Customer Reviews

How to Draw Comic Book Heroes and Villains (Christopher Hart Titles)

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Christopher Hart's contributions to the How-To-Draw genre have been excellent. This is the second good book that I bought concerning drawing (I bought it a few years ago when I first renewed my interest in drawing). Though a little on the scattered side (it includes a little on everything!) this book is great for beginners and those artists who want to polish their art with a little bit of added nuance and panache. Check out his How To Draw Comic Book Bad Guys and Gals as well (These books go in tandem). Happy reading!

This book is bad for beginners. It says to start out with a stick figure. Good. It says stay loose with your drawing. Good. 8 pages on the head and nothing on muscles. BAD. A person would be able to draw a good head, but thats it. The book gives helpful suggestions on what type of characters make a good comic book and how to make the panel look good. If you want anatomy get the marvel book with the tools, you'll be drawing better in no time. then come back and get this one for making an book.

It is like some sort of "How to draw comics the marvel way" but its pictures are very much appealing. This book tells you in a deeper way how to draw superheroes in the american way. As you should know there are some other styles like "Manga" (japanese comic style) and european comics (which are most intelectual and uses a non conventional or a very common commercial style).

Pictures in this book are very impressive and I think it really worth for those newcomer artists who really likes the american style.

Christopher Hart is practically a one-man publishing industry. He has written a variety of books about how to draw comic book superheroes, as well as books about how to draw funny cartoon animals. He does a fairly good job of explaining how to draw, but his own art is mediocre. There are a lot of other books on the market that are very similar to this one. I recommend Drawing Dynamic Comics by Andy Smith.

the pictures are very exotic,it doesn,t tell how to draw women's faces and body motion,the illustration is not good.

I bought this book for my 9-year-old nephew and quickly realized it wasn't suitable for young audiences. Like almost all comic book heroines, these gals are soft porn (C'mon: if the girls in this book were walking around in real life they would tip over from the heft of their pointy boobs alone!). I can actually live with that; it seems to be some sort of right of passage for boys, and so be it. However, in the author's process of teaching the reader to be anatomically correct in their drawings, and to build the comics from the ground up, he presents lots of topless ladies that are inappropriate for kids my nephew's age. I shipped it back and am getting the book on cartoon animals instead. Just wish I had known before I ordered it.

Frankly I didn't learn very much from this book. The art in it is pretty nice, but I think it tries to be too broad in its teaching. The book seems to attempt to show the user how to I didn't really find anything to be all that helpful in improving my artwork. That's about it. It's a nice book, but was more visually pleasing than helpful in my case.

Gave this as a Christmas gift to my eleven year old nephew. He greatly enjoys it as it includes a section to create your own comic books. Book is very detailed and is bigger than appears, many pages full of drawing 'how to's' and tips!

This book is really great and it helped me a lot with my art. In it the book teaches many aspects of drawing comic books. I would recommend this book to anyone.

Bought this for my 14 year old grandson, who is already
an awesome artist - per his mother's request. I didn't
expect him to be thrilled about it, because he already
has his style and isn't about to copy someone else's
style. Some kids learning to draw would probably
learn a lot from it, if they haven't gotten really
good already.