How to Draw Spider-Man: Shape & Details

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"Next we're going to start basically to flesh out our here. And that's when we're going to start drawing something like the shoulder region here. Now basically putting clothes on the skeleton we've drawn in here because that's you know, pretty much what it is. it's a little more than a skeleton. The nice thing is, and you can pretty much follow along here and be able to kind of see where our main details are going to go because these are like wonderful guides for us. I mean it's going to be like equidistant on each side of the lines. That's one of the big lessons you always want to make sure and learn. And then you know, this is a hero. Heroes are all about comma shapes. What do I mean by comma shapes? What I mean is this. See this right here? This is a bulging muscle. It's a comma shape. Us normal dudes, yeah we have pretty much a straight line if we're lucky. Or you're bulging off the other way on a comma that's not so flattering. So it's all about like drawing in really powerful poses. You know, you don't want somebody just hanging around, slacking off. These are heroes. They're out fighting crime. They're busy. So we continue to basically come in here on the details and we're going to finish basically outlining our body. And it's actually after that point where we'll add in the details, additional details like on the costume and the like. Now we have our basic dynamic pose. All the flesh and bones are on there, but you know this guy's looking a little blank. So let's start drawing the details now. And the important to remember in these details are they should follow the contour of the body. That's one of the hardest things to do because this is not like a flat object no matter how much it looks to be, lines have to ebb and flow and follow along in different areas. Because this is you know, a living breathing comic creation here. This is not a static individual. This is a real breathing person. So we need to make sure that the lines account for that as we're drawing things in. One of the hardest things on Spiderman, one of the most nerve racking is always drawing in the eyes right. Spiderman always has those crazy eyes and it's so easy to mess up on. And as soon as you do your like, oh boy, yeah, that's it. So I kind of like to draw them in as really much more stark at first. This is really just kind of giving you an idea of how things are supposed to go. I recommend, with your pencil, go up tracing a very very light line over things for the time being. Doesn't have to be dark, you might be coming back in here making corrections later on. Very few drawings are drawn in perfectly the first time. If anybody else is telling you different, is well, they're just not being honest with you. Let's leave it at that. So, it's bringing these lines down here because this is going to be the webbing part of Spiderman's costume. Spiderman has different parts of his costume. And you have to keep that in mind. Actually in some ways he's more complicated than some other characters, you know like your Supermans and your Batmans of the world, well relatively simple color scheme when it comes to their costumes. Spiderman, Spiderman's much more complicated. So what we're going to do in here is make sure we get the basic outlines of Spiderman's costume, like his boot areas and central areas and once more his arm. And we're then going to basically add in all these cobweb lines. Now I'm doing this quite fast. But this is something where you're going to actually take a lot of time. Because to do this right, takes a lot of time and a lot of slow effort. So continue on. on the details of the costume and you'll be ready for the next step."