Among comic book lovers, there are many who want to independently draw on-screen characters they like, creating entire collections of their own drawings. No doubt, it’s nice to take an album off a shelf on a free evening and look through it with friends, listening to their praises or criticisms and somehow reliving with them the ups and downs of your favorite stories.
Amateurs, creating portraits of comic book heroes, sometimes make disappointing mistakes, and to avoid them in the future, they seek advice and recommendations. Below we look at how to draw Deadpool.
Popular comic book antihero
One can only guess why this character won such a sea of popular love, but they don’t argue about tastes. And yet, before deciding how to draw Deadpool best, you need to find out: what, in fact, is known about him?
Deadpool is the nickname of Wade Winston Wilson, one of the negative comic book characters from Marvel, who can rightfully be considered an antihero. Its authors are artist Rob Lifefeld and writer Fabian Nicaez. The character first appeared in one of the comics in February 1991.
A Brief History of the Talkative Mercenary
So he was nicknamed for the long tongue. Those interested in the question of how to draw Deadpool, of course, are aware that their hero (antihero) is a mercenary killer armed with the latest technology, crippled by doctors and mentally unstable. He liked the fans with his wit, dashing and peculiar delights of cool black humor.
Among other characters, he appears in the main version of Marvel Universe, then in alternative versions: Multiverse, Era of the Apocalypse, Ultimate Universe.
The antihero fights with the New Mutants, crushing enemies left and right, not particularly sorting, due to flaws received by him as a result of a scientific experiment.
In 2008, a new series starts, and in 2009, the character appeared in the movie X-Men: The Beginning. Wolverine".
Deadpool: Life Beyond the Comic
In the film about the X-Men in the role of Deadpool, the audience recognized the Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds, who had already been involved in the film adaptation of the Marvel Universe comics.
Fans became aware of the upcoming new Deadpool film, in which Reynolds again starred. The film was released in 2016.
Deadpool is also a popular anti-hero for animated series and video games.
Rating
According to Wizard, Deadpool ranks 182 on the list of two hundred best comic book heroes.
According to Empire, in the list of fifty best heroes of comics, he belongs to 45th place.
According to IGN, Deadpool is 31st on the list of one hundred best comic book heroes.
How to draw deadpool?
So, it's time to figure it out. Of all the existing techniques, comic book lovers most often prefer a pencil. Therefore, first of all, you should familiarize yourself with how to draw Deadpool with a pencil.
Before starting work, in addition to the necessary materials, one should be patient and ready for serious painstaking work, which, however, despite the fact that it is dedicated to the fantastic supervillain of the Universe, should nevertheless bring pleasure.
You should draw slowly, breaking all the work into stages, each of which deserves a detailed description.
How to draw deadpool in stages?
Work on creating an image consists of nine steps:
- First, a little man is created from sticks and circles, which is necessary to draw in order to indicate the pose, body proportions, and the character's position on a piece of paper. The author of Deadpool's future portrait should first draw a circle for his head, then add facial settings. Next, blanks for the torso, arms and legs are depicted.
- Then you should do a sketch of the head, draw his face mask with eyes, the shape of the shoulders and neck.
- Following this, it is necessary to draw the muscles of the chest, biceps, torso.
- The next step is to create an image of the muscles of the forearms, drawing the cuffs of the gloves, the outline of the hands and the belt wrapping around his waist.
- Next, you should do the shoulders, marking the design of the outfit, painting the hands, Deadpool's sword.
- A mask is drawn, the clarity of the calf muscles, the press, details on the sleeves, and pockets are added.
- At this stage, you can finish the legs, ankles.
- The next stage can be devoted to the drawing of chiaroscuro, after removing all the schematic markings.
- At this stage, it remains to complete the final touch - paint the finished picture!
The drawing is ready!