Hello, my name is David Lamplugh, and I work for Asel Art Supply, in Austin, Texas. I'm here today to answer questions about how to draw comic book characters. Now, we're going to start with the basic skeleton, and he's heroic. I'm going to get the basic shapes in here. Most superheroes have that kind of, it's a lot of right angles and a lot of flat, muscular chests; that type of stuff. You're projecting strength of the hero. Actionman, I think, is going to have gloves. I haven't really decided on details yet. What has what has actionman got? He's got a star somewhere on his uniform maybe, or speed wings, or something like that. You can decide on these things as you go along, or you can kind of list well, actionman has to have this first off, you know, so you just kind of build. He's a man of action. I'm going to have him have a clipboard as a totem and talisman, cause' he's getting things done and making efficiency his priority. Not a particularly friendly superhero. But, he does it at blazing speed so I'm going to make wings or winglike objects on his gloves. You can tighten up anatomy later. You're workin' on design right now. Big belt buckle says "A" on it. A helmet sometimes makes things easier. I'm going to make it a kind of centurion helmet to a certain degree; maybe a little like Marvin the Martian. Now, your face on there, facial features; I think I will make kind of, again, made of kind of blocky shapes and getting a determined chin, relatively thin lips. Superheroes usually have square jaws and relatively thick necks. So, you kind of build a superhero like you would a product. You kind of find a logo, and you kind of find things that he's going to carry, things that he's going to care about, and kind of put them all together in lots of sketches like this. I mean, this is not the only one you would do to design a superhero. You'd do hundreds of sketches of him in different situations. That's how you build character. And that is a little bit about how to draw comic book characters.
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