A Complete Step by Step Guide to Drawing Comic Book Heroes

What you'll learn
By the end of this course you will know how to create a variety of comic book superhero concepts from your imagination.
You will know how to create dynamic poses for your character designs.
You will have a much better understanding of how to draw comic book characters with perspective.
You will be able to use foreshortening in your drawings with more confidence.
Requirements
You should have a basic understanding of how to draw with primitive shapes.
You should have a passion for drawing character concepts.
Description
In this course you will learn how to draw dynamic comic book superheroes step by step. You will work along with me as we break down all the major components that comprise the superhero comic characters that we know and love. You will learn about proportions, anatomy, suit design, foreshortening, rendering, perspective, and how to draw dynamic poses from your imagination. These action poses are essential to creating powerful characters that can tell an amazing story! If you want to improve your ability to draw a variety of characters effectively, then this course is for you. The techniques that I will teach you here can apply to all sorts of art styles. Everything from game art, comics, concept art, and even figure drawing. These methods will teach you how to draw imaginative bodies with confidence.You will also learn to pencil, ink, and color a fully detailed comic book scene from start to finish! This will allow you to put all of this knowledge to goo use. By implementing these techniques into a project file you will commit them to memory and you are welcome to share your project with our comic art community!I have also added 6 Lessons on Drawing Various Hand Poses - Step by Step! ( Based upon a student request. )I have also added 7 Lessons on Drawing Various Proportions and Body Types! ( 10-12-2019 ) Updated - a new section on Drawing Fight Poses! 11 Videos Added ( 3-20-2021 )I am very confident you will find this course to be a valuable asset in your educational collection but if you find anything that would make this a better experience for you and the other students, please let me know. I will be happy to improve the course content as well as add new lessons when needed.You also get all the art files to work along with throughout this course. Please share your artwork in the Q&A Section and I will give you any feedback that I can.I thank you for viewing my course and good luck with your art!Robert A. MarzulloRam Studios Comics

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction - Update

Section 2: Basic Proportions of the Superhero Male

Lecture 2 Male Superhero Proportions - Forward Facing

Lecture 3 Male Superhero Proportions - Forward Facing - Applying Anatomy

Lecture 4 Male Superhero Proportions - Profile View

Lecture 5 Male Superhero Proportions - Making Adjustments

Lecture 6 Male Superhero Proportions - Back View

Section 3: The Superhero Female

Lecture 7 Drawing the Female Hero Proportions - Forward Facing

Lecture 8 Drawing the Female Hero Proportions - Forward Facing - Adding Anatomy

Lecture 9 Drawing the Female Hero Proportions - Side View

Lecture 10 Drawing the Female Hero Proportions - Back View

Lecture 11 Drawing the Female Hero Proportions - Suit Design

Section 4: Drawing the Muscle Bound Brutes

Lecture 12 Drawing the Muscle Bound Brute - Proportions

Lecture 13 Drawing the Muscle Bound Brute - Proportions - Suit Design

Lecture 14 Drawing the Muscle Bound Brute - Rendering the Materials

Lecture 15 Drawing the Muscle Bound Brute - Angled Pose

Lecture 16 Critiquing and Editing Your Own Work

Section 5: Drawing Dynamic Superhero Poses

Lecture 17 Exercise - Drawing the 3 Main Masses of the Body

Lecture 18 Exaggerated Poses for Comics

Lecture 19 Drawing Male Dynamic Poses - Practice

Lecture 20 Drawing Female Dynamic Poses - Examples

Lecture 21 Drawing Female Dynamic Poses - Second Example

Lecture 22 Drawing the Mannequin and Refining the Pose

Section 6: Drawing Various Body Types

Lecture 23 Basic Gesture and Proportions of the Poses

Lecture 24 Drawing the Overweight Character

Lecture 25 Drawing the Skinny Character

Lecture 26 Drawing the Female Character

Lecture 27 Drawing the Brute Character

Lecture 28 Refining and finalizing the Poses

Lecture 29 Final Thoughts

Section 7: Drawing Characters with Perspective and Foreshortening

Lecture 30 Drawing Characters in Perspective

Lecture 31 Drawing a Character in a 2 Point Perspective

Lecture 32 Drawing a Character in a 3 Point Perspective

Lecture 33 Drawing a Character in a 3 Point Perspective - Adding in the Details

Lecture 34 Foreshortening Techniques

Lecture 35 Foreshortening an Arm Pose - Part 1

Lecture 36 Foreshortening an Arm Pose - Part 2

Section 8: Drawing Various Hand Poses

Lecture 37 Drawing the Open Hand Pose and Studying the Proportions

Lecture 38 Drawing the Hand from a Slightly More Advanced Angle

Lecture 39 Drawing the Hand Holding an Object

Lecture 40 Drawing a Clinching Hand Pose

Lecture 41 Drawing a Fist Towards the Camera

Lecture 42 Drawing the Clinched Fist from Another Angle

Section 9: Drawing, Inking, and Coloring a Comic Style Portrait Using Reference

Lecture 43 Blocking in the Larger Forms

Lecture 44 Stylizing the Work

Lecture 45 Inking the Lines

Lecture 46 Inking the Lines - Part 2

Lecture 47 Blocking in the Color - Part 1

Lecture 48 Blocking in the Color - Part 2

Lecture 49 Blocking in the Color - Part 3

Lecture 50 Final Touch Ups

Section 10: Creating a Comic Book Scene - Superhero Flying Towards Camera

Lecture 51 How to Use Thumbnail Sketches to Create Our Superhero Concept

Lecture 52 Making Changes to our Rough Sketch

Lecture 53 Cleaning up the Pose

Lecture 54 Adding Line Weight to the Drawing

Lecture 55 Creating Our Superhero Suit Design

Lecture 56 Drawing in Our Background

Lecture 57 Drawing in Our Background - Part 2

Lecture 58 Drawing in Our Background - Part 3

Lecture 59 Rendering Our Superhero Design

Lecture 60 Cleaning up the Helmet Design and Face of Our Character

Lecture 61 Inking Our Superhero - Part 1

Lecture 62 Inking Our Superhero Character - Part 2

Lecture 63 Inking Our Superhero Character - Part 3

Lecture 64 Inking the Background - Part 1

Lecture 65 Inking the Background - Part 2

Lecture 66 Coloring Our Superhero - Adding the Flats Part - 1

Lecture 67 Coloring Our Superhero - Adding the Flats Part - 2

Lecture 68 Adding Soft and Hard Edge Shadows

Lecture 69 Coloring Our Superhero - Adding Highlights

Lecture 70 Adding Color to the Cape

Lecture 71 Adding Highlights to the Suit Design

Lecture 72 Adding Color to the Buildings - Part 1

Lecture 73 Adding Color to the Buildings Part 2

Lecture 74 Adding Color to the Buildings Part 3

Lecture 75 Adding Effects to the Background

Lecture 76 Adding Color the Eyes and Face of our Superhero

Lecture 77 Adding Motions Lines and Effects

Lecture 78 Adding the Final Touches

Section 11: How to Draw Fight Poses

Lecture 79 Warming Up and Focusing on the Gesture of the Pose

Lecture 80 Warming Up and Focusing on the Gesture of the Pose - Part 2

Lecture 81 Drawing Iconic Fight Poses - Part 1

Lecture 82 Drawing Iconic Fight Poses - Part 2

Lecture 83 Drawing Iconic Fight Poses - The Upper Hand - Part 1

Lecture 84 Drawing Iconic Fight Poses - The Upper Hand - Part 2

Lecture 85 Drawing Iconic Fight Poses - The Upper Hand - Part 3

Lecture 86 Drawing Iconic Fight Poses - Up Close and Personal - Part 1

Lecture 87 Drawing Iconic Fight Poses - Up Close and Personal - Part 2

Lecture 88 Drawing Female Characters Fighting

Lecture 89 Drawing a Foreshortened Kicking Pose

Section 12: Various Studies + Breakdowns

Lecture 90 Male Legs Breakdown

Lecture 91 Drawing a Pose for a Villain - Step by Step

Section 13: Q+A Section

Lecture 92 How to Edit Your Artwork in Photoshop

Lecture 93 Pencil Brush Settings

Lecture 94 Bonus Lecture

Students that wants to learn how to draw amazing superheroes.,Anyone that wants to learn how to draw better variety in their comic book character designs.,Students that want to draw characters that appear more dimensional on the page.