Robison Quarter 2 Independent Reading: Drawing the Marvel Way

Drawing the Marvel Way

Drawing the Marvel Way is a book by Stan Lee and John Buscema that teaches you how to draw in a comic book style I was able to find an online free version of this book here.
Shapes: Shapes are a common tactic to show a new drawer that complicated shapes are just made up of smaller more simple shapes like squares and rectangles or circles and ovals. For example here is a simplified picture of the superhero Daredevil:

Dare Devil in a simplified form without details.
(Not my picture)

People are not 2-dimensional objects they're round If you notice Daredevil's simplified form you'll see that his bicep is made of a cylinder as well as his legs, The most complex structure of the human body to draw is the head.
Most people when they draw a person they try to draw a circle but the thing about people's heads is that they are not a ball or sphere human heads are built differently for every individual. Most heads, in drawing, are based off a cylinder not a sphere.
A drawing has many different stages for example when you draw a person a dog or any object you start with the basic shape, after that you start with the more specific lines of the object for example a tree branch is a cylinder that gets more narrow the further you go down for a simple shape but tree branches are straight so you have to put in the curves and twigs.
Next is the detail of the object for example branches aren't a smooth object, they have bark, you have to put the individual lines though you do not need to put to many because you only need a couple of lines inside of the object to give the illusion of texture.
Comic book coloring section:If you are looking for comic books however which is what this is about you do need to stay inside the lines this is because of the comic book style. Comic books completely ignore the next color section. Comic books have been colored and printed since the 1940's and they've been printed with a style of a dotted printing system making all the colors made of individual dots on the paper although in recent years they've been able to color the entire comic due to prices and costs of printing going down.
Next is a general tip for coloring in a art project or art piece, if you want to create a comic book and want/need to color it skip this section (this also has to do with oil pastels): if you chose to use color depending on the style of the drawing, branches are not just brown, every color is made up of 3 primary colors so that means nothing is just "brown" or "purple" or "black" or "orange" every color have hints of other colors inside of them and that's usually due to the colors around them, for example if you are drawing a tree unless it is the season of fall or winter, though that depends on the tree, you are going to have green leaves. What does this change? You may ask well what it does is it makes the colors blend like with the tree branch if your tree has leaves that are green then when the area is close to a branch draw outside the lines put some green into the branch it allows the colors to blend together and makes the picture look smoother and allows more flow to the picture.

Perspective: Perspective is an essential point to a comic if you want a comic to have depth you must have a point of perspective. Perspective is something that needs to be assessed before you draw a scene if you do not have a perspective then the image has no direction it will look very poor due to the clashing directions of objects in a scene, an example of good perspective is shown in the picture at the below. My Final Result is also pictured below as well as a simplified shape form.