Practice drawing the characters

• 1). Get a Captain Underpants book or look up Captain Underpants on the Internet to see images of the characters. The main characters are Captain Underpants, Mr. Krupp, the school principal, and students George Beard and Harold Hutchins.
  
  
• 2). To draw Captain Underpants, start with a stick figure. Draw a large circle over the center of the figure for the body. Draw an egg shape for the head, with the bigger end of the egg for his chin and the smaller end of the egg for the top of his head. The chin end should overlap the body. Arms and legs can be added to the stick figure after drawing the main shapes. Draw a line across the body, a bit higher up than halfway. This is the top of the underpants. Draw a cape across the shoulders. Note that it looks like a towel with little points at the bottom of the cape. Check your reference image of Captain Underpants and add hair, eyes, mouth, nose and underpants details.
  
  
• 3). To draw Mr. Krupp, Captain Underpants' alter ego, just draw the same character, only give him shirt, pants, shoes and a tie.
  
  
• 4). George Beard and Harold Hutchins can be started with stick figures too. Make them shorter than Captain Underpants. Draw a rectangle that is a bit wider at the bottom for the body and head over the stick figures. Draw a horizontal line about halfway up to separate the body from the head. Then fill in the arms and legs. Check your reference images to copy the details for each boy. George has a tie and a flat-top haircut and darker skin. Harold has big hair that looks like a cloud on his head, bigger in the front than it is in the back. Harold wears a striped shirt. Both boys wear shorts.
  
  

Creating your comic

• 1). Write your story. Plan each drawing and the words that go with it. Here are the basic elements in a "Captain Underpants" story: George and Harold are funny, smart boys with a knack for getting in trouble. Mr. Krupp is a grumpy principal who wants to catch George and Harold causing trouble so he can punish them. But, whenever Mr. Krupp hears someone snap their fingers, he turns into Captain Underpants, a superhero. George and Harold know that the only way to turn Captain Underpants back into Mr. Krupp is to pour water over his head. There is always a bad guy they fight. Often the bad guy is an alien, a zombie, or something that climbs from the toilet. Remember to make your story as funny as you can.
  
  
• 2). Include some flip-o-rama pages in your story. Every "Captain Underpants" book includes flip-o-rama pages that use a flip-book animation technique. Usually it shows Harold or George bonking a bad guy or monster with something like a rolling pin or a toilet plunger. Each flip-o-rama has two pages to show the action. The reader holds the lower right corner of the first page and flips it quickly back and forth, creating an animated motion. Draw your first page with Harold or George holding an object like a rolling pin in the air, next to the monster. For the second page, trace the first page, only this time show the rolling pin or other object hitting the monster. Remember that the monster should make a face in the second drawing. Then transfer the second drawing to regular drawing paper. In the lower right corner of the first flip-o-rama page, you could draw a semi-circle that says "right thumb here" to show readers how to use the flip-o-rama.
  
  
• 3). Draw your "Captain Underpants" story in pencil. Remember to make the drawings as funny as you can. After the pencil drawings are done, add words using a black fine line marker and draw word balloons around the letters. Try to keep the letters out of faces and arms in the drawing.
  
  
• 4). Draw over your pencil lines in ink to make it look like a real comic book. This is called inking. Erase any pencil lines left over after inking.