin with learning force and how it creates rhythm and balance in the body The roller coaster of force will be our bridge... | 1 |
Forceful Form This will talk about form and how to explain it through force This chapter will touch upon perspective one two three and four points ... | 54 |
Forceful Shape Shape is what will evolve from the combination of force and form and will be the topic of this chapter Here we will see how entire s... | 97 |
Clothing This chapter will start with the texture of line Then I will talk about the clothed figure We will see forces affect on clothing Also we will lea... | 141 |
On Location Reportage This chapter is about drawing on location We go out into the world and people watch Lets enjoy the wide variety of charact... | 169 |
Animals This chapter is about drawing animals We start with comparing their anatomies to ours in order to liberate ourselves from anatomical proble... | 193 |
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Common terms and phrases
anatomy angles animals applied force artist aware balance body’s bottom Bronx Zoo buttocks Chapter close clothes concept Contrapposto Dean Cornwell depth describe force directional force Disney dog’s drawing by Mike drawing shows drawing the model energy example experience feel feet figure figure’s foot force and form forceful form forceful shape foreshortening four-point perspective Frank Frazetta front Gibson Girl gives gravity hand hard Heinrich Kley Hellboy human J.C. Leyendecker knee leading edge left arm Leroy Neiman Leyendecker line of balance Look main idea man’s Mike D Mike Roth model’s left moments move neck Notice opinion overlap Pay attention plantigrade pose pose’s push pyramid relationship road of rhythm roller coaster side silhouette soft story straight to curve stretch structure surface lines sweep tell texture thumbnail torso understand unguligrade upper back upper body vertical western lowland gorilla wraps wrinkles wrist