Creating Your Own Comic Book Superheroes

Today lets create a comic book superhero. Creating comic book superheroes is not as simple as it may seem, it takes a lot of thought. You have to think of a name for your hero, what powers your hero will have, what his costume will look like and what your hero will look like as a civilian.

I’m going to start with the powers my superhero will have. He will be able to shot flames from his hands, create and throw fireballs and he will be able to fly using currents of heat waves that come from his body.

Now that I know what powers my hero will have I can come up with a name for him and I will name him Fire Bug. He will be a young man in his early twenties with black hair in his civilian life, but he will have flaming hair when he’s Fire Bug. Now lets design his costume.

This is going to be a very basic drawing just to see what the costume will look like. First I’ll start with basic shapes for the body front, back and side view using a simple pose.


Fire Bug won’t be wearing a mask so I can put in the facial features, the flaming hair and put in some muscle tone.


Now I can put in the costume design.


I’ll add some color with color pencils and I’m done.


If you would like to see more detail of how to do this check out my How To Make Your Own Superhero video and then go create your own comic book superhero and see how much it can be.

Be sure to check out my posts on creating female superheroes and creating a super villain.

Here is a great book on creating superheroes and villains.



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This Week's $5 Print For Sale

This week's $5 print is of another painting I did of Emma Frost, The White Queen #2 This print is 8.5"x11" and on high quality photo paper with a satin finish. Shipping and insurance for this print is $7.65.

You can see more of these $5 prints in the sidebar.

I am also available for commission work. If you want something special that is uniquely yours let me know.

The White Queen

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Be sure to check out my new Comic Book Video site. This site has videos comic book artist like Jim Lee, Alex Ross, Todd Mcfarlane, John Romita Sr and more doing what you like to see them doing, drawing. There are also video documentaries on Superman and the history of comics. Check it out.

Also check out My Video on how I do my comic book superhero paintings.Check it out.

New Commission

I’m working on a new commission. This is the fourth commission I have done for this lady and she says she plans to get more and I’m not complaining at all. This will be the second black Wonder Woman I have done for her. Here is the painting so far.
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This is what she wants me to work from

This is my sketch

This is my pencils on the canvas

This Weeks Print for Sale

This week’s poster print is of one of my own creations, I call her "De Mona of Hell". This print like the previous prints is $30 with a shipping charge of $8. The print is 16”x20” on high quality photo print paper. It is expertly made by FinerWorks. If you would like to buy this poster print just click Buy It Now below the image. If you would like a smaller or larger size let me know and we’ll work something out. You will always be able to find the weeks print for sale in my sidebar.
Remember I am also available for commission work. If you want something special that is uniquely yours let me know.

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Splitting The Blog

After careful thought I have decided that I will split this blog into two different blogs. This one will be for my comic book character art and the new one will be for my surreal art. That way you can enjoy the style of art you like best.

New Commission

I have started on a new commission. This time it's a character based on the lady that having the commission done. She wants to see herself as a jungle woman who she's calling Diva, kneeing next to her pet white tiger.

Below is the concept sketch and what I have put on the canvas so far. I will try to post the step by step of the progress of the painting.

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This is an original character created by the wanting the commission.

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Comic Book Character Commission Finished

Well, The comic book character commission painting I wrote about here is now finished. I didn't get to put up the steps of doing this painting like I intented to, but here is a look at it from the start to the finish. Click the images to see a larger version.

This is an original character that the guy I did the commission for created.

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How I do My Comic Book Superhero Paintings

For those who are interested, here is a video on how I create my comic book superhero paintings, which I call my superhero portraits. I hope you enjoy it.

Please leave a comment. I would love to know what you think good or bad.

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This Weeks Print for Sale

This week’s print is of one of my superhero portrait paintings. This painting ofthe Else World's Supergirl was a commission piece I did. This print like the previous prints is $30 with a shipping charge of $8. The print is 16”x20” on high quality photo print paper. It is expertly made by FinerWorks. If you would like to buy this print just click Buy Now below the image. If you would like a smaller or larger size let me know and we’ll work something out. You will always be able to find the weeks print for sale in my sidebar.
Remember I am also available for commission work. If you want something special that is uniquely yours let me know.

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My Most Recent Commissions

I wanted to take this time to share with you some of my most recent commissions. Like I said before I do two types of art, surrealism and comic book superhero paintings. Although I really like doing the surreal stuff the most, it just seems that my comic book superhero stuff is the best selling right now. Anyway, here are my most recent finished commissions. Click the thumbs to see the larger picture.

Remember I am also available for commission work. If you want something special that is uniquely yours let me know. .

Don’t forget to check out this week’s Print For Sale on the sidebar.

Working on Comic Book Superhero Commission

I have started on the new comic book superhero commission that I talked about last week. Below are the character I’ll be doing, the reference photo I’ll be working from and the sketch I have done. The name of the character is Sharise. I will be posting the progress of the painting here.

This is an original character that the guy I’m doing the commission for created.

Don’t forget to check out this week’s Print For Sale on the sidebar.

Ebay Commissions Helping In My Quest

I had a commission auction up on Ebay that ended Sunday. To my surprise a guy that I had just finished a commission for won it. In fact, I haven’t even shipped the finished piece to him yet. Added to that is another guy contacted me to do a commission for him. We are working out the details now. He lives in London. You can check HERE to see the ended auction.
I also recently sold a poster print of one of my newer superhero portrait paintings. Below is the painting.

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What I’m going to do is have a different poster print here for sale each week starting with this one. This print is $30 with a shipping charge of $8. The print is 16”x20” on high quality photo print paper. It is expertly made by FinerWorks. If you would like to buy this print just click Buy Now below the image. If you would like a smaller or larger size let me know and we’ll work something out. And as the title of this post states I am also available for commission work. If you want something special that is uniquely yours let me know.

My Art Blog Introduction

Hi, My Name is Michael Bridges. With this blog I hope to accomplish two things. One is to get my name and art out to a larger group of people and two is simply to make money from my art. I do two kinds of art styles.

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Surrealism, which is my real passion and gives me the most pleasure to do. This painting titled "Portrait of Salvador Dali", is one of my surreal paintings. Salvadore Dali is my favorite artist and the reason I started doing surreal art.

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Superhero paintings, I really like doing superhero paintings because it's a challenge to change a photo of some model into a believeable painting of some superhero. This painting is of Supergirl and one of the first I did of the superhero paintings, which I like to call superhero portraits.

For this blog I will be concentrating on my comic book superhero artwork. You can see my surreal work at http://myartquest2.blogspot.com. I will be posting items for sale here such as prints, posters, original art, t-shirts and other stuff. I will also be showing some works in progress. So keep coming back to see how I'm doing in my "Quest to Make Money as an comic book superhero Artist".