I want to thank Stan and his team for sharing FORCE here on Proko. It was a pleasure working with everyone at the studio and I love the quality level of the production. MORE FORCE videos are coming everyone. I hope they inspire you and help you learn how to draw with FORCE!
I'm really looking forward to other parts in this series. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I've owned Force for several years now, and have learned a lot from it, but this video was really helpful. I'm definitely a 'B' liner though. :p
I don't care who pays who. I agree with this comment. I appreciate this channel so much because of all the artists I get to learn about and from to improve my skills as an "artist" (which is a hard word for me to use about myself because I'm new to this but I'm getting the hang of it and don't feel like shitting on the hard work I put in to gain the progress I've made just because someone else might say "you're not good enough to be an artist"). Same with getting hung up on who gets paid for what. The fact that we get a serious education because of it is the important part. And this video is saying just that. Not to get hung up on details. Especially of they don't pertain to us and why we're here.
Really love his teaching style! He uses other metaphors to get you to understand the figure differently. Instead of using art terms, using other terms associated with something outside of art, helps the brain connect and understand the fundamentals a little differently, and more concretely.
I wonder why this video changed your mind. I think it just proves force is a word salad and totally useless. I really like proko videos, they are coherent and useful, but I'm so disappointed he promotes this force-mumbo-jumbo method on his channel.
Vedran Klemens it’s definitely hard to put words to. But the analogy he made of your pencil moving across the page like a racecar moving along a track, and the emphasis on hierarchy of forces in a pose, it started to make sense to me. Each line has a force to it. It implies a certain motion; one that can also be analogous to the motions you make as an artist putting those lines on the page. I think of it as a harmony between line and body. If you put several different curves down into a page, you could consider what each curve suggests to the viewer. How do those curves *feel* different? How could you use those feelings to enhance your drawings? It’s a very physical way of understanding lines and forms. I’m just an amateur but hope that is accurate and helps clarify why I found this video helpful!
I got to take a workshop from this guy at CTN last year, and MAN every time I see his work and listen to him explain it I get both so excited and confused. Like HOW DO I UNDERSTAND THIS, HOW do I DO THIS??? I'll be watching this video 50 more times, thank you.
As I’m watching this demo the concept of force in figure drawing really reminds me of the line of action in animation and the amount of well force that the body puts into doing something I really can’t wait to apply this to my own figures
Yes, some similarities. Line of action is simpler and abstract. FORCE really comes form how the anatomy works relative to gravity. Thanks for watching!
After almost 9 months of figure and portrait study, this video comes along and changes the way I see line work and rhythm . I cant afford your book right now sir, but when I can I'll be buying it
I'm completely chuffed at seeing these videos. I've been reading Mattesi's "force" book for most of the time I've been drawing, and seeing an HOUR of youtube videos by the author explaining and filling in some of the gaps in knowledge I had with the book is just fantastic. Seeing him act out the pose to contextualize what was being said helped a ton with the explanations he gave especially in this video.
This was an enjoyable lesson, I'm on the verge of having confident lines so just need to hang in there! The tip about line weight at 14:48 is very helpful! I had only learned to use line weight to represent distance, thickening lines as the object gets closer.
One thing I was taught was to draw several dots on a page and connect lines between them forcefully. My lines and therefore art has improved exponentially doing this excercise.
@@VedranKlemens Super sparknotes version: Its a blend of gesture and shape. It combines a few methods animators use. Simply put you would use basic action lines but you would simplify action using curves. For every curve you have an accompanying straight. And you would flow it into another curve.
This is gold. I always wind up saving these videos. I learn SO MUCH from them. Thank you Mike, for showing me your way of seeing things. I come from a medical background so this really hit home to me between anatomy and physiology and the big one....kinesiology and physics. This helped me a lot and I can't wait to put it to use. I'm very new at this but due to my background in the human body, I have found gesture drawing comes very easy to me. Doesn't mean I don't need a whole lot of practice with drawing the flowing lines. That's the part I need to work on. I can be the "scared" line but have been working with shading with Bic pen and the light touch and long lines and directions and curves that takes. It has made a world of difference. My lines are longer and my curves aren't as difficult. But they need a lot more practice. Thank you again.
This is a very strong lecture. the connection between Physics and Drawing. The Movement. The Expression. As being part of life. Not freezing life on your paper. Very good video.
Thank you so much for this series and for captioning it! Mike is one of my favorites and most of his videos aren’t captioned. So happy to have access to what he’s saying!!
I really appreciate and love this channel for the various art aids because I'm a self-taught "wannabe" illustrator and there's no art school at my state.
How does this channel not have 10 bazillion subscribers yet? The content is absolutely amazing. I loved the hotwheels explanation... Im still chuckling
Incredibly rusty animation student here, awesome video. I couldn't attend regular drawing sessions for over a year due to the pandemic so I'm trying to get back the progress I missed out on, this channel is helping me so much.
I was actually just doing some sketches while reading one of the force books. I definitely recommend getting all of them if you can. Very informative on how to simplify and focus on the bigger concepts instead of just focusing on details. I can say, however, as a beginner I definitely interpreted how to use the advice in the wrong way by essentially throwing out the need to understand anatomy. For a while I made lots of scribbly drawings without any real fundamental knowledge on human anatomy. The Force was there, but the knowledge of what I was applying it to wasn't there. Fortunately, there is also a Force Anatomy book that made me realize you still need to know anatomy!
USE THE FORCE- I am just finding this - This is hands down the best art tutorial channel in the multiverse- I stayed up taking notes on How to shade a drawing
This is so brilliant... when I don't have a model or can't make sense of what I need to draw I adopt the pose myself... I then connect to the centre of the "emotion" in the pose - what is the intention and drive or FORCE behind the gesture... and then it is easy because it is imprinted in my mind and can be translated to the drawing. Its a kind of yoga or gestalt! Ask yourself where the force is coming from... it cold construed as a centre of gravity... by observation you can see where most people have their centre of "gravity" and it is rarely the solar plexus! e.g a person struggling to express themselves and cowed by authority will have this centre in their neck and shoulders as a restriction and there will be little force but definitely diminished presence in the rest of their body... a person with authority in their world will present from the chest etc etc Someone with dogged inflexible adherence to something might well present from their ankles... and so on! Any drawing must capture the standing wave of a moment; nothing is still it is all in motion but we aim to capture the moving wave in a phase where it can be perceived as still...OH and one ;last thing... the force is electromagnetic which flows in coils or spirals!
This feels like it relates a lot to the technique of line of action, basically trying to find the part of the body that's pushing somewhere or where the energy of the art is going to.
Feels like another piece of the puzzle I needed in gesture drawing. Lost my excitement with gesture and right now I feel ready to pick up a pencil again!
I was reading the "Force" book. I wanted to see if there was some examples on youtube and I just fond with this incredible explanation by the author. Thank you for this great video!!!
Ive always loved Mike's instruction and his Force drawing was highly influential for me when i was in art school... I just got Force: Character Design from Life Drawing which I hadn't read and LOVE that one too... great stuff!
@@yasserrek9681 dude, I recently bought his anatomy course and I gotta ya, I'm loving it and hating it at the same time lol. It'll keep me busy for the rest of the year :)
I have just started drawing and I serious wonder me being a professional artist will ever be happening or not, it just that far from me. And thus I am so grateful to skillful masters who shares what they have gained through those far far trip. Its true gold to me😢😢
Hi guys! this is a pleasure just to watch! what's Mike drawing with? is it a graphite block? i'd be grateful if you talk about the material, pens, papers, etc. especially for beginners - if that matters! lots of love, x
Really nice video, thank you! I will probably use it as a teaching tool. But to be fair to the entire history of art; this simply teaches good form, which has been practiced since the beginning of painting (Lascaux, the Greeks, Romans, etc). Look at Matisse (especially 1913-1917), Hans Hofmann's students drawings, or anything from de Kooning for more modern or contemporary examples.
For more examples of Mike’s Force Method check out this video - ruclips.net/video/JtaBjtAGsk0/видео.html
Love you sir nice art
Congratiulations to you, for finding such award-winning artists, and featuring them with pride & grace !
I want to thank Stan and his team for sharing FORCE here on Proko. It was a pleasure working with everyone at the studio and I love the quality level of the production. MORE FORCE videos are coming everyone. I hope they inspire you and help you learn how to draw with FORCE!
Always
So glad you're getting some additional exposure on Proko, Mike, you deserve it!
Love your books, mister! You're an excellent teacher and artist!
I'm really looking forward to other parts in this series. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I've owned Force for several years now, and have learned a lot from it, but this video was really helpful.
I'm definitely a 'B' liner though. :p
Thanks for coming here to show us, love you instruction, it helps me alot
All this talk of smashing through hips and jamming those bones really gets me in the mood _to draw_
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Ahan. Sure. 🤣
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😂😂😂
"Saturday Night's Alright"
You know sh*t gets real when an artist brings out a Hot Wheels car to illustrate a point
Specially if the hot wheels is a Lambo Countach !
Why did I laugh so hard at this 😂
Artists: "Art is a serious profession that demands respect"
Also artists: 12:33
lol
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😂😂
H.AHAHAHA
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the proko channel is truly a goldmine
I love the fact that you give the opportunity to other artists to make art on you channel. If it wasn't for you I would have never known them
they pay him for
@@joshtr4645 more like he pays them to come and share their skills
@@damianogiolitti3416 No. Other astists actually sponsor Proko, which is actually great.
i wonder which way it is now, i don‘t care who pays who. It’s still a fair business and i like it that we get access to it.
I don't care who pays who. I agree with this comment. I appreciate this channel so much because of all the artists I get to learn about and from to improve my skills as an "artist" (which is a hard word for me to use about myself because I'm new to this but I'm getting the hang of it and don't feel like shitting on the hard work I put in to gain the progress I've made just because someone else might say "you're not good enough to be an artist"). Same with getting hung up on who gets paid for what. The fact that we get a serious education because of it is the important part. And this video is saying just that. Not to get hung up on details. Especially of they don't pertain to us and why we're here.
Really love his teaching style! He uses other metaphors to get you to understand the figure differently. Instead of using art terms, using other terms associated with something outside of art, helps the brain connect and understand the fundamentals a little differently, and more concretely.
Always thought “force” was a poorly defined concept, turns out I just didn’t have someone explain it to me as well as this guy!
Thanks for saying that Gabe. As its messenger, I have heard that issue. Happy to hear this video has cleared things up for you.
Yeah It was definitely well-explained here.
May the force be with you
I wonder why this video changed your mind. I think it just proves force is a word salad and totally useless. I really like proko videos, they are coherent and useful, but I'm so disappointed he promotes this force-mumbo-jumbo method on his channel.
Vedran Klemens it’s definitely hard to put words to. But the analogy he made of your pencil moving across the page like a racecar moving along a track, and the emphasis on hierarchy of forces in a pose, it started to make sense to me.
Each line has a force to it. It implies a certain motion; one that can also be analogous to the motions you make as an artist putting those lines on the page. I think of it as a harmony between line and body.
If you put several different curves down into a page, you could consider what each curve suggests to the viewer. How do those curves *feel* different? How could you use those feelings to enhance your drawings?
It’s a very physical way of understanding lines and forms. I’m just an amateur but hope that is accurate and helps clarify why I found this video helpful!
LOVE the Car Racing sound Fx ! :) Great technique and even better communication style . Thank you so much for this tutorial.
12:23 What I was doing in art school instead of actually learning to draw.
I got to take a workshop from this guy at CTN last year, and MAN every time I see his work and listen to him explain it I get both so excited and confused. Like HOW DO I UNDERSTAND THIS, HOW do I DO THIS??? I'll be watching this video 50 more times, thank you.
Thanks for attending the CTN workshops!
As I’m watching this demo the concept of force in figure drawing really reminds me of the line of action in animation and the amount of well force that the body puts into doing something I really can’t wait to apply this to my own figures
Walt Stanchfield's notes about gesture drawing for animation are also a very useful read.
Yes, some similarities. Line of action is simpler and abstract. FORCE really comes form how the anatomy works relative to gravity. Thanks for watching!
Same! It makes sense I guess, drawing is just taking one frame of an animation, especially in drawing gestures
After almost 9 months of figure and portrait study, this video comes along and changes the way I see line work and rhythm . I cant afford your book right now sir, but when I can I'll be buying it
I'm completely chuffed at seeing these videos. I've been reading Mattesi's "force" book for most of the time I've been drawing, and seeing an HOUR of youtube videos by the author explaining and filling in some of the gaps in knowledge I had with the book is just fantastic. Seeing him act out the pose to contextualize what was being said helped a ton with the explanations he gave especially in this video.
This was an enjoyable lesson, I'm on the verge of having confident lines so just need to hang in there!
The tip about line weight at 14:48 is very helpful! I had only learned to use line weight to represent distance, thickening lines as the object gets closer.
One thing I was taught was to draw several dots on a page and connect lines between them forcefully. My lines and therefore art has improved exponentially doing this excercise.
I love the FORCE method. I didn't understand how to do gesture and rythem until i got his books and watched his videos.
hm, what exactly is the force method? After watching several videos I still don't get it... It's incoherent and pretentious
@@VedranKlemens Super sparknotes version: Its a blend of gesture and shape. It combines a few methods animators use. Simply put you would use basic action lines but you would simplify action using curves. For every curve you have an accompanying straight. And you would flow it into another curve.
This is gold. I always wind up saving these videos. I learn SO MUCH from them. Thank you Mike, for showing me your way of seeing things. I come from a medical background so this really hit home to me between anatomy and physiology and the big one....kinesiology and physics. This helped me a lot and I can't wait to put it to use. I'm very new at this but due to my background in the human body, I have found gesture drawing comes very easy to me. Doesn't mean I don't need a whole lot of practice with drawing the flowing lines. That's the part I need to work on. I can be the "scared" line but have been working with shading with Bic pen and the light touch and long lines and directions and curves that takes. It has made a world of difference. My lines are longer and my curves aren't as difficult. But they need a lot more practice. Thank you again.
Mike's force books have totally changed my approach to drawing for the better!
Great technique, my figure drawings improved so much with seeing Force. Thank you
This was really great, it hit home when you compared the force of the leading edge to driving on a mountain road..
Mike went to Poland some years ago, and I had the awesome privilege to get into that class. Hands down the best teacher I had in my life
This is a very strong lecture. the connection between Physics and Drawing. The Movement. The Expression. As being part of life. Not freezing life on your paper. Very good video.
My favorite method to gesture drawing. Mike Matessi is a great teacher!
Thank you so much for this series and for captioning it! Mike is one of my favorites and most of his videos aren’t captioned. So happy to have access to what he’s saying!!
Michael Mattesi should end his video with "may the force be with you"
😆😆😆👍🏼
Get out. XD
I really appreciate and love this channel for the various art aids because I'm a self-taught "wannabe" illustrator and there's no art school at my state.
How does this channel not have 10 bazillion subscribers yet? The content is absolutely amazing. I loved the hotwheels explanation... Im still chuckling
i love this force method, took me a bunch more tries but it really helped me show movement better and helped me with body proportions
Incredibly rusty animation student here, awesome video. I couldn't attend regular drawing sessions for over a year due to the pandemic so I'm trying to get back the progress I missed out on, this channel is helping me so much.
12:22 Mike Mattesi explains Initial D
Awesome this presentation will make anyone to like drawing, nice master's video!!👍
Thanks guys for that. Mike is absolutely amazing.
12:19 thats the best description of gesture drawing i ever saw hihi
I was actually just doing some sketches while reading one of the force books. I definitely recommend getting all of them if you can. Very informative on how to simplify and focus on the bigger concepts instead of just focusing on details. I can say, however, as a beginner I definitely interpreted how to use the advice in the wrong way by essentially throwing out the need to understand anatomy. For a while I made lots of scribbly drawings without any real fundamental knowledge on human anatomy. The Force was there, but the knowledge of what I was applying it to wasn't there. Fortunately, there is also a Force Anatomy book that made me realize you still need to know anatomy!
cannot believe this is free of charge!! thank you!!
USE THE FORCE- I am just finding this - This is hands down the best art tutorial channel in the multiverse- I stayed up taking notes on How to shade a drawing
It's the best description of force
great video, this was super helpful to my gesture drawing!
Love this video ❤❤❤. Thank u so much for a better understanding of gesture. I was having hard time how start my sketch. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
I was reading the force book but seeing this I started to actually understand whats the book about !
Thank you Mike and Proko for the lessons.
I love mike's way of teaching! Can't wait for the next one!
def my favorite proko guest teacher
Hey it was a pleasure meeting you in person! What a lovely workshop you have! Take care!
"I really wanna feel that hip..." I can relate
Time and force, thank you
The hot wheels part was the cutest thing ever. :D really made the start of my day. the explanation is so great, thank you very much :)
I took Mike’s force course last summer. It was really good! I’d recommend it.
I love Mikes DrawinG Style - supernice expression ! Studying these Technique now 🖍🖍🖍 Thankyou for sharing Stan. 🧡
This is so brilliant... when I don't have a model or can't make sense of what I need to draw I adopt the pose myself... I then connect to the centre of the "emotion" in the pose - what is the intention and drive or FORCE behind the gesture... and then it is easy because it is imprinted in my mind and can be translated to the drawing. Its a kind of yoga or gestalt! Ask yourself where the force is coming from... it cold construed as a centre of gravity... by observation you can see where most people have their centre of "gravity" and it is rarely the solar plexus! e.g a person struggling to express themselves and cowed by authority will have this centre in their neck and shoulders as a restriction and there will be little force but definitely diminished presence in the rest of their body... a person with authority in their world will present from the chest etc etc Someone with dogged inflexible adherence to something might well present from their ankles... and so on! Any drawing must capture the standing wave of a moment; nothing is still it is all in motion but we aim to capture the moving wave in a phase where it can be perceived as still...OH and one ;last thing... the force is electromagnetic which flows in coils or spirals!
Absolute wizard I’ve learned so much in this video!
This feels like it relates a lot to the technique of line of action, basically trying to find the part of the body that's pushing somewhere or where the energy of the art is going to.
This is gold! Could watch this stuff all day.
that little car sketch he did really brightened my day
This was so much fun to watch. Thank you, guys.
That's a beautiful line
You give me a force. THX!
Very helpful to have this viewpoint when gesture drawing!
Fantastic video. It’s so good to have someone articulating how to draw people like still life
I like this man.
Thank you so much Mike, you're so inspiring! And thanks to Proko too.
Feels like another piece of the puzzle I needed in gesture drawing. Lost my excitement with gesture and right now I feel ready to pick up a pencil again!
This is a good tutorial he explained everything he was doing so clearly and easily while drawing. Thank you!
I was reading the "Force" book. I wanted to see if there was some examples on youtube and I just fond with this incredible explanation by the author. Thank you for this great video!!!
Fantastic dynamic explanation 👍⭐️👍
"Pounding into it"
"I really wanna feel that hip"
"Smash into her hip"
Username checks out
@@cthzierp5830 lol
Exactly what i was abt to comment
"the ball of her feet is very exciting"
I was looking for this comment.
Ive always loved Mike's instruction and his Force drawing was highly influential for me when i was in art school... I just got Force: Character Design from Life Drawing which I hadn't read and LOVE that one too... great stuff!
Great content, we are so blessed to have such good quality information.Thank you!
Loved this video. It's really helping me on my path to understand rhythm.
wow I drew along with him and learned a lot thank you!!! ❤️
12:22 ma fav part xD
Really love your Philosophy!!!!
Incredible video, this has been super helpfull I never thought about the force that my lines apply!
Wounderful ,so helpful for artlovers and art practitioners
Beautiful thing about art and drawing... endless amount of knowledge is there for the taking!!!!
Great work, Mr. Mike!! New Sub
Peferct timing! I just bought one of the two FORCE books for my birthday, can't wait to learn more with these too!
I had a dream of meeting proko and getting a 101 lesson with him in my house , I'm watching too many proko videos 😂
A 101 lesson on anatomy?😏
@@camilopachon9845 Strangely it was a guitar lesson😂
I wish id get a 101 anatomy lessons with him , though im sure he'd say something like "learn form and gesture first".
@@yasserrek9681 dude, I recently bought his anatomy course and I gotta ya, I'm loving it and hating it at the same time lol. It'll keep me busy for the rest of the year :)
@@camilopachon9845 Sadly i can't buy anything online , all i can do is watch his free vids on ytb and try to learn a little. Best of luck for you !
Really cool stuff i never understood rhythms that we'll before
I have just started drawing and I serious wonder me being a professional artist will ever be happening or not, it just that far from me. And thus I am so grateful to skillful masters who shares what they have gained through those far far trip. Its true gold to me😢😢
Mastering the bean is so freakin awesome!! Thanks a much Proko!!
this is the kind of quality content I subscribed for
What a great lesson and demo!
Really well explained and digestible, thanks for sharing! 😊
This video is just what I needed.
Brilliant tutorial, thanks.
very helpful and inspirational‼ thank you‼
Day 342 of practicing force:
I can finally hear the car engine sound in my head
Great. I wish to practice. I enjoy the music in your force drawing.
Hi guys! this is a pleasure just to watch! what's Mike drawing with? is it a graphite block? i'd be grateful if you talk about the material, pens, papers, etc. especially for beginners - if that matters! lots of love, x
Brilliant upload.
Thank for this post sir
Thanks for tutorial👍
Very good, gesture is important.
I came here flying, just what I needed OMG!
Thanks, excellent!
this is sooooo helpful. thank you!
the ball of the foot is REALLY exciting
omg proko really know whos the right guy for the job
Genial!!!!!!! Maravilloso!!!! Gracias!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️
This man is a philosopher
Really nice video, thank you! I will probably use it as a teaching tool. But to be fair to the entire history of art; this simply teaches good form, which has been practiced since the beginning of painting (Lascaux, the Greeks, Romans, etc). Look at Matisse (especially 1913-1917), Hans Hofmann's students drawings, or anything from de Kooning for more modern or contemporary examples.