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Framed Perspective Vol. 2: Technical Drawing for Shadows, Volume, and Characters Paperback – November 30, 2016

by Marcos Mateu-Mestre (Author, Artist)
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Building on the foundation established with the first book in the series, Framed Perspective 2 guides artists through the challenging tasks of projecting shadows in proper perspective on a variety of environments and working with characters in perspective set in particular situation or setting. Author and artist Marcos Mateu-Mestre reveals the many techniques and mechanics he has used to become proficient in such endeavors, including using anatomy, shadows, and clothing folds to define the shape and volume of characters within an environment. He also shares how to effectively observe a model or object to extract the right amount of information to then translate it into an impactful graphic and visual image, the goal of every visual storyteller.
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Born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Marcos Mateu-Mestre is a visual concept, traditional animation layout, and graphic novel artist with 25 years of experience in feature animation. Some of his film credits include Balto, The Prince of Egypt, Asterix and the Vikings, Surf’s Up, and How to Train your Dragon 2. His work in film, primarily for DreamWorks Animation and Sony Pictures Animation, has been focused on both the design and cinematic aspects of frame composition, lighting, and visual continuity of many key animation sequences, experience he summed up in his international best-selling book Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers. In addition to his work in film, he has taught drawing, illustration, and visual storytelling techniques for 12 years and been a member of several international film festivals. Mateu-Mestre currently lives in Los Angeles.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Design Studio Press (November 30, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 132 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1624650325
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1624650321
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.79 x 10.98 inches
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Born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Marcos Mateu-Mestre is a visual concept, traditional animation layout, and graphic novel artist with 25 years of experience in feature animation. Some of his film credits include Balto, The Prince of Egypt, Asterix and the Vikings, Surf’s Up, and How to Train your Dragon 2. His work in film, primarily for DreamWorks Animation and Sony Pictures Animation, has been focused on both the design and cinematic composition, lighting, and visual continuity of many key animation sequences, experience he summed up in his international best-selling book Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers. In addition to his work in film, he has taught drawing, illustration, and visual storytelling techniques for 12 years and been a member of several international film festivals. Mateu-Mestre currently lives in Los Angeles.

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DS Illustration
5.0 out of 5 stars Advanced, but amazing!
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2016
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I've been a fan of Marcos Mateu-Mestre's work ever since discovering 'Framed Ink', which quickly became one of my most recommended art books. I'm happy to say, these new volumes live up to every bit of my expectations.

Framed Perspective Volume 2 picks up where Volume 1 leaves off. Primarily, it focuses on how light and shadow fall on objects in perspective. Admittedly, this can get pretty advanced at times (ie. how long is the shadow from a steeple across a staggered roof?), but the resource of information is invaluable.

For me, the highlight of the book (and the majority of it's focus), is how Marcos describes and deconstructs the human form into simple geometric shapes so that you can apply the very same lighting principals to lighting the human figure. Aside from a few notable exceptions (ie. Burne Hogarth's Dynamic Lighting), I can think of VERY few other books that delve into the subject of creating accurate lighting from imagination.

Aside from the wonderful cache of information in this book, much like Framed Ink, it is chock full of beautiful drawings that are sure to impress any artist. I think this book would be a great value at even double the cover price.
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JJ
5.0 out of 5 stars I f**** love this book
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2023
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dude! you are such a a great teacher ! you break down the process so well. I'm super excited to learn from this book !!
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David Campbell
5.0 out of 5 stars Profound Yet Simple
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2018
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After a long hiatus from painting and drawing, I resumed using an old canvas that had stalled out in the early stages of its 4th repainting. Rounding up all my old brushes, tubes of acrylics, inks and dyes that hadn't dried out, I set to work limbering up by reworking a human figure in it. It was a relearning experience but what I learned first off after hours of struggle is that a figure constructed on a flawed foundation can't be "fixed". With great reluctance, I took medium gray acrylic and removed the figure entirely. Starting anew with another figure, the second thing I learned was just how much I'd forgotten about figure invention. Upon reaching another insoluble problem, I dug out my tattered copy of Burne Hogarth's Dynamic Anatomy and its followup Dynamic figure Drawing, that I'd stumbled upon accidentally in the Berkeley University bookstore while stationed in California. Encountering Hogarth's method of figure invention and placing that figure in motion was one of those life changing events. Studying his methods on my own and practicing them brought about a quantum leap in my art education exceeding even college level courses I took when I began formal art instruction. I never understood why Hogarth was not used as a standard text in any of the figure drawing classes I'd ever taken until I came to understand there was a distinct bias against illustrators among the fine art instructors I'd met. But that was an era when representational art in general and narrative art in particular was at its lowest ebb in esteem. This was ironic as my motivation for developing my artistic skill was to complement my writing. This was just prior to the graphic novel coming into its own, so perhaps it was bad timing. One bright exception was my first water media instructor, who though a dedicated abstract expressionist at the time had been an illustrator prior to WWII. When he asked us our motivations for studying art and I gave mine, his face lit up as he exclaimed: "That's fantastic! Now you'll be able to work both sides of the street, so to speak." And eventually I was, hand illustrating articles for a newspaper my wife published. However the deadlines proved horrifically short and my skills declined from rushed work. With the ready availablity of images from the internet I ceased hand illustrating altogether.

But I found even Burne Hogarth could not get me back up to my former level at the rate I desired. And that was when I stumbled upon Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Perspective 2 here on Amazon while searching for fine line water soluble pens. Just glancing at the reviews and excerpts made me realize this was precisely what I needed. So I ordered it at once. Skimming it quickly the moment it arrived (in record time), I saw that Marcos had taken Hogarth to the next level. Though I am still studying his lessons, some of the most important were imparted almost instantly. If it looks right, even if it's wrong, it's right. If if looks wrong, even though it's right, it's wrong. To be believable, a figure in space and motion must be considered as a whole. A sense of life and vitality can never be imparted to a frankenstein assemblage of parts. And lastly the artist must constantly be aware of volume in space and the invisible flow of kinetic energy through it. These were probably things I'd already known at one point but it took Marcos to provide an invaluable graphic reminder. I think part of Marco's genius is his ability to convey complex information in easily understood terms and illustrations; the mark of a master teacher. It is even more remarkable that he is able to do this in such slim books at such a low price. An encyclopedia's worth of information distilled into slender paperbound books for far less than you pay for a lot of fat hardbound books containing a fraction of the useful data. I received Framed Perspective 1 for a birthday present and even though a glance at its contents seems as intimidating as a course in quantum physics, I know from Framed Perspective 2 it is within my grasp. I just ordered Framed Ink and have no doubt I will have a collection of everything he's published before long. Now to put his wisdom into practice!
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Edgar Fematt
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for the intermediate and Above.
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2017
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Great and well set tricks for perspective, not only easy to pick up for getting hard angles down but included bonus in lighting.(Something many books skip out on in being to simple or not good) Shadows in ink and light use is super great and similar to Life drawing examples. Even tips to how to change atmosphere of image depending on light logic use on whole art piece.

I hope the author does a light logic book/Inking, its that good in examples he does.

A great book paired with

Pen and Ink Drawing a Simple Guide by Dunn (Intermediate/Advanced)

The technical Pen. (Advanced)

Rendering In Pen and Ink (Advanced, built like college text book. History lessons/Examples)
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Sach
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic reference book for the beginner all the way to the professional!
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2021
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Great resource book for artist of all degrees. Well explained, and simple guides that don't overcomplicate things. I also loved how this book even included tutorials on inking and shadows as well. I look forward to picking up framed ink as well!
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Steamphro Comics
4.0 out of 5 stars For the Technical Art Lover In you
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2019
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This is definitely a book for technical artist wanting to take their drawing to the next level.This book has changed my character art and my understanding on how to properly light them in my scene. If you love highly detailed and rendered drawing this book is for you. I rate this book as intermediate to advanced level drawing and reading
If you are new to drawing or have very little character art in your toolbox then I suggest Getting the book How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way and Drawing Cutting Edge Comics.
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Keith D. Aguilar
5.0 out of 5 stars All of these Framed art books are amazing!
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2021
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I have been doing art for the better part of 30 years and I have been an art instructor for over 15. I'm always looking for great books to reference or to take an aspect of a book and make it into a lesson plan. These have, by far, been some of the best books that I have added to my collection.

You might mistakenly pass these off as comic book art instruction books but you would be sadly mistaken. These are great books for any type of illustrator out there, young or old.
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Highly Recommend
5.0 out of 5 stars Great educational tool
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2022
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Good entry in the series for those learning to draw in perspective.
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John
5.0 out of 5 stars Es perfecto.
Reviewed in Mexico on October 4, 2023
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Simplemente genial, para dibujo, pintura e ilustración.
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Eadwig
5.0 out of 5 stars If you are serious about drawing.
Reviewed in Canada on April 21, 2023
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Framed Perspective Vol.2: Technical Perspective for Shadows, Volume and Characters is the necessary continuation of Framed Perspective Vol.1: Technical Perspective and Visual Storytelling.
It is in this second volume where Marcos Mateu-Mestre covers more advanced perspective aspects such as: shadows, characters, clothing and the effects they have on each other.
Both books will give you the knowledge to take your drawing to an advanced level.
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Daniel
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book but bad delivery packing for this too!
Reviewed in Germany on May 7, 2024
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I purchased both Framed Perspective 1 and 2 both books are full of details but the delivery was poor packaged!
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e.p.jennings
5.0 out of 5 stars awesome tutorial
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2021
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follow up to vol 1 and even better...all his books are top notch and great reference material
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Felix C
5.0 out of 5 stars Extra!
Reviewed in France on September 8, 2020
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Excellent livre très complet, fait par un vrai pro. (Contrairement à certains livres réalisés par des artistes ratés)
Riche en exemples, dessins de l'auteur et expliqué de façon ludique et précise. Pour aller loin en dessin.
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