**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? Then *You Can Draw Comic Book Characters* is just for you! Following the **simple step-by-step projects** in this fun and exciting book, beginning artists—both the young and the young at heart—will learn to draw a range of **original** heroic and villainous comic characters, each with their own background story and superpower! Tips, techniques, and easy-to-understand instructions for **drawing faces, hair, costumes, and poses** will help you create your own unique characters in no time. You’ll not only learn how to **design characters** from scratch, but you’ll also discover how to add dialog and tell a story using panels. The book opens with helpful sections on **tools and materials,** essential **drawing techniques** , and **color.** This information ensures that you know **the basics** before getting started on the **step-by-step projects** that 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 foes * **Monsclara,** a powerful but clumsy alien race from the planet Marumei * **Battle Model KR-E2,** fully sentient robots that want to wake up other KR robots * **Alleyne,** the smallest person from a planet full of giants, who accidentally ended up on Earth after being zapped through a warp tunnel * **Cordy Seacliff,** child genius, who created a jet-pack inspired by the old sci-fi movies he loves * **Babsti,** professor and expert Egyptologist who discovered the secrets the cat goddess Bastet, whose powers she is now able to yield * **The Vortexer,** an anti-hero consumed by jealousy who wears a technologically enhanced super suit with wrist-mounted vortex cannons * And many more! Throughout the book, in between the **drawing projects,** are closer looks at how to **create 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 are **templates** to 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 Characters* is the perfect introduction to **comic book character illustration** for cartoon artists-in-training!