How to Draw Spider-Man: Preliminary Sketch

Video Transcript

"So we're going to start off with how to draw a super hero in drawing one of the best, the greatest, Spiderman, your friendly neighborhood Spiderman. You can see here the challenges we have set out for ourselves. We're going to have like a lot of shading to do here around the legs, also the hand's going to be coming out at the viewer. There's going to be very much a three dimensional effect with slinger fluid, shooting out of the hand. Where also, you can see there's a little bit of the background here too. There's some snow falling here in the background. And we also have like the old used web string here as well. So there's a lot of details in here and basically we're going to take it step by step on how to get this on to your paper. So what we're going to start and basically start removing this blank page is by creating what I call a wire drawing. What this is, is you capture the basic shapes for your drawing. Here we have the head. But then to bring down the main torso, and you can base what we're going to do as imagining your body as a wire. I mean do you ever like draw stick figures when you were growing up? The is actually pretty similar. And what we're basically doing is capturing the pose of Spiderman, that very very simple geometric fashion. I like drawing circles whenever I see like a joints like shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand. What you're going to notice right away that we're already starting to capture the main pose of our Spiderman. Other general guidelines to deal with this is trying to basically make the head about one third as long as the main torso, especially in this case. Actually it's about two times here because he's kind of, actually our hero's kind of doubled over with his legs sitting up. Another thing is to make sure that the width of the shoulder is at least as twice as wide as the head and that also that your hands are about half the size of what you're making for the feet. So we're basically going to do this. This is kind of our first beginning, and you can also go back and kind of compare. You can kind of see if there are areas you know, the knees are slightly off. I mean this is an excellent time where you can still very easily a lot of your pose with very minimal effort and time."