Drawing with the FORCE Method - Mike Mattesi - Proko
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Date: 2022-03-14
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Thar
Just my honest opinion, I like Stan's way of teaching in general but sometimes I feel it's not suitable for live sketches or croquis drawings. At least, whenever I follow his style, I end up with flat gestures. I don't think that's on Stan, that's on my lack of understanding of how to do gesture. But when I saw Mike's teaching method, something instantly clicked. I could let my knowledge of anatomy and shape flow naturally by knowing how FORCE stretches and compresses the body. It felt so fun and liberating. I watched his videos on YouTube and tried applying what I learned and INSTANTLY could see a shift in the dynamism of my work. Needless to say I bought his book and read through it. Very good stuff, he's an experienced teacher, you can tell that by his explanations in the book. So through Mike, I was able to appreciate Stan's anatomy lessons a lot more.
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Just my honest opinion, I like Stan's way of teaching in general but sometimes I feel it's not suitable for live sketches or croquis drawings. At least, whenever I follow his style, I end up with flat gestures. I don't think that's on Stan, that's on my lack of understanding of how to do gesture. But when I saw Mike's teaching method, something instantly clicked. I could let my knowledge of anatomy and shape flow naturally by knowing how FORCE stretches and compresses the body. It felt so fun and liberating. I watched his videos on YouTube and tried applying what I learned and INSTANTLY could see a shift in the dynamism of my work. Needless to say I bought his book and read through it. Very good stuff, he's an experienced teacher, you can tell that by his explanations in the book. So through Mike, I was able to appreciate Stan's anatomy lessons a lot more.
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Paul
Fantastic stuff. I never really think to much about measurement or proportions when I draw, if you focus on gesture, and the dynamism or 'force' in the pose, the measurements seem to find themselves, and your drawing has far more energy. You see and draw interrelated volumes rather than just shapes. You can easily correct an arm that's to big - and you will see it because you have mapped out the entirety of the pose already. Using force gives every drawing a sense of being grounded and believable and highlights the tension in the pose. Listening to how Mike thinks is the most important thing - because that teaches us how to observe more effectively - and it's all about seeing.
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Fantastic stuff. I never really think to much about measurement or proportions when I draw, if you focus on gesture, and the dynamism or 'force' in the pose, the measurements seem to find themselves, and your drawing has far more energy. You see and draw interrelated volumes rather than just shapes. You can easily correct an arm that's to big - and you will see it because you have mapped out the entirety of the pose already. Using force gives every drawing a sense of being grounded and believable and highlights the tension in the pose. Listening to how Mike thinks is the most important thing - because that teaches us how to observe more effectively - and it's all about seeing.
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Dahlia
Think of force as jenga. In jenga, you try to pick out the sticks that don-t hold the tower together. In translation, the body parts are the sticks and the pose is the tower. Therefore, it-s important to note what areas are holding the most gravity and which ones are not. You could even ask questions like -if her/his arm weren-t positioned there would this pose still hold? - It-s common sense but this concept works well for me.
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Think of force as jenga. In jenga, you try to pick out the sticks that don-t hold the tower together. In translation, the body parts are the sticks and the pose is the tower. Therefore, it-s important to note what areas are holding the most gravity and which ones are not. You could even ask questions like -if her/his arm weren-t positioned there would this pose still hold? - It-s common sense but this concept works well for me.
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Robert
FORCE (and proko) is the best thing the ever happened to my drawing. I went from struggling with gesture to drawing the way I always wanted to draw literally overnight. I think it's the most authentic way to draw the figure also. You really feel the drawing. ALSO Proko's paid videos on mannequinization helped me fill in a lot of stucture and detail that FORCE might have skimmed.
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FORCE (and proko) is the best thing the ever happened to my drawing. I went from struggling with gesture to drawing the way I always wanted to draw literally overnight. I think it's the most authentic way to draw the figure also. You really feel the drawing. ALSO Proko's paid videos on mannequinization helped me fill in a lot of stucture and detail that FORCE might have skimmed.
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olivia
I'm impressed! How many years of learning behing for it's seems so simple but so hard to obtain a reasonable result (I'm french, sorry for the faults. Your videos are so much better than the french ones. You're going straight to the essential: the force line, the gravity, an energy. Your explanations are so clear and your drawings are so beautiful. perfect I mean.
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I'm impressed! How many years of learning behing for it's seems so simple but so hard to obtain a reasonable result (I'm french, sorry for the faults. Your videos are so much better than the french ones. You're going straight to the essential: the force line, the gravity, an energy. Your explanations are so clear and your drawings are so beautiful. perfect I mean.
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Scruffy
The force method really helps be understand gesture and developing gesture while finding form. I've been struggling with gesture for the past several months. I like to combine The Proko gesture techniques with Force. This also helped me get over the fear of dissecting my form with lines by showing posterior shape. Thanks a lot for these videos!
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The force method really helps be understand gesture and developing gesture while finding form. I've been struggling with gesture for the past several months. I like to combine The Proko gesture techniques with Force. This also helped me get over the fear of dissecting my form with lines by showing posterior shape. Thanks a lot for these videos!
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Logan
I'd like to see him actually finish a drawing to see how it comes out because from what he presented here his point is solid but the execution is kind of sloppy. He talks about how being a female she can support that posture versus a male but yet he has her greatly weighted forward.
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I'd like to see him actually finish a drawing to see how it comes out because from what he presented here his point is solid but the execution is kind of sloppy. He talks about how being a female she can support that posture versus a male but yet he has her greatly weighted forward.
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Fabmedia
What this method really is what is called gestural drawing. His method just breaks down the idea of gesture drawing into a descriptive set of steps. It-s interesting to see him describe it with physics.
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What this method really is what is called gestural drawing. His method just breaks down the idea of gesture drawing into a descriptive set of steps. It-s interesting to see him describe it with physics.
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Bilal
The guy wrote hundreds of pages when his 'method' can be explained in a sentence. Think about deforming simple forms in your mind and avoid symmetrical lines. Don't waste your money folks.
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The guy wrote hundreds of pages when his 'method' can be explained in a sentence. Think about deforming simple forms in your mind and avoid symmetrical lines. Don't waste your money folks.
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BroadCastMe
Can anyone tell me what is the medium of drawing does mike uses in this video? Cant figure out what. it looks like a crayon yet its too shiny to be a crayon. Its like thick lead. -
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Can anyone tell me what is the medium of drawing does mike uses in this video? Cant figure out what. it looks like a crayon yet its too shiny to be a crayon. Its like thick lead. -
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