It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a superhero drawing book! Professional comic book artist and YouTube guru Robert Marzullo teaches you the building blocks of creating your own action heroes and explosive comic book scenes. Easy to follow step-by-step demonstrations break down advanced drawings into basic shapes and shading for you to replicate and master before applying your newfound knowledge to create your own dynamic comic book characters and settings. INCLUDES • 50+ step-by-step demonstrations • Chapters on drawing faces, bodies, character details and scenes • Instruction on depicting both superhuman men and women using different perspectives, expressions, proportions and poses • Ideas for costumes, such as basic cuffs, capes, helmets, armor and weaponry • Tips for rendering power effects, from flying and wall smashing to magic-orb wielding and energy blasting • Lessons on blocking in a scene to create powerful comic panels that tell a story

Acclaimed comic artist Bart Sears, who taught an entire generation to draw with his Brutes and Babes column in Wizard Magazine, has collected, expanded, and updated his influential drawing lessons into a definitive How-to-Draw book.

Comic book artist Andrew Smith presents advice, example illustrations, and instructions for creating one's own comics; covers such topics as three-point perspective, body shapes and facial ages, pacing and flow in page layouts, and inking.

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Bart Sears, famous for his work on the Justice League of America and Spider-Woman, breaks the process of comic creation into solid, logical steps. Mastering each will prepare you for the next, as Bart illustrates in simple and straight-forward fashion the thinking that goes behind each decision you'll have to make to tell a story in pictures.