For everyone who says '1 can't draw a straight line without a ruler.' Now you've no excuse! Invaluable for drawing borders and keeping lines parallel. A must for drawing right angles and working in perspective. Handy for keeping your illustration paper from slipping off the drawing board. This holds the water for cleaning your brushes. Invaluable for covering errors in inking.Ī glass Jar. Any good brand of black india ink is okay. One art gum and one smooth kneaded eraser - which is cleaner to use.

A sable hair #3 is your best bet.Įrasers. A simple drawing pen with a thin point, for inking and bordering.īrush. Some artists prefer a soft lead, some like the finer hard lead. Let's just give the various items a fast once-over. One of the nice things about being a comicbook artist is the fact that your equipment is no big deal. Here we go! On these two pages you'll find just about everything you'll need to get you started. Then we're got to make sure we're all speaking the same language. he also offers extra reading that supplements the basics laid out in the book with all links to them in the description.Īnd if it makes a difference Serkworks hasn't read modern comics at all and when he encountered a Marvel book that had Hydra! Captain America at a bar the art made him depressed.Since very few of us draw with just our fingernails, let's start off with what you'll need.

turns out it's the former with just a hint of the latter as it is a very solid and accessible introduction to the basics of comics art with some flair and bravado from Stan Lee puffing up his company's product.ĭue to its nature being an art instruction book published in the late 70s it's more about how to draw comics the Silver Age way than strictly marvel's way and Youtuber Serkworks laments the old tropes of thought bubbles and splashy intro pages being phased out in modern comics for more 'serious cinematic' approach. Though in truth it's just whether to see if it has good advice or if it's just Marvel pushing its brand on impressionable young artists. and to keep things fair here is a video criticizing the notion there is a marvel way of drawing comics. How to Draw Comics The Marvel Way-Propaganda or Good Advice? - Serkworks Art Labs

you can claim SJW Marvel needs to read up on it all due to the horrible art plaguing the books. Yeah, not anything really GG or SJW related just wanted to share good instructions on how to do good art.

Stan Lee's - How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way (Full Length)

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