Learn to draw comic book characters with fun and easy, step-by-step drawing projects, and then design your own superheroes and villains.Are you an aspiring cartoonist or comic book artist? ThenYou Can Draw Comic Book Charactersis just for you! Following thesimple step-by-step projectsin this fun and exciting book, beginning artists—both the young and the young at heart—will learn to draw a range oforiginalheroic and villainous comic characters, each with their own background story and superpower! Tips, techniques, and easy-to-understand instructions fordrawing faces, hair, costumes, and poseswill help you create your own unique characters in no time. You’ll not only learn how todesign charactersfrom scratch, but you’ll also discover how to add dialog and tell a story using panels.The book opens with helpful sections ontools and materials,essentialdrawing techniques, andcolor.This information ensures that you knowthe basicsbefore getting started on thestep-by-step projectsthat follow. Get to know and draw more than 25 fun characters, including:Jinx Tagget,whose discovery of the Star Stone allows her to control gravity with energy pulses from her hands (and therefore fly!)Tazu the Terror,whose greatest power is not his magical staff, but his ability to accurately predict the actions of his foesMonsclara,a powerful but clumsy alien race from the planet MarumeiBattle Model KR-E2,fully sentient robots that want to wake up other KR robotsAlleyne,the smallest person from a planet full of giants, who accidentally ended up on Earth after being zapped through a warp tunnelCordy Seacliff,child genius, who created a jet-pack inspired by the old sci-fi movies he lovesBabsti,professor and expert Egyptologist who discovered the secrets the cat goddess Bastet, whose powers she is now able to yieldThe Vortexer,an anti-hero consumed by jealousy who wears a technologically enhanced super suit with wrist-mounted vortex cannonsAnd many more!Throughout the book, in between thedrawing projects,are closer looks at how tocreate a complete comic book,including developing interesting heroes and villains, writing a story, adding dialog, and using panels. And included at the end of the book aretemplatesto scan or photocopy and practice on over and over again. Drawing a character standing, running, flying, or zapping is easy with the included tips, techniques, and templates.Cleverly written and beautifully illustrated by professional artist Spencer Brinkerhoff III,You Can Draw Comic Book Charactersis the perfect introduction tocomic book character illustrationfor cartoon artists-in-training!