Force: Character Design from Life Drawing

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.

Mike Mattesi shows animators and comic book artists how to use life drawing models as an inspiration for characters that audiences can relate to. He then encourages them to build on this to develop and 'PUSH' their character designs to new heights of dramatic and visual impact with universal principles that can be adapted to meet specific project needs.

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