How to Create a Superhero With PowerPoint
Like a bird, like a plane, it's PowerPoint, the Microsoft Office Suite software providing a stage for your superhero drawing artwork. Although PowerPoint is not created to be a drawing program -- and in fact offers only one crude tool to draw with -- you don't need superpowers to create a workaround and make your own superhero. PowerPoint's drawing tool may be hidden among its other shape-drawing features, but it offers a way to design a basic man or woman of steel in a pinch.
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Instructions
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Open Microsoft PowerPoint. Click once on the "Click to add title" box and press the "Delete" key. Click once on the "Click to add subtitle" box and press the "Delete" key. This is optional, as these boxes don't appear on the final presentation, but doing this clears up your drawing space.
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Click the "Insert" tab. Click the "Shapes" button below the tab. Click the "Scribble" tool, which looks like a squiggled line at the end of the "Line" section. Note the cursor turns into a pencil icon.
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Position the cursor at the top of the slide, click and hold down the left mouse button and draw the superhero's head. Release the left mouse button.
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Position the cursor below the head and draw the superhero's body, arms and legs.
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Draw the superhero's accessories, including cape, boots, chest shield, arm bands and eye mask.
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Draw facial features and hair.
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Click the superhero's head, which opens the orange "Drawing Tools" tab at the top of the screen. Click the "Shape Outline" button and choose a new color for the head outline, as PowerPoint defaults to blue. Repeat for all of the other parts of the superhero's outline.
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Click the main body/torso of the superhero. Click the "Shape Fill" button on the ribbon. Choose a color for the superhero, such as Incredible Hulk green. The color fills in. Repeat to fill in other parts of the drawing as preferred.
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Add an accessory for your superhero without having to draw it by clicking the "Insert" tab's "Clip Art" button. Type a term such as "phone booth," "spider web" or "green ring" into the "Search for" box. The less specific you are, the more results you'll receive. Click the "Go" button. Scroll through the results and double-click an item or items to add it to the superhero's slide. Add multiple items to give your superhero a complete backdrop or just one or two things to complete the image. This step is optional.
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Click the "File" tab. Select "Save As." Type a name for the superhero drawing and click the "Save" button.
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Tips & Warnings
When using the PowerPoint "Scribble" tool, the only real drawing feature in PowerPoint, every time you release the left mouse button -- which will happen each time you complete a piece of the drawing -- PowerPoint thinks you're finished and surrounds that part of the picture with a box. This means that for every part of the superhero, from head to body to cape, you'll have separate pieces of the drawing. The boxes don't appear on the slide or the final product, but just keep this in mind, as it is quite a different experience from drawing with a pen or crayon.
To create a superhero in PowerPoint more quickly, use the clip art feature as described above. Type "superhero" into the search box and see what returns.
