- Hey, I'm Mike Atniel, character animator on the Simpsons.
- Hey, I'm Kyra, lead animator on Good Advice Cupcake.
- Today we are drawing Justice League characters.
- From memory.
- Wow!
Justice League!
- Yeah.
- I think I love them.
- Do you know who the Justice League are?
- Superman?
- You sound very confident.
(dramatic violin music)
- All right, give us the characters, Matt.
- [Matt] All right, you guys are drawing the Flash.
(gasping)
- The Flash was my favorite one!
- Seriously?
- Yeah.
- Wow.
- [Matt] Your character today is Wonder Woman.
(light acoustic guitar)
- I feel like that's manageable.
- I'm trying to picture in my head. (bubble popping)
- [Matt] Superman.
- Okay.
- It's like the worst one, I would say.
- Who is your favorite Justice League character?
- Probably Batman.
- Batman is too angsty.
- Mmhmm.
- And Superman is too serious.
- And he's a real (bleep).
- But the Flash is just right.
- I like bumbling, buff idiots.
- You really do.
- Yeah, I like the dumb ones.
- That's your type.
I had no idea that you were a Flash fan.
I really thought that you were gonna be like, what?
- What do you know about the Flash, huh?
- I know that his superpower is super speed.
I know that his name is Barry Allen.
- Yeah.
- Superman is a man that is super, very powerful.
Laser eyes, x-ray vision.
There is nothing that he can't do.
- I know vague generalities about DC characters,
but I don't know much.
- I remember I read one of the Flash comics,
and I was surprised to learn he doesn't only go fast,
but he also can learn fast.
- That's cool, I guess.
- Isn't that wild and wacky?
- Stop saying wild and wacky.
- Isn't that wild and wacky with Barry Allen?
- And Jackie? - I turned off my Cintiq.
(scoffing) - You turned off your Cintiq?
- How do I turn it back on?
- Superheroes are hard to draw.
- So what do you usually start with when you draw?
- I'll usually try to start with the line of action
which kind of acts as the character's spine for the pose.
It's like a guideline for how the pose will lay.
- Mine's different every single time.
- Yeah?
- I'll start with the body one day.
I'll start with the head one day.
I even started with a hand one time.
(laughing)
- That's a good challenge.
- [Mike] It's hilarious.
- I love drawing hands.
People are such weak and (bleep), they're always like,
I hate drawing hands.
Shut up!
(laughing)
They're fun.
- Two buttons up here.
- Yeah.
- It's up here.
It's over here on your side.
- What did I do?
- I always draw 16 fingers on one hand
and people are like, unh, unh, did you notice?
Did you notice there are 16 fingers on the hand
instead of five?
I'm like, why would I draw 16 fingers on accident?
Are you crazy?
- I like how they ask you that question
as if you'll close your eyes and drew hands.
You're like, whoops.
- Fix it, fix it, fix it.
- Listen.
- [Jackie] Fix it.
- Do.
- [Jackie] Fix it, fix it, fix it, fix it, fix it.
- Stop it.
- [Jackie] Fix it, fix it, fix it.
- Stop it.
- [Jackie] Fix it, fix it, fix it.
- Jackie. - Fix it, oh I fixed it.
- That was close.
- Whoo. It's a good thing I was,
I thought quick on the fly like Flash.
- What?
- You know what, I don't like this.
I don't like what I'm drawing.
- You're restarting?
- I'm restarting.
I'm gonna draw a cute Flash.
- Okay.
- I'm sorry. This is just how it has to be.
- I got the pose.
Now I just gotta do the details
and I don't know the details of his suit.
- I know that you can't really see his eyes, right.
- Right, he's got kind of a Batman mask.
- Yeah, Batman mask.
He has the thing where his eye mask moves with his emotions.
- Right, which is weird.
- That doesn't happen in real life.
- No.
- Her style of dress is kinda,
I think it's like, sorta like a gladiator,
kinda, a little bit.
- I know he's got tiny, squinty, tiny, tiny, tiny eyes,
big angular jaw, curly hair.
- I just know that it's red.
- Yeah.
- But there's nothing else in my head right now.
I know that he has the headphone things.
- I got that.
- Yeah, does he have a belt?
Like a waistband maybe?
- Oh, man, what do her shoes look like?
- She doesn't, she doesn't have a shield, does he?
- I don't think so.
She has her gauntlets, right.
- Right, oh and her rope.
- And her rope.
- Okay.
- I did watch the live action '90s Flash show.
- Oh, how did that work out?
- It was actually not bad for the first season,
and then it got terrible.
- Oh, okay.
- But that Flash, for some reason,
I know that he has a belt.
- Okay.
- [Kevin] With the Flash symbol on it.
- What is that rope called again?
It has a name.
- The Lasso of Truth.
- That's it.
- Does he have a Flash, like a lightning symbol on his?
- I think so.
- On his chest?
- I think he does, because they sell Flash shirts.
- Oh, right!
- (bleep)!
(bleep)!
- How you doing, Jonni?
- I am having a hard time.
However, I like what's happening to mine.
- Yeah?
- It's not that great, but it's like,
there should be low expectations for me, is all I'm saying.
- Everyone's a critic.
- Do you have a favorite comic book hero movie?
- Really liked Deadpool.
- Deadpool?
- Yeah.
- I feel like maybe the reason why I hate Superman
and like Batman and all these people
is 'cause I would be one of the villains.
I feel like I really fit into that category
in how I act, generally.
- Villains are anti-establishment.
- True, and I'm always tweeting about I hate Amazon.
- Yeah.
- [Jonni] It's the same.
- It is the same.
- The Joker burning things down,
and me tweeting about how I hate Amazon
are like, the same thing.
- That's disconcerting, okay.
I gave him way too much crotch.
(duck quacking)
- How you doing over there?
- I think I'm doing okay.
I'm struggling to remember this costume.
- I honestly don't remember anything about the costume,
kinda wingin' it, and I think there's a W on her tiara.
- Yeah, right.
- I feel like she has a sword, too.
I have no idea what that looks like, though.
- All right, my Flash is looking cute.
There's a lot of Flashes, so who can really say
this is accurate to?
- My drawing kinda looks like if a supervillain
was trying to draw Superman, like trying
to make fun of him, kinda.
(chuckling)
I think I'm just, I think I'm just
straight up a villain from DC.
- But I love this idea of method drawing.
You embody the character.
- I decided not to commit to color,
so I'm just gonna add tones.
- Sometimes color just makes or breaks it.
- Yeah.
- Are the colors switched?
Maybe they're switched, you know.
- I don't really know what his symbol's colors are,
but I'm gonna go with white and yellow.
- Yeah.
- Seems correct.
- That's a bold choice.
- He's kinda looking more like a McDonald's character
right now than a Justice League character.
I apologize to Barry Allen and his son, Wally West.
- Oh wait, it's his son?
- No, I don't think so.
- All right, I think I'm done here.
- I think I'm done.
- Okay.
- I drew a handsome man, because apparently,
even if you're from space, you're just handsome.
(humming)
- Okay, now I need to do, like, a speed effect real quick.
Here's what I'm gonna do.
- I'm done.
- I'm gonna take the whole thing.
- I'm gonna pretend like I'm drawing.
- I'm gonna duplicate it.
I'm going to do a directional blur.
- Hey, remember the thing you can do to make it look
like your pencil's wobbly?
Heh heh heh.
- We get it, Jackie.
You finished before I did.
- I'm trying to entertain them.
- Done.
- You done, Kevin?
- Done with my Flash.
- Finished it in a Flash.
(sparkle tinging)
- So Mike, how do you think you did?
- I wasn't sure about her costume.
I don't know if it's a two piece, if it's a one piece.
How about you?
- I feel like I remembered some of the stuff
about the central costume, but colors,
it looks like a Halloween store, like discount costume.
- Hae-Joon, how'd you do?
- I did okay.
I drew Superman in transition
from the mild-mannered man becoming Superman.
- Mine is very plain.
- Mmm.
- I am gonna warn you though.
There's a lot of crotch coming your way.
- Crotch again, bringing up the crotch.
- There's a lot of crotch coming your way,
so you're just gonna have to deal with it.
- I'm just gonna deal with Flash's groin, Flash's crotch.
- His costume is so simple,
but there's no way to mask his groin.
- I mean, there is, but Kevin,
I'm just gonna let it slide this time.
- Okay.
- Because I don't wanna hear you say crotch again.
- I'm just letting you know, lotta crotch.
All right, let's switch.
(dramatic violin music)
- Oh, wow.
- This looks so good!
- This is awesome.
- Oh, my gosh.
You made it look incredible.
- You actually added full color.
This looks like a finished, awesome drawing.
- Yours looks so. - [Mike] I love the style.
- Yours has such a great pose.
It's like that Fibonacci spiral or whatever.
(laughing)
It's like, pleasing to look at.
- Yes.
- Aww.
- This is, yes I love this Superman.
- You drew him so cute.
You do.
I love it.
I think that you just kinda drew him, you know.
(chuckling)
- You really overplayed the crotch.
- Really?
- The way you described it,
I was thinking you gave him a basketball in there.
It's really not that bad.
Very spiky lightning bolt.
- Mmhmm.
Yeah, I think I put too many spikes on it.
I think it's going the wrong way.
I think you got it the right way.
- I don't, you never know.
- [Kyra] Thanks.
- Oh, whoa, yeah, you got it.
- Oh, she's just wearing, like a bathing suit.
- Yeah, I guess I was remembering the movie too much.
- Yeah, I don't know why, but for some reason
we thought she had the W on her tiara.
I forgot the stars.
- Oh yeah, the stars.
- [Kyra] She's really.
- You said patriotic, too.
I completely forgot about that.
- She's more patriotic than I thought.
- There he is.
- Yeah, you literally just drew him.
Like, when I said that earlier, I meant it.
It was like, he literally just did it.
- Jonni captured the inner essence of Superman
because there's a cost to being super at all times.
There's a cost.
- What?
- Wow.
- No.
- Yep.
- No, no.
This isn't the Flash I know.
- Wow, he's got full on yellow boots,
which neither of us got.
- You know what?
It's not fair to judge our Flash off of one Flash drawing,
'cause there's so many variations.
- There's many Flashes.
There's many Flashes.
- So many costume changes he goes through.
- [Kevin] This is true.
- Maybe this is casual day Flash.
- It's hard to get those little details,
but the broad idea, I think we got it.
- Got close enough.
- Close enough.
- Heh heh. - Flash is a cool guy.
- Flash is a cool guy, he's a chill guy.
Cool superpower.
I wish I was fast.
- So do I.
- Yeah, I'm real slow.
- I'm real slow when it comes to drawing.
- I'm real slow when it comes to thinking.
Am I right, ladies?
Two brain cells.
Hands up.
That's millennial talk for you.
- What does that mean?
(upbeat music)