BRIAN CROSBY: Welcome to another episode of Marvel Draw.
My name is Brian Crosby, and I am your host,
and today we're going to be drawing
the icon of the Fantastic Four.
The Fantastic Four, the first family of Marvel,
they have that four on their chest
that looks so cool, just like Invisible
Woman Sue Storm has here.
So I'm going to teach you how to draw that four icon.
So my tools that I'm going to be using today, of course,
I have a sheet of paper.
I have my blue pencils that I'm going
to be using to do my underdrawing,
and then I'm going to be using an HB pencil,
which you can use a Number 2 pencil or a pen,
or whatever it is that you have at home.
I'm also going to be using a circle template.
This helps me draw my circles exactly right,
but you can use the bottom of the cup or a glass
or whatever it is that you can find
around the house that will help you draw a really nice circle.
So I'm going to use my jumbo circle template here,
and I'm going to start by drawing--
using my blue pencil, just doing a basic circle
right here in the center.
Just like that.
Boom.
Now I'm going to go inside of that, going to line it
up so that it's sitting inside of that circle,
and we're going to draw another circle just like this.
So you have a circle inside of a circle, OK?
Now I'm going to draw--
I'm going to go back to my circle
here, make some little notches.
See these notches that I have on my circle template?
That tells me exactly where the center is.
The most important center to know is this one.
This one that goes from top to bottom.
So I'm going to draw a little sketchy line right there.
You're going to essentially divide it in half.
Now the Fantastic Four, basically it
consists of three rectangles that are all just arranged,
and they're different thicknesses.
Now the base of the 4, the main 4
sits right here, right on that center line.
So one comes to about right there.
Again, I'm going to sketch this in just like that,
and this is your thickest rectangle.
I'm going to do that cross line right there,
and I'll come in with my other pencils
later and really make those lines sharper.
Now I have another rectangle that
sits not quite right on that center line,
but a little bit below it, and it's
not quite as thick as that.
Maybe it's about 2/3 as thick.
And it's going to come all the way across not quite touching
the edge, just like that.
And you can draw through if you want.
What I mean by draw through is draw
through that other rectangle.
I'm going to draw through just so you guys can see it.
Now the top of this rectangle, and this corner
of this rectangle, I'm going to connect.
Just like that.
Now, this rectangle is the thinnest of all of them
and it goes right here.
So that's about 2/3 as thick as the other one.
So you can see already our Fantastic Four
logo is coming together nicely.
So I'm going to go to my HB pencil
now, go back to my circle template, line these up.
I'm going to trace over what I had already drawn,
just like that.
Cool, and then I'm going to this one.
This one's a little smaller.
We're going to line it up.
Helps that I had those little notch marks because now
I can line it up really nice.
So about there and draw that inner circle.
Now I'm going to do my four.
So I'm not going to use those lines that I drew through on,
but I'm going to draw this guy right here and this guy right
here.
Then I'm going to give this one up top
just like that, and then this one down here at the bottom.
See, I'm doing all the ones that are going the same direction.
Gotta love the Fantastic Four, and this
is the way Marvel legend Jack Kirby used
to draw the number four logo.
So we're essentially doing what Jack did back in the day.
I got a couple more lines here I'm going to
at the top of that one and the top of this one.
The Fantastic Four logo has gone through a lot
of different iterations over the years.
This is kind of their original, their classic one.
So now we're going to fill in, we're
going to connect the dots here.
We're going to go from this corner up to the top
and from this corner to right there,
and then we're going to connect these guys just like that.
Now we're going to connect and draw these ones,
so we have that corner to that corner.
We've got the bottom to that rectangle, corner of
my inside triangle to the top.
I've got just two more.
Going to go point to point right there and connect that,
and then point to point down here just like that.
And there you have it.
That's how you do the line work for the Fantastic Four icon.
Now if you stay tuned, we're going
to show you how to color that really quick,
but that's how you do it.
Hope you guys enjoyed this.
Hope you were able to follow along.
If not, you can pause the video, get caught up,
and we're going to do it lots of other character
icons from the Marvel universe.
And of course, the last thing you've got to do, sign
your name to make it yours.
Brian Crosby, and this is Marvel, your universe.
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