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BRIAN CROSBY: Hello, true believers,
and welcome to another episode of Marvel Draw.
I am your host, Brian Crosby.
And today, we're going to be diving into yet
another character from the Spiderverse,
Ghost-Spider, Gwen Stacy, formerly known as Spider Gwen,
now Ghost-Spider.
So I'm going to teach you how to draw Ghost-Spider's head.
And just to really quickly go through the tools of the trade,
as always, we are going to be using a blue-colored pencil
for my underdrawing.
And then I have a set of darker pencils.
I have a B and a 6B to do the details and the darker lines.
But again, feel free to use whatever
it is that you have around the house--
markers, colored pencils.
Whatever it is that you have, the point is
to have fun and keep learning.
So with that, we're going to go ahead and jump
right in to this drawing.
So for those of you who have watched
us do humanoid characters in the past,
you know I always like to start off with a circle.
Again, very loose.
And we're going to have her looking
kind of off to the right here.
So I'm going to draw a center line that
goes down and kind of creates the curvature of her head,
just like that.
OK, now for her jaw line--
and I'm not going to make her as angular
as, say, what a Captain America and certainly
not as big as a Hulk.
So it's going to be closer to what we did with Peter
Parker and Miles Morales.
She's a little thinner.
OK, just like that.
And we're going to continue that center line all the way
down to the base of her chin.
OK, so you can see how we create that jaw line.
This is kind of a cheekbone over here.
The construction lines are always helpful.
And then you have plenty of time to get into the details
later on.
OK, now we're going to do a portion of her neck.
So I'm going to go off the base of the back of her head here
and swoop down, and then another line,
just to the left or slash middle of her chin, OK?
Just like that.
I'm going to draw an eye line that cuts across the center,
just like that.
And you know I like to make just a dot basically to represent
where her eyes would go.
You wouldn't see that in the final drawing.
But that just helps me place those big eye
lenses appropriately.
And she has nice big eye lenses, so we're going to go
ahead and sketch those in.
It's kind of like Spider-Man and Peter Parker, almost the same.
Again, these have been drawn so many
different ways over the years with Spider-Man
and even Gwen here.
She gets similar treatment.
But I like to do them nice and big.
I think they're fun, more expressive that way.
So I did one.
It's kind of an iron shape.
And then another one on the other side, just like that.
And now I'm going to go around the outside of that
and do the lenses.
So these are going to be pink when we do the color.
And I don't come up to as big of a point
as I do with, say, Peter Parker or Miles Morales.
But I do give it a nice, heavy outline there.
And in many ways, many times, she
has been drawn with having her eyelids be kind of an airbrush,
you know, or kind of a spray paint around the outside.
And so we'll be doing that in color.
But these outer lenses will help us get that pink outline.
OK?
Now I'm going to really define that chin.
And come in here, kind of committing to these lines.
OK?
And she's such a great character.
She's got a great costume.
We have seen tons of cosplayers at Comic Cons and things
like that, where we see people dressing up as Gwen Stacy.
And one of her signature features
is this hood that she wears over the top.
So we're, of course, going to draw that.
So that hood cuts across.
See, it helps to have the whole head as construction lines
because now we know where to put the hood.
So it kind of comes up to a point and cuts
across, just like that.
And then we're going to have it flare out on the side,
so we can see plenty of the hood.
Because what's underneath the hood is what's really cool.
It's actually, it's kind of a pink color with teal webbing.
So, again, it gives her a very unique look.
This is going to be the inside of Ghost-Spider's hood,
just like that.
And this is going to cut across and down
and come to a little point right there.
OK?
Now we're going to draw the back of her hood.
So this comes up and around, just like that,
framing the outside of her hood, which is white on the outside.
And then this will come down around the base of her head,
and then has a little bit of a wrinkle, kind of an overlap
happening back there.
And then that comes back down.
And this part will be visible, so we commit to those lines.
So we're not drawing webbing on her face
the way we do for Peter or Miles.
But the webbing is going to be inside the hood.
So you want to imagine that those web
lines are kind of coming to the back of her head.
And we're going to draw all these web lines.
They're all radiating from behind the hood,
just like that.
Now the rules still are the same when
doing the rest of the webbing.
You want to have the curvature going
towards her head, the same way you
would do with Peter or Miles.
Now, again, when we color these, we'll do these in teal,
so you're not going to really get the full effect of them
right now.
But when we do it in color, you'll really see how they pop.
Just kind of trace that all the way around, just like that.
OK, so with that, we can set aside our blue-colored pencil,
and now I'm going to take out my B.
And we're going to go over the lines that we just drew, OK?
So we're not going to really commit to all of these lines
that we already made.
And the point is to just keep practicing.
Do the best you can.
Like anything, it requires practice
to get really good at this.
So, draw, draw, draw.
That's the best advice I can give you.
You see I'm just coming in and doing
the outlines of those lenses.
So you can see how that dot helps.
Now I know where Gwen's eyes are underneath there.
And I don't need to go all the way up to the point
because most of that's covered by the hood.
OK, so now we're going to go up to the chin.
And here's the back of her head.
And that comes down, just like that.
And this side of the neck comes down over here.
All right, so we're looking pretty good so far.
So now we're going to come in.
We're going to draw this hood line across her face.
And we're going to do the other side.
It swoops way out because we want to show
the inside of that hood so far.
And Gwen Stacy is an iconic character
in the Marvel universe-- been around a long time.
One of Peter's greatest failures was the death
of the original Gwen Stacy.
And so when she was able to come back in a completely new way,
it rocked the Marvel universe.
Such a cool character, such a cool costume.
One of my favorite new characters
in the Marvel universe.
All right, so now we're going to go in and draw these web lines.
Again, these will be colored differently
when I do this all in color.
But for the purposes of the drawing,
we'll go ahead and pencil them in.
And now we'll do all those curve lines.
Just tracing over what you had already drawn.
And if I'm ever going too fast, feel free to pause the video
and get caught up and then get back after it.
And if you don't feel like yours looks
exactly right the first time, that's OK.
Just keep practicing.
OK, now I'm going to put aside my B pencil,
and I'm going to take out my 6B.
And I'm going to do a nice outline
around the outside of my drawing to really help it pop.
And for those of you who are trivia buffs, what Earth
did this Gwen Stacy come from?
I'll give you a second to answer.
She came from Earth 65.
That's right.
If you answered correctly, you are a true Marvel fan.
Now I'd like to make a little bit a of shadow,
add a little bit of depth here.
So I'm going to make a shadow underneath her chin.
So just come down and kind of echo
the shape that I already made with her chin and color
that in.
Just adds a little bit of depth.
It helps it pop off just a bit.
Then I'll add some here behind her head as well.
Puts a little bit of a shadow behind her hood--
or behind her head, I should say.
Maybe do a little bit up here as well.
Come in, outline her head here, closing in on this drawing.
And there you have it.
There is Ghost-Spider.
So I hope you guys had fun drawing along with me.
Again, keep practicing.
If you ever didn't get caught up,
you can go ahead and stop the video
and keep playing it over and over,
or get caught up wherever you need to be.
And of course, before you end everything, you got to sign it.
That's what makes it yours, so I'm going to put
my name down at the bottom.
It's Brian Crosby.
So again, hope you guys enjoyed this.
Hope you guys are having fun doing these drawings.
I know I'm having fun doing them with you.
And as always, this is Marvel, your universe.
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