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How to draw Spiderman (Part 1)

by Vincenzo

 

Ready to learn how to draw Spiderman? Hi Spiderman lovers and welcome to this tutorial dedicated to the friendly Superhero!

 

 

 

I know you are excited and you want to start but let me tell you what you are going to learn if you follow the following instructions.

 

Drawing Spiderman means basically been able to draw a human male with an appropriate costume (putting aside for a while the fancy poses that spidey can show off). I will assume that you can reasonably draw a human character here and focus instead on drawing the costume which, honestly, can be a bit tricky if not tackled right.

 

Let's get started friends!

 

How to draw Spiderman - Set up the costume

 

In this tutorial I'll provide a generic silouette of a hero character and we'll progressively "clothe" it with the Spiderman costume. To download the silouette just "save the image as" using the right click of the mouse.

 

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As you can see here, this is a basic shape I have drawn myself and you can actually use it for other projects if you wish. The first thing we are going to do is defining the outline of Spiderman costume using a red line.

 

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Ok really easy so far. One important, very important thing is that when you draw on the body, you should try to follow the shape of the body. See for example the two lines on the calf muscles.

 

They are not straight but curved, they follow the natural curvature of the leg at that particular angle and perspective. Same thing with the lines that define the chest portion of the costume and the forearm ones.

 

I will not repeat myself over and over but try t apply this rule to the next steps as well and you will draw an amazing looking costume. Do not follow it and the costume will look flat and weird looking. It will not fit the character.

 

How to draw Spiderman - drawing the web 01

 

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Next step is defining the center of the web! If you have not noticed it, Spider's costume has a single web covering it that has its center exactly in the middle of the face. So you need to find the approximate center of the face and put a spot in it.

 

From there draw approximately 7 lines for each side of the face. I say approximately because there is no defined rule and various artist will use different number of lines and slightly different structure of the web. Done it? Let's move on then.

 

How to draw Spiderman - drawing the web 02

 

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When you are done with the face I press you to move onto the chest, forearms and legs before refining the face. I know you could be tempted but please resist and continue expanding the web on the chest and limbs. This will help obtaining a more consistent drawing.

 

This might be a laborious part so take your time.

 

When you draw the lines on the chest and limbs again try to follow the shape of the body. Moreover try to keep in mind that the rays of the web tend to diverge and do not run parallels. So from the neck try to make these rays diverge slightly. More on the next img.

 

In the next part we'll see how to draw the web on the body!

 

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