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Even when characters are just standing, the same rules apply. Notice the figures on the facing page ...

In each case, the smaller figurę is okay. But just okay. Not particularly dramatic, not overly heroic, and certainly not very interesting.

Now then, see how the larger figures, which illustrate the same poses, have morę drama to them, morę heroism, and far morę interest.

The variations may not seem to be major, and yet as simple a device as thrusting the head farther forward, or spreading the legs farther apart, can make all the difference in the world. Basically, the smaller figures are perfectly adequate drawings; but the larger ones are Marvel-style drawings!

On the two following pages (68 and 69) you’ll find a number of other action sketches which are all pure Marvel. Study them carefully and try to duplicate them. They’re simple, loose, free-and-easy, and—although each was done with just a few sketchy lines—they’re all excellent examples of how to get that Marvel feeling in even the simplest of drawings.