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When you draw a snowman, you typically start with the lower and largest snowball, the one that holds the rest of the snowman up. When you draw a flower, you usually create the circle in the middle ...

Growing up as a comics nerd in the 1980s, there were three books that became essential to me for learning the craft: 1978's "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way," 1983's "The Official Marvel Try-Out ...

Superman provides the basic template: publicly mild-mannered and lame, but secretly able to jump tall buildings and dominate everything. The potential for variations on that superhero theme is ...