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A question about comic book drawers please help, a homeschool mom please
I have a question to ask? See,I homeschool our son. And for art, he has chosen to want to learn how to draw comic books, thats fine with me, & I fully support that. He’11, & very talented with his drawing.
Are the any websites that can help me teach my son, & further is want to learn to draw comics?
Any help you can give me is so helpful. He’s 11, & has alot of love for drawing alot of detail.
I want to support him anyway I can.
Thanks to you comic book drawers.
His dream is to make up his own super hero.
His loves are Spiderman, Batman, & Robin, Hulk, Captain America, basically any & everything to do with Marvel, & DC Comics.
I’m gonna copy some art advice I gave to another comic artist not too long ago who was 14, as it should help quite a bit:
There’s an expression amongst writers, and that is that every writer has 10,000 bad words in them, and you’re not going to write one good one until you get them all out of your system and reach 10,001. The same is true for artists: Everyone has 1,000 bad drawings in them, and you won’t become great until you reach 1,001.
First, get off of lined paper. Get a blank sketchbook (you can get some cheap ones with cheap paper from Borders) and go crazy. Fill the whole damn thing up and don’t be afraid of using paper. Not every drawing has to be perfect, and in fact they’ll be far short of that. By the time you get done with the book, you’ll be able to compare the first page with the last page and see the leap you’ve taken.
Next, get an artbook, a really simple one. I recommend any generic Marvel How to Draw Superhero book. You can find them in any decent book store, and I promise that it really, really does nto matter a great deal which one you get. If you want to draw anime style, learn that later, but the superhero ones will teach you many of the basics of figure drawing that will be a foundation of your art for the rest of your life. Most good artists don’t put pen to paper and instantly create a masterpeice, they use their erasers ALOT. When it comes to figure drawing, most start with a lightly drawn stick figure, literally a stick figure, so they can see what position the character will be in and make sure the proportions are right before they start to add detail, since it’s easier to erase and move a stick figure around. From there, you “tube” by adding basically ovals around each part of the stick figure to get the correct proportion for the arms, legs and torso of the figure. At this stage when making a face, you also make lines around the head (again, using light lines, don’t press down hard since you’ll be erasing this later) to give you the correct proportion for the placement of the eyes, nose, mouth, hairline, ears and such. Once you have your skeletal figure in place, good amount of your work is done. It doesn’t look like much of a drawing, but from there you can lay the details right on top of the figure, erasing the skeleton of the drawing as you add the details in darker lines on top of this.
Pick up one of the how to draw books and they’ll show you this process, it will benefit your art IMMENSELY. And from there, like I said, fill up a whole damn sketch book. Follow any other drawing exercises the book may have, maybe pick up a second book.
I’m recommending you techniques for figure drawing, but don’t ignore everything else. You’ll want to learn how to draw everything. Go outside, sit on your front porch if you have one (or go to a park) and draw a car you see. Draw a mail box, a lamp post, a fire hydrant, a building, a tree, draw everything! Drawing from life is just as important as drawing from in your head, because what’s in your head comes from what you see in life. When you sit down and draw an object like a car, you’ll notice details about it you never did before because they weren’t important until you had to draw that detail to make your drawing better. A ruler and/or protractor would help with all this too, especially buildings.
As you grow as an artist, you’ll want to experiment with better pencils of different types (get rid of mechanical pencils and pens if you use them. Use a lead pencil so you can learn how to shade) and better quality paper, but since to start with you’re working on chugging out those 1,000 bad drawings before getting to the good ones, don’t worry about it and go with the cheap stuff for now.
Also, I’d say don’t bother too much with paints or colors for the time being, those’ll come later.
Even if you don’t do everything else I’ve suggested here, the best thing you can do right now is get that blank sketchbook and fill every page.
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