LEARN TO DRAW MARVEL SUPERHEROES

My son and daughter love to doodle and sketch, so they've really appreciated these books that Quarto Publishing sent our way to try out which teach kids how to draw their favorite Marvel superheroes. Spider-Man, Iron Man, The Hulk … who is your favorite hero from Marvel's comic books and movies? These Learn to Draw Marvel books range from teaching early readers about colors to showing beginning drawers how to do super sketches to tutoring advanced artists on illustrating characters worthy of being on a comic book page.

LEARN TO DRAW MARVEL: THE AVENGERS

Assemble your favorite Avengers by drawing them together. Create your own artwork featuring Earth's Mightiest Heroes with the help of this 128-page guide that will help anyone, no matter what their skill level, learn to draw Marvel's The Avengers. Inside you will find step-by-step instructions for drawing both Avengers superheroes including Ant-Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Hulk Thor, and Iron Man as well as some of their adversaries such as Loki and Hela.

Learn to Draw Marvel: The Avengers provides instruction on drawing fundamentals, basic human anatomy, along with inking and coloring techniques used by professional comic book artists. The book is full of  helpful artist tips and filled with interesting character biographies and fun facts. It teaches professional technique while also sharing some of the rich backstory behind every character. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced artist, there is something for every skill level to appreciate and learn from in Learn to Draw Marvel: The Avengers.

LEARN TO DRAW MARVEL: SPIDER-MAN

This book is for amateur artists who dream of being professional comic book illustrators someday. Wouldn't it be cool to draw one of America's most popular superheroes like a pro?! Learn to Draw Marvel: Spider-Man shows readers how to do amazing illustrations of the wall-crawling web-slinger no matter what your talent level may be by teaching spectacular sketching skills. Diehard Spidey fans will also appreciate that this 64-page manual also shows how to draw the Sinister Six.

Learn to Draw Marvel: Spider-Man demonstrates three different drawing methods: tracing, grid-drawing and the basic shape methodology. Making your way through the different methods step-by-step and you will evolve from notching down simple shapes to actually being able to draw the Amazing Spider-Man free hand. The book includes tracing paper, drawing grid sheets and practice pages to use while going through the lessons inside it. Just grab a pencil and you will be ready to get started learning to draw Marvel's Spider-Man.

MARVEL'S AVENGERS CHALK BOARD COLORS

Preschoolers can even get in on the action with Marvel's Avengers Chalk Board Colors. Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk, Black Widow, Thor, and Hawkeye help children learn the colors red, yellow, blue, white, green, purple, orange, black, brown, and gray in this book. Children can draw right on the pages of the book as they practice writing skills, and the write-and-wipe blackboard style pages make clean-up easy. The book even comes with chalk specially sized for small hands.

My kids are a bit old for the chalk board book but we wanted to share it with you because it looks like a fun, useful guide for those of you who have toddlers at home. My son and daughter though have been spending a lot of time learning to draw their favorite characters by flipping through the pages of these Avengers and Spider-Man illustration guides. I highly recommend them for anyone who loves comic books and has an interest in drawing superheroes for themselves.  Because these books demonstrate how to do this in a manner that most anyone can follow, the LEARN TO DRAW MARVEL lineup of books from Quarto Publishing earns a Geek Daddy nod of approval.