man, I saw the thumbnail and recognized your style. I was like "oh boy don't tell me some clown got one of william 3's pics and is passing it off like he did a tutorial.

i watch this video every day

I find actually watching the entire video and the creation process both amazing and soothing. I don't draw myself so I never watch these as a tutorial really but I still learn a bit, such as various ways an artist might shade. Mainly though, I just find it relaxing to watch these guys draw :) I actually feel a little sad once it's ended because now I have to be snapped out of my trance.

Man these guys are so talented. Gotta keep pushing to get to this level... where it just comes without thinking.

His work is incredible, I love all of the tiny little details that he adds; it makes such a difference to the drawing.

This was it! This was the first drawing I first ever saw that got me hooked to Comic Books and it's art! Thank you Evan, for this video. Without it, I would never have found my love for DC and Marvel!

Amazing style. Freddie is a blast to watch. Superman has more vulnerabilities then most may think outside of Kryptonite. He's vulnerable to magic. His greatest weakness though is his humanity. He cares for all people. Villains often use this to lure or trap Superman. Taking people captive to throw him off his game. His greatest attribute and biggest weaknes is just that. He cares for human life.

The fact that you use mirror is mind-blown. Thank you!

Amazing work. Nice to see what you can do with just a few simple tools. Keep it up Freddie!

Magic, Doomsday and Chuck Norris

Amazing! Thank you for this spectacular sample of talent.

Bout time you got this vid up lol. Definitely worth the wait.

Boy, he started out with an awkward sketch, but finished with a fascinating drawing! Cool!

Typically I don't like a style this cartoon-y, but man this looks awesome. I love the style and the depth of the structure. I also love the anatomy. Great stuff.

Just amazing! Thank you for the videos Evan :)

That is such a master piece.

The mirror trick is used so that you can check your drawing and see if it's distorted. I used to draw my faces at a slant all the time and never noticed until I learned of the mirror trick. You get so used to drawing from you standard perspective, that when you use the mirror, almost all flaws show up instantly.

dude, this is amazing!!!!

This is so epic!!!!

Amazing work!! He is fantastic he can draw bro!!

epic dude so cool love ur staging methods

Awesome drawing btw. Love your style.

Amazing artwork of SuperMan

You are Awesome! I am a beginner in Comic Art and you are really an inspiration!

What else can I say? Epic? Wonderful? Super? Manly?

Such a unique approach for constructing the nose!

i do wish videos like this weren't cut and timelapsed. this is the kinda of thing i'd love to watch real time from start to finish.

this introduced me to some new tools and techniques

That little shorthand on the nose!! Cool idea

Those ultrafine disposable pens are so much better than technical pens, in terms of ease of use. (No fixing pens that seem to perpetually get clogged with bent wires.) Try Claybord, as a means of easily fixing mistakes with the use of razor blades or scratch knives. But I'd really like to try making such art digitally, using Corel Painter and a Wacom Inkling tablet. I prefer a realistic, stippled style, but a noir style might be fun to try.

No, you can get water-soluble pencils like "Sketch & Wash" or "Graphitone" at pretty much any art store. They cost about the same as an ordinary art pencil.

Goku would mess Superman up without going Super Saiyan. End of story. I'm learning a lot about drawing from you and Mark Crilley. Keep it up, man!

the best draw in the history of all time

Did u know pink kryptonite can make super man gay lol

That Superman looks SUPERB

Superman is my favorite superhero! Ever since I was a kid

1. Red sun radiaton 2. Magic 3. Huge physical forces= so if he is beaten so hard and fast he can not heal or regain some energy and will die if taken enough hits. 4. Dying for his friends= in an episode of the justice league the man of steel "Supposedly" died for his friends. Showing he will die if he is forced to die by a hostage like wonder women.

Awesome work

they typically use Bristol board and in some cases even up to 4 ply Bristol which is just rlly very thick paper meant to hold ink on it so water isn't such a feat for the paper

Old But Gold

I never thought to use a mirror to review my art, I always turn the picture upside down to identify the mistakes... Awesome vid!!

this is great!!

To add to the barrage of people proving you wrong: Also comic art isn't about exact human anatomy it's about people with fantastical proportions and artistic licence is taken and things are done in certain ways for effect.

Magic! Superman is vulnerable towards magic attacks.

I can kill superman with an eraser and my ability to tare up a piece of paper.

Beautiful.

the music matched perfect with the video... i enjoyed it...

MAGIC! he's also weak against it hence why black adam usually has the upper hand on him.

what's the name of the music that starts at 05:48?

It's a 0.9mm Pentel Graphgear 1000. Definitely worth checking out -- I have the 0.3 and 0.5 and use them daily.

awsomness!!

Freddie is awesome

The tool he's using around 7:30 is a Faber-Castell Pitt Pen with B tip.

Couple of questions: what was the purpose of the watercolour pencil? What kind of pen was the Faber Castell you used? And why not just leave the drawing in 0.1mm lines, and shade over with the water brush? Also, do those water brushes come with specific paint colours?

Freddie rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's pretty simple. Nobody's brain is perfect. Usually when we draw our drawing we bias/slant our drawing to one side or the other. But when the same brain sees a reflection or inversion of the same drawing, it can detect its biases/slants. Try it. Draw something and then put it in front of the mirror. If you watch closely, you'll notice that it's all crooked.

A silver bullet or a wooden stake through the heart. Or a Vulcan neck pinch. Oh, and light sabers. Maybe a really, really sad song. Let's see...he's allergic to corn, so a bowl of Cap'n Crunch would do him in. Hey, did anybody notice that his spit curl is backwards? It's supposed to echo the "S" theme.

Dude about time

Maravilloso.

I love how they draw the rough sketch.. It may look like scribbles, but it will always be better than what we draw with so much effort...

Magic!

Awesome !

I really like his drawing style

its just fucking brilliant

so what he overcomes every challenge that comes his way,including magic and kryptonite

Magic and can u tell me what pens he was using thanks and keep up they good work loving the drawings u put up

Magic dude!

I thought i was the only person in the world that used pigma micron pens. I love them!

Freddie Williams II is da bomb

This video is old but I enjoyed watching this. I'm going to answer the question anyhoo. Superman has more weaknesses then people realize aside from the most obvious Kryptonite. Magic is something he's susceptible to. A bit of hocus pocus can penetrate that big blue shell. His affinity for the weak is another of his weakness. Often we see that Superman has a deep care for not only Lois and those around him but humanity in general, which are often used as leverage..crap no more room to reply!

His mechicile has all the bells n whistles. Had a Sakura .5mm one but I took it out in the cold and that was that.

Amazing. Thank you...

I would like to know what kind of a sketchbook he was using to hold water and it seemed to have a lot of pages. Also how long did this take him to complete?

what do you use to erase? i think the key of this awesome draw is to clean the pencil sketch.

Something that would kill superman would be (According to the excellent All Star Superman) is overexposure to yellow sun radiation. His body wasn't able to process it. Unfortunately for villains, it made him exponentially more powerful till it finally took him! :)

the hip hop master song was AWEFUL!!!!!!!!

haha awsome, i just noticed that ive adopted using my Fabercastell's brush tip after my Microns just as he does

Thats sick as drawing

Evan how long it took you time to learn how to way to draw ??? my friends delighted with your work

excelente tecnica felicidaes fredy

Red Sun is one of his weaknesses. In my opinion after kryptonite, red sun is perhaps the one thing most likely to kill the Man of Steel.

Other than Krytonite.... Zack Snyder.

thank God. this is awsome even

MAGIC!

MAGIC!!

I see a lot of people saying magic, so I'll say that his powers only work under a yellow Sun. Under a red sun, he is the same as a normal human being.

wonderful

Magic.

is a brush, but you can fill those with water or watercolor so you can work faster

A survivor of the planet krypton other than him. In the SUPERMAN RETURNS movie in 2006, he had a son that had the same powers as him. Maybe that boy can possibily be the one to kill superman one day

A weakness that can kill superman is the by being too close to the thing that gives him power. The Yellow sun. He will get too much energy and it will kill him.

I was wondering what tool he was using,too. It seems to be a liquid pencil. I had no idea, but I imagined what name it would be, so I put liquid pencil into Google and there it was. You can buy it from Blick. You fill it with little tubes that look like paint.

Magic and brute force!!!

Can you use a normal pencil (a more soft one) and a normal water brush to get the same effect? or do you rally nead a special watercolor pencil?

I was wondering, where did you get the fabric pen used at 8:40 ? I used to have one, but it ran out of ink and I forgot the name of the store where I got it from.

Anything under a red sun - since he gets his abilities because he is under a yellow sun. conceivably if he was under a red sun long enough to sap all his strength and other abilities, he would be reduced to the level of a regular human at which point anything that can kill a human, could kill him.

Little known fact, Superman IS allergic to being beaten to death

dude u rock

superman is vunerable to magic

red kryptonite is a wildcard I do not understand the potential impact of RK on superman; it may be able to take away his powers or cause them to malfunction. Gold Kryptonite can permanently remove the powers of a kryptonian