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[Kaos]

my bredrin wants to know what good books there are to help with drawing...and I'm at a complete blank...anybody know any?

[SmittyX]

'Comics and Sequential Art'-Will Eisner
'The Natural Way To Draw'-Kimon Nicolaides
'Dynamic Figure Drawing'-Burne Hogarth
'How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way' Stan Lee & John Buscema

SmittyX.

(I'm assuming you mean to draw comic's)

[SmittyX]

http://www.artofjohnbyrne.com/cgi-bin/thumbs.pl?CAT=howto

This might be helpful in figuring out how to do Sequentials. (Old School.)

[Jeff Brady]

'Dynamic Figure Drawing'-Burne Hogarth


No, not Burne Hogarth, not to start out with.

This thread (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=117306) has TONS of usefull drawing books listed.

[Ontir]

Dick Giordano and Joe Kubert also have written pretty good books.

Study the work of Joes Luis Garcia-Lopez. He's amazing. His people are the most natural and un-posed characters you're every likely to come across.

I started out drawing on my own, then smitten with Superman, I began tracing the work of Curt Swan, then trying to emulate what he was drawing, seeing how the lines were arranged to create a sense of space on a flat page. Later, the fluidity of Carmine Infantino's work, in the 80's really got my attention, and was another great influence. I guess what I'm going for here, is take an artist you ( or your brother) like, study how they do what they do, and figure out what makes their illustration successful. Let their work be a road map. Don't worry about your own style right now, that'll come with practice, just focus on accurate representations, and the creation of depth.