
Explore Cummings' drawing techniques and digital methods to upgrade your comic art skills and deepen your understanding of his work.
Discover how to begin drawing with simple drills and lots of practice, focusing on basic forms, head, face, hands, and hair, without erasing and with courage.
Learn to convert a simple form into a detailed face through sketching and inking, using thick and thin lines, hatching, and controlled detail for consistent comic frames.
Practice drawing ovals to build anatomy, symmetry, and proportional arms, torso, and legs; observe people to study movement and emotion, then apply 3D viewpoint understanding in comic character design.
Learn proportions for comic book creation by drawing heads, necks, torsos, and arms and legs with symmetry, from rough to detailed sketches, ensuring balanced, realistic figures.
Develop a more realistic comic book profile by refining facial lines and adjusting mouth and shoulder placement. Advance from rough sketches to detailed features and personality through step-by-step refinement.
Learn to draw an eye starting from a simple form, focusing on the top line, with wave-like lines and progressive drills to rapidly sketch basic eyes, building toward more details.
Learn to draw human eyes with detailed lines, highlights, and shading to give life and emotion in comics, including various shapes and surprised expressions.
Finalize eye design using grey values and pencil, adjust eye size to reflect age and emotion, and emphasize the eye's role in expression.
practice drawing eyes and build the face around them by respecting eye distance, nose placement, and proportional guidelines, using multiple sketches and shadows to spot mistakes.
Develop precision in drawing eyes for comic art by refining lines, inking, and shading to create emotion and realistic highlights in female eyes.
Explore conveying emotion in comic eyes by varying orientation of simple eye shapes to change expression, including profile views; add eyebrows, mouth, and hair for richer emotion.
place the eyes in the center of the face and respect head proportions, aligning the nose and mouth at correct distances using anatomy tips for more human, not cartoonish, drawings.
Learn to convey character emotions in comic book creation by exaggerating eye shapes, eyebrows, mouths, and overall posture to communicate happiness, sadness, or vengeance.
Use a real skull as a proportions guide to draw a head, layering muscles, skin, and hair for accurate eye, nose, and mouth placement; then ink and refine the neck.
Use a photo as a reference on a layer with lowered opacity to sketch main lines. Transform the realistic portrait into a comic book superhero by simplifying lines and thickness.
Learn a simple mouth drawing technique for comic characters, using a basic line and rough lips to add volume. Practice angles with ink, pencil, or tablets.
Explore how to convey emotion in comic faces by adjusting eyes, eyebrows, and mouth, using exaggerated expressions and facial orientation to make characters feel alive.
learn to draw hands starting with simple forms, practice rapid sketches, and build habit through drills that teach finger placement, the v between fingers, and front‑back hand structure.
Use 3D hand models to study poses, angles, and shading, then sketch over layers to add volume and realism while saving time.
Practice sketching hands with quick construction lines on a tablet, varying poses and shading to build volume and readability while showing how hands grip objects.
Draw two hands from a real photo, keeping left and right hands the same size, use layered software with red outlines, adjustable opacity, and simple color shading to achieve realism.
Learn to draw a man's leg by building a symmetrical sketch, adding hatching for muscle shading, then refine with gray tones and ink for a realistic finish.
Draw feet in a four-part sketch, then add detail, emphasizing realistic form over minute detailing. Practice from multiple angles—top and bottom—and with different shoes using a fruit photo for reference.
Practice drawing legs by understanding three key angles, knee movement, and leg coordination to create dynamic poses. Maintain proportions, add shadows and muscles, and translate lines into lifelike movement.
Study leg anatomy with varied positions to ensure symmetry and ground contact, creating natural, lifelike comic poses; sketching and exaggeration bring movement to life.
Explore natural posing techniques for an illustrated post-apocalyptic scene, capturing four characters in survival poses, fear, and movement, with sketching, shading, and dynamic backgrounds to tell a story.
Illustrate a complete comic character from zero by sketching movement, refining anatomy and shading, and applying color layers, shadows, and detailing armor to convey motion.
Learn to build a character by mapping the torso and shoulders with symmetry marks and geometric forms, following five steps using red, green, and blue parts to craft a superhero.
Explore drawing a character in a three-quarter view, detailing the head, neck, and torso with light and shadow to show muscles and depth.
Learn to depict the back muscles of a comic character with a focus on key details, moving from rough sketches to more detailed illustrations using a symmetric line sketch approach.
Create a torso study from simple forms to inked, shaded anatomy, using step-by-step sketches and inking and hatching as an exercise on white paper or a graphic tablet.
Learn to sketch a leg with pencil by honoring anatomy, bones and muscles, and following a step-by-step approach with lines and curves to achieve realistic proportions.
Sketch with pencil by blocking basic construction lines to study human form, focus on bones and proportions, build arms and hands step by step, erase and adjust for realism.
Practice pencil sketching by following construction steps to build arm forms from shoulder to hand, respecting bones and muscles, and aligning lines with how the arm bends for realistic drawing.
Practice rapid, light pencil sketches to study arm and shoulder muscles. Feel your hand move with soft, pressure-free lines as you train the drawing muscles.
Learn to draw superhero arm muscles by breaking the arm into geometric forms and exaggerating details to create bold comic book silhouettes.
Learn basic figure construction with a three-dimensional head, neck, shoulder, and arm outline, then copy rough lines from a reference and redraw in your own style.
Learn step-by-step techniques to draw stylized arm anatomy for comic characters, using simple geometric guides, muscle separation, and controlled hatching to build confidence.
Master the arm drawing technique by detailing arm muscles with hatching, building from a rough sketch to a detailed, realistic render, then apply gray values for shading.
Learn to differentiate the arm anatomy of men and women in comic book characters, balancing muscle mass and proportions to avoid gendered or unrealistic arms.
Practice drawing a man with arms raised to study how the muscles move and how the pose changes with movement, by copying the character from the video.
Start with the head to anchor movement, then build the shoulders, arms, and legs to bring a character to life, with attentive front-back pose and anatomy.
Explore character movement by analyzing main axes and anatomy, using geometric forms and proportional sketches; reproduce poses, then refine with smooth lines, exaggeration, and personal graphic sign.
Learn to draw a complex female pose by breaking the torso, hips, and legs into simple geometrical forms, using construction lines and progressive detail.
Learn to draw a woman in movement by adjusting axis lines for shoulders and proportions. Practice multiple poses with construction lines that move, then ink your final drawing.
Learn to turn a sketch into a dynamic comic character by using basic forms, aligning head axes, and refining global proportions with lines to convey movement.
Watch how a basic sketch evolves into a finished comic book illustration by refining poses, inking lines, layering colors, shading, and adding power effects.
Learn to draw the female chest with precise anatomy, symmetry, and line work, using rough sketches, shadows, and erasing to build volumes and suggest movement.
Learn to render a lopsided female posture in comic book art by sketching the pose, shaping hips and legs, and using light, shadows, and inking to convey a sexy attitude.
Learn to draw a man flying for a comic book, with step-by-step guidance for cartoonists and a superhero style inspired by Superman.
Master low angle comic shots by studying anatomy, proportion, and inking to depict a character above the camera, with emphasis on volume, lines, and hatching.
Show every step of drawing a man jumping above a wall, focusing on movement and practicing the motion, with reference to the ninja movement video.
Study the crouching figure by analyzing leg and arm positions, ground contact, and head-muscle alignment, while applying anatomy tips and practical drawing exercises.
Draw a running character with detailed features, focusing on movement, clothing, arms, neck, and anatomy to capture dynamic pose, and revisit the video series to refine technique.
Use graphic tablets and Clip Studio Paint or Photoshop to ink European comic book pages. Learn black ink lines, hatching, and shading techniques for efficient, book-ready inking.
Plan from script to sketch to ink, and compare brushes, tablets, and software to find your optimal inking technique.
Start with a simple sketch to guide your character, use layers to manage background, ink with varied line thickness, refine proportions, add minimal details, and reveal illustration step by step.
Begin with a photo as the inking base, simplify outlines, and refine hair, eyes, and beard with symmetrical lines and selective shadows for a comic-book look.
Learn to ink a full comic book page inspired by Warcraft, mastering brush sizes, line weight, textures, shading, and layer workflows for clear printed art.
Ink a rough Marvel sketch by defining outlines, adjusting line thickness, and using black areas and hatching to build volume, symmetry, and drama in Thanos.
learn to draw dynamic explosions for superheroes with a step-by-step hatching technique: plan multi-directional blast forces, build depth with dark lines and white highlights, and add scattered particles.
You want to draw? You want to draw comic books? To learn how to draw anatomy? To know what softwares to use for digital creation, or how to create a comic book from A to B?
THIS COURSE IS DONE FOR YOU !
We are going to learn a LOT of things. First, we are going to speak about the history of comic books, where this come from as it will allow you to know where you go.
Then we are going to see plenty of technics from the basics with the Anatomy, the frames, the creation of pages, the colors and the movements of the characters.
There will be a lot of examples given for every subjects discussed during this course. Assigments will also be provided to incite you to train yourself as the more important point to remind is that regular drill is the key of success and skill improvement. Doing exercices over, and over again will make you more able to draw rapidly and in quality.
We are also going to speak about digital creation, especially for colors, as currently all the studio of creation (Marvel, DC, Darkhorse...) are working with softwares and digital techniques. This course is also the opportunity to discuss about graphic tablet and softwares.
Get ready for this course and to become the comic book artist you ever wanted to be!