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How to Draw a Superhero - Easy Things to Draw

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How to Draw a Superhero - Easy Things to Draw

How to Draw a Superhero – Easy Things to Draw

In this drawing lesson, I go over how to draw a generic superhero. I give general examples of real life superheroes. its I try and go through it step by step. I try to put my thought on the drawing down into words. Check out the Video!

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Hello and welcome to another tutorial of easy things to draw, today I want to teach you how to draw superheroes, when it comes to drawing superheroes there is an unlimited amount of focus that you can take. In general with the superheroes we tend to incorporate certain positive attributes in them, with so many franchises of this theme, there is no surprise that they continue being a source of entertainment.

But before we start with the tutorial a little more information about superheroes

A superhero is a fictional character because his characteristics exceed those of the classic hero, usually with superhuman powers, though not necessarily, and connected with science fiction. Generated in the late 1930s in the American comic book industry, have enjoyed a multitude of adaptations to other media, especially cinema.

    some characteristics of them are:

*The origin:

-Are those of nonhuman origin, these could be extraterrestrials, mythological gods, demigods, fictional races away from humanity, robots, ghosts, demons, etc. Some examples of these superheroes may be Superman, Thor, the Inhumans, the Vision, and Ghost Rider.

– The natural origin an example of that is the mutants in which can be found Wolverine,Magneto.

-There are those who become through scientific experiments, the origin of the superhero may be an accidental consequence of an experiment, for example, Spider-Man, Flash, Hulk or Fantastic 4. You can also include experiments with a deliberately sought purpose (such as Captain America).

-Obtaining advanced technology or mystical artifacts, such as the Green Lantern ring, the Iron Man armor or the adamantium from which Wolverine’s claws and skeleton are made.

-There are also those who become superheroes after a trauma. There are those superheroes whose families were killed. They usually lack superpowers, but they have sophisticated weapons, tools, and skills that allow them to do justice, such as Batman, The Punisher, Daredevil, etc.

*These have one or more special abilities among which we can find: superhuman strength, telepathy, a technology well ahead of their time, mystical powers, knowledge of martial or scientific arts, athletic skills or great intelligence.

  *These superheroes tend to fight to defend the innocent either in crimes, catastrophes, alien invasions or any other threat they encounter.

  *They usually have a perfect anatomy and also follow the canons close to the Greco-Latin, although they can follow other aesthetics.

  * They tend to have a secret identity (double identity or alter ego); they have a “civil” identity, pretending to be an ordinary person and another under which they act as superheroes, such as Clark Kent (Superman) or Peter Parker (Spider-Man), although there are exceptions like The Fantastic Four.

* They usually have a uniform, usually very tight (to wear under civilian clothing) and flashy colors, which usually hides their secret identity and identifying him as a superhero.

* Finally, they have a gallery of villains, characters with characteristics similar to them, but with motivations and methods that are generally opposed. Stories about superheroes almost always involve to some degree a hero conflict with a villain or group of villains.

Now from here, we will use the traditional superheroes as a base, we will review the positions of anatomical action poses and perspective drawing. You may have noticed that a superhero is much bigger than a normal person, if you’re measuring an average human it should give you six to seven heads in height, but the average of a superhero it can be seven to eight heads.Another thing you might notice about Comic-books heroes is the way they end up looking like a walking anatomy charts drawn with every visible muscle against his spandex suit, One thing you should note is that the muscle tends to work in pairs, so when one muscle flexes the other muscle is relaxed one example is the bicep and the triceps, when the bicep is flexed the is triceps relaxed and vice-versa.

  Now I’m going to name the muscles that make up our superhero, I’ve said in other tutorials that you don’t need to know the names of memory, but it helps to know the shapes they have since it makes your character look more realistic. At the front we can find the:

Sternocleidomastoid, Pectoralis major, Trapezius, Deltoid, Triceps, Biceps, Abdominal wall, Latissimus dorsi, Oblique, Brachioradialis, Quadriceps, and the Gastrocnemius, now let’s see the back view, we have the Deltoid, Trapezius, Triceps,  Biceps, Latissimus dorsi, Gluteus medius, Gluteus maximus, Biceps femoris, Gastrocnemius, Extensors, and the Scapulae.

  We are going to be seeing the basics about anatomy so let’s start with the drawings in stages, there are two options with which you can choose this depends on what you prefer, you can start in your sketch drawing quite light where you can hardly see it or another option, if you cannot stand the eraser, is to draw quite loaded on the paper and then put another layer of paper on top and that way you can see the skeleton work underneath, considering that we are drawing superheroes.

We’re gonna want to get really comfortable by drawing the body in motion, there’s no need to panic about figure drawing, all we have to do is start creating a gesture line, this line will follow the directional movement of the body, usually following the curve of the spine, creates the gesture line of your overall pose depending on whether it is doing either jumping, flying, running, etc.

next step is to indicate at which point of the line, the rib cage (normally represented by a circle) and the pelvis (represented by a box) are going to be. If you have trouble estimating in which part of the spine is going to fall, try drawing on pictures of  people in motion, just trace the gesture lines of the spine, pelvis, and rib cage, doing this repeatedly is going to help conceptualize these points fall and where to create angles in relation to each other, when this is ready, we move to the shoulders, you can use a short and almost horizontal line to mark where it falls.

I say almost horizontal because I think making shoulders uneven creates a more dynamic posture and prevents your character from looking like the high school yearbook photo also, this makes one part of the torso a little bit crunched while the other side is outstretched, we all know that there is nothing more badass than tough guys displaying bad posture .

  We continue with our glorious stick view, we can now indicate the limbs with more lines, this way we can approximate length, angles, and position of the arms and the legs,  again,  if you have problems use real-life photos as a visual assistant, mark the joints and where the limbs will end, this will save you from messy proportions later, it’s not so difficult.

At this point, we have to establish a general thickness of the limbs, to make it easier, think in 3D and pretend that the limbs are cylinders, refer back to the muscle charts that I gave you, as they say, 90% of drawing is seen and the hardest part about making this easy is training your brain to find the simple shapes and forms which make up the complicated human anatomy, take it slow and don’t expect to nail it on the first try.

Now let’s start to review some basic things about the face, to start giving the best of you to draw a basic outline of the head after this you have to divide it into thirds, do not think too much about how you want to do them, these will become: the hairline, the brow line, the line under the nose and the bottom of the chin.

This gives you a vertical ballpark between the distances of the facial features and helps your drawings look more human. Your hairline is where the vertical plane of your forehead begins to curve into the top of your head, also when I’m creating my hairline my strategy is to think about the hair firstly as one large mass and then pull out some directional lines in the flow, I want to show it that the large-shapes is made of smaller hairs connecting to the skull.

  I want to say a few things about perspective, when you’re drawing action poses you might find yourself wanting to progress past aggression on images and opposes where limbs are actually coming out towards the viewer, to do this we have to create perspective on a two-dimensional surface that mimics the way that we see the real world around us, because, think about it, we in fact see things in two dimensions our brain just trains us to organize things based on visual cues, one of these cues is that things appear larger when they’re closer to us and consequently things if you’re smaller when they’re further away.

We can mimic this concept and drawing through foreshortening or drive something to appear shorter to make it looks like it’s projecting towards the viewer, look at one cylinder, the closer one surface of the cylinder gets to us the shorter the object appears overall,  remember when I asked you before to think of limbs as cylinders,  that was the reason why, another cue that helps us organize our two-dimensional vision of reality is to overlap, overlapping is easier to learn with simple shapes.

Now to give you an example, we will use Toki, she sees two shapes in order, for Toki to be able to tell which shapes are closer to her one of the objects would have to overlap the other showing that they are in two separate planes. The human body works the same way because the human body is made up of simple shapes and them we apply overlapping to the form and anatomy.

Another example, could be, that first we have an arm without any overlap everything is in the same plane and in the second arm we have that the deltoid is slightly overlapping on the bicep showing us that it is closer to us, Same with the biceps and forearm, in the next example, we have the elbow and forearm closer and are slightly overlapping on the bicep, which shows that the bicep is further away from us. The more you know about the placements of the body or limbs, the easier it will be to overlapping them.

Once you’ve practiced these tips, it’s time for you to put a costume on your superhero, you can be as creative as you want with this, adding masks, cloak, colors that pop up or something darker if you want, That’s all up to you and also have to see what things combine better with your superhero…

Remember that it is very important that you repeat these steps and practice at least a little, this will help you to improve. And that’s it, we’ve already completed our tutorial on how to draw superheroes, remember that this is just the basics and the most common type that exists, but there are many other ways you can create them, I really hope this will help you out and we’ll see you in another tutorial on how to draw easy things where I’ll teach you how to draw step by step…

These tutorials are made for beginners drawings as for those who are already more experienced, it never hurts to know new things or to review them, also for those who have seen my videos know that I am not only interested in helping them to draw, but I am also interested in giving advice on things that could happen as artists, See you later in another tutorial and always stay creative, bye.

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