The secrets of drawing diabolical, spine-tingling characters pack this entertaining, how-to title designed for artists, and even kids, who aspire to be working cartoonists.

This text details how to master the art of drawing fabulous females for comic books. From basic anatomy and musculature to more advanced poses, costumes and hairstyles, it covers all the various types of comic book women, along with how to compose a comic book panel and how to tell the story.

How to Draw Those Bodacious Bad Babes of Comics shows you not only how to draw Bad Babes, but how to motivate them, how to reveal their hidden thoughts, how to show them in extreme action, and how to dress and arm them. The authors focus on drawing the female form, but they also offer an excellent introduction to figure drawing of all sorts. Frank McLaughlin and Mike Gold-household names in the world of comics-teach tricks of the trade that anybody can learn and master, including secret inking techniques and helpful shortcuts in background drawing. With the inside knowledge of comic-book production contained in this book, those too-busy-to-take-your-call art directors should be phoning back any day.

Instructions for drawing many of the latest styles of bad guys appearing in comic books today.

Includes step-by-step directions and exercises for drawing heroes and villains in the popular manga comic-book style.

Clear, supportive how-to-draw instructions give kids the skills to render warriors in the fantasy worlds they see in their beloved digital games, movies, and comics. Tips for drawing faces, features, and figures, as well as simple concepts useful in drawing, ensure that young artists have the direction to actualize finished drawings.