How To Draw Carnage

The sketching stage is as important as you can really find out whether your drawing is going to work in the first 5 or 10 minutes of the sketch and you can refine things from there. As I state in the video I was going to abandon this drawing, but decided against it as it could be saved when you transfer to the inking stage and really start to clear things up in the drawing.

As you'll see in the first video, I try to build up the overall form of the character and work from there. Mistakes are natural at this stage as you are still finding the drawing by loose sketching Carnage at this point.

When inking I always use cheap and disposable ink pens, the ones that you could even re-use with a jar of ink for dipping in and inking with. I used a Berol ink pen here on all of the line work and shadowed areas of the Carnage figure. It's always important for you to use ink pens that you are comfortable with and so the need for trialing different pens is a must for any Artist.

Here in the inking process I try to clear up the drawing more than anything else and it's quite a tidying process as you are ignoring some of the previous pencil lines in favor of improving the overall drawing.

Remember that Carnage has black swirls which help define the muscle form of the costume and his figure, so always try and get them lines working for the movement of the character.

The Classic Crayola Twistable is used for the Red color on Carnage's costume and really this is the main color, with a slight shading of light blue to simulate shadow on the edge of the eye shapes on the head.

I try to define the form more with the Red color and shading it in such a way that towards the edges I'd fade out with the red. Quite possibly it could leave room to add some yellows and oranges if the light surround Carnage was of warm ambient light or you could smooth the Red color with a White Prismacolor to help blend the red further which is always a great idea.

I also used a Broad Red Crayola Marker which helped add a more solid Red to the color scheme of Carnage.

I hope you enjoyed this drawing tutorial. Please check the head drawing photos below of Carnage too, so that you can see how his head can be drawn step by step!