The Art of Comic Book Drawing

Building Comic Characters

Several stereotypes recur throughout the history of comics. These stereotypes are often interchangeable. The big guy in the center could easily be cast as a heroic giant or a monstrous hulk—we often see super-villains that are as heroic in stature as their good-guy counterparts. The combinations are endless—have fun mixing characters and attributes up in new and interesting ways!

PROPORTIONS

Establishing your character’s proportions is important. Artists often use a character’s head as a unit of measurement to establish the general body type. Most humanoid characters have roughly the same head size. For example, a typical ...