How to Draw a Superhero Scene – Sketch to Colors

Hello Fellow Comic Artists!

Do you every struggle to draw a completed scene? It’s fun to draw characters but avoiding backgrounds or finished art can be a truly bad habit to fall into.

It’s easy to do because completed scenes take a lot more work and with that, more focus. That is what lead me to create this next course.

I created this course specifically detailing the process I use to draw a superhero scene from the thumbnail sketch to finished colors.

I wanted this one to be linear and project based. That way you get an accurate understanding of how my creative process goes and hopefully through that journey it will give you some light bulb moments of your own.

I am using Clip Studio Paint and a Wacom Cintiq to create this artwork. You can use any tools you want but I will be using the perspective guides to draw the background as well as a couple custom brushes along the way.

In this course you will learn – 

• Thumbnail Sketching
• How to Draw and Refine the Pose
• How to Render Various Materials
• Suit Designs
• Digital Inking Techniques
• Digital Coloring Techniques 
• How to Draw a Background in Perspective
• How to Make Edits along the Way and Stay Productive!

Why is this course Project Based?

I designed this course to help artists out there that keep stoping and starting over and over again. By following along step by step, not only will you see how to work in a timely fashion but also how to avoid giving up.

How long is this course?

This course is about 10 hours long. I know that can seem daunting but it really is a necessary thing to get use to in comics. Some artists can magically knock out a page of detailed art in under 8 hours but not most.

Learning a series of steps to create a full completed page of art in this amount of time is pretty much the average. If you are a hobbyist then this is less of an issue.

Who is this course designed for?

I did my best to make this course a valuable asset for any aspiring comic book artist. I thought back to when I was a young artist trying to get better at drawing a scene.

These are some of the questions I came up with –

Q1. Why can’t I draw as fast as the Pros?

Q2. Why do I get to certain parts of my drawing and stop?

Q3. How do I fix my mistakes?

Q4. Why does my character and layout look boring?

The truth is when we are aspiring artists we have tons of questions. Most of them can be answered with time, patience, and practice but I much rather learn from someone who knows more and get an idea for what I am doing wrong.

That being said here are some of the answers that I needed to find and still practicing implementing in my work ever day!

A1. Because you are not setting up the work properly. When we just jump in and don’t have a game plan or a structure we tend to make time intensive mistakes.

A2. You are trying to draw something too complex and getting frustrated. Just relax and simplify the work. Go for basic shapes and simple shading techniques. Take more pride in completed work and avoid perfectionism.

A3. Ever see an old page of comic art with a bunch of sticky notes on it or pages stuck together? I have and it’s a beautiful thing. It shows that even the most amazing artists make mistakes and will do anything to fix them.

By taping pages together they get the work done and salvage all the hard work they already invested. Luckily for us digital artists, we have layers. In this course I show you how to fix areas of the work and keep moving forward.

A4. Generally the character and background looking boring is because we don’t spend enough time in the thumbnail stage. You will start getting better at knowing when a rough sketch is working and when it is not. Draw lots of thumbnail sketches and pay attention to the gesture of the body and the composition of the scene.

I hope you find this course to be informative and I am here if you have any questions along the way.

Get the full course here on Gumroad – Click here

You can watch an introduction video to this course here –