How to Draw Spider-Man: Shading

Video Transcript

"Now we have the basic shape of our Spiderman done. We're going to move on and kind of shift over to the realm of visional details, shading, tone. Now start here by the eyes. The eyes of Spiderman's mask are not open. Despite the fact that we've actually captured these with the lines, drawing a super hero is a lot more than just replicating the lines. It's also drawing things in. This isn't so much about color, it's about shape. See actually once you draw these in, that looks a lot more like Spiderman's mask. Now there's going to be a whole bunch of additional like shading and contrasts we're going to start adding in here. Areas that basically show that the Spiderman here is you know, kind of back lit around his head. There's also going to be like shading down here along the arms. And basically the way you can create shading by I mean simply kind of dragging your pencil along there, kind of scruffeling kind of back and forth a little bit, and then basically then up around the side of the arms. And a lot of times around the side of the arms and the legs, it's going to be like the primary area of shading as things come out. But you're also going to have shading like around the outside rib too to kind of define the muscles more. It's also going to be muscles underneath this costume you're going to start to be able to see, with additional shading here. I mean this is basically what this will do is further outline, exaggerate, emphasize you know, the rippling muscle that's Spiderman, his physique, his form, which just does not come through when all you have are the lines of the costume. So we're going to continue this in and around the body and the torso, down along here along the sides and in the legs especially. Because the legs look, I mean gee, look at the legs. Those look pretty blank. But by the time we're actually done with the shading, they're going to look much more interesting, as we get like the knee cap features in here, the top of the calf muscles, the outside of the shin. And don't just think these things are going to stop like, in terms of like the blank area of the costume. No, these are going to go over all pieces of the costume. For example, back up here near the spider, we're going to have like the other, mean breast muscles that come up here in shading here on both sides of the costume. There's also going to be some shading we'll put in here, because Spiderman's head is right over here. I mean it's important to really think of where your light source is coming from. In this case, our light source is kind of right about here and shining out on to the drawing which means his head's closer to us which means there should be a shadow cast from it. So we're going to continue with the shading effects until Spiderman's all the way shaded and we have all of our lighting effects in here, before moving on to inking."