How to Draw Comic Book Characters

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jay French at jayfrenchstudios.com and I'm going to teach you how to draw comic book characters. Okay, so there's a lot of comic book characters so we're going to pick one. I'll do one of my favorites here, Spiderman. This also one of the easier ones, till you get to the details, because you don't have to draw a face. And of course in comic book characters, you want dynamics. Dynamics in the positioning and in the details. So we're going to do an, doing a leap and his hands together as he's swinging. This is chest, stomach, muscles will define in a second here. And have him doing that classic Spiderman, sort of crouch leap, ready to swing into the next web. So, now Spiderman you get of course the big eyes, which are angled inward and you generally want little more point to the outside, like that or less to the inside. The tops, doing classic Spiderman, is an angle like this, it's going to curve in the middle on that black outline. And the side just follows the line of the eye hole. Okay, let's get this, this real rough of, where his musculature is, 'cause we want to get accustom in here. And remember dynamic, remember dynamic pose so we want to exaggerate ever so slightly, "there I can see what I'm doing", the musculature. There's his web, this is the easiest way to do web. We're going to do again classic Spiderman, the lines come across his chest, in a V slightly smaller towards a belt which they're connected to, belt band has a point. In the center of that, we barely see that mis-angled. Then we have lines for the boots and in order for you who can hardly see, okay, this then goes in an outward line, kind of follow the musculature a bit to a glove. It does not do that on the bottom half of the legs. So this area, the inner part of the arm, the sides of the torso and basically the pants area is the blue and the remainder is red with webs. And we'll just give you an impression of how that works, it generally has one line down the center on the top, two lines at the bottom, curves go outward and you can finish it from there. Don't forget his spider which is black on the chest. From there you have the remainder of the web lines. And that's your basic tutorial on how to draw Spiderman."