 I'm a big Spider-Man fan who loves the Spider-Man costume. It's safe to say it's my favorite thing about the character. I've worked with Spider-Man's design for about six to seven years and I think it's safe to say that I know the value of a design when I see one at least to me personally. So I think today I'm gonna sort of open up about how to make a good Spider-Man design that can be received well specifically for the character of Spider-Man since this is something I have grounds to speak on and I feel that I could do a good job giving advice for this sort of thing since I have designed many Spider-Man costumes and manufactured many Spider-Man costumes. I hope this is a video that you guys can enjoy since I did scour the community for fan designs which I will be going over at the end of the video. After, after, sorry I'm loosely basing this off of a script so that I can keep it fresh and keep my ADHD brain going and we will be going over fan designs after I give general pointers so we're gonna get into that right now. Personally the worst thing for me the biggest thing that like irks me about Spider-Man suits is when they are inconsistent. The worst thing a suit can be is inconsistent like we're gonna go over basic things like how to match logos how to use color properly and just generally you know give a personality to your costume. It's very simple things like are the lenses on your Spider-Man suit just a little bit pointy and angry looking then maybe you should make the webbing look a little messier and more complicated and sort of lean into the more you know darker design choices. Something I like to focus on when I make the Spider-Man costume I think one of the most important things as a lot of the time you're gonna be grabbing this logo and putting it on branding if you're making it a Spider-Man costume is the Spider-Man symbol you want to have a good Spider-Man symbol that summarizes what that character is or what you know is important about this costume with just the logo itself. There's a huge difference between the Spider-Man Stark suit logo and the Tasm 1 logo. The Stark suit logo is more rounded and simplified yet slightly cutting edge and maybe even just a little bit robotic which is important to the movie because the suit that Spider-Man gets in that movie is heavily tech based and a lot more light-hearted just in general for the tone of the movie the movie is very fun and light-hearted and quick on its feet. While the Tasm 1 suit logo is very dark it's very angular and it's very lean it very much leads into the Spider-Man you're into the spider aspect of being Spider-Man it looks scary it looks like a spider it's got you know more shaped petapalps those are the little spider mandibles like the teeth it's got pointier legs it's got like cuts in the logo and stuff it looks fucking scary and that's because the Spider-Man in that movie is a goddamn menace and he's terrifying and that suit is why you know that suit pronounces why he looks that way like it adds to it like imagine somebody in a different costume doing the same exact thing Andrew Garfield was doing or here's a here's a good idea swap the Stark suit in the Andrew Garfield suit you're gonna be pretty confused you're gonna see good old Tom Holland walking around you know being light-hearted and whimsical and a suit that makes him look like he kills people while you're gonna be seeing a light-hearted whimsical version of the character actually like borderline committing like hate crimes on people in the middle of the street you always want to have consistency between the different logos you use on your costume for example you don't want to grab two different logos from two different costumes that have two different feelings and throw them together on a costume because it's just wrong like I I've been following this Spider-Man the Amazing Spider-Man 3 fan film project for a while and it seems promising but one of the biggest things that sort of irks me about the costume they're using for the movie is that they're using a shorter version of the Tasm 2 suit and then they're throwing like the stock image classic Spider-Man logo on the back of it when these two logos do not match at all it's it's kind of irking and a little bit annoying but it's just a costume design thing and this is just like this whole video in total is just things you should do to make costume design nerds happy so you know take it as you will and good luck on the fan film if you see this you want to make sure you design the front and the back logo to have a similar feel to one another for example if your Spider-Man is more light-hearted and whimsical try simplifying your spider logo on the front and back you want to have it be as simple as possible therefore making it look as friendly as possible and if your Spider-Man is menacing and maybe a little scary like Andrew Garfield Spider-Man and Spider-Man one you should maybe complicate the logo a bit add more points add add mandibles make it look terrifying not too terrifying but you know what I mean he's still supposed to be a superhero unless he's not this is your suit and your story and your character or whatever the colors of your suit should also reflect this I feel as though if you're going to have a more dark Spider-Man personally like personality based he's pretty dark he's an edgy if he's an edgy guy who you know gets angry really easily then you should use darker tones for your suit if he's a more light-hearted guy use you know lighter colors for your costume maybe more pure colors let's for example let's compare again the homecoming suit and the suit in Tasm one I'm only comparing these suits too much because I feel as though these are probably the most polar opposite versions you could get of the character possible one of them is very dark and gritty and the other is very light-hearted and whimsical again you can see a complete tonal shift between these two costumes just by looking at them you can tell you can sort of get a feel of who they are under the mask just by looking at the costume I would also try to limit your color palette on your Spider-Man costume you don't want too many colors to muddy up the design I tend to only try to use more to less than I'll fuck I try to only use two to four colors on the Spider-Man suit not including black white or any skin tones but if black or white is going to be a huge color of the suit I would recommend counting it of one of the two to four colors if it plays a huge part in the costume yeah that's pretty much it this is just for making your fan design so now I'm gonna get into you know tearing apart the designs the lovely community have given me I'm just kidding I'm just kidding maybe so this is where we get to tearing apart the designs given to me by the community of course I am somewhat joking okay so the first design we have here is obviously very derivative of the Spider-Man far from home costume the only thing that's changed is simplifying the web pattern and giving the suit an entirely new logo now I do like the far from home design I think it's fine and obviously we don't have a suit we don't have a version of this costume that isn't battle damaged so if I were to fix this costume I I would just simply say that it wouldn't hurt the artist to be more original and maybe break out of using another costume as a template but I will critique what is here and that is original and that will that'll pretty much be all I do for this costume this is what the logo looks like here I'm gonna do like a rough sketch of what we see let me just make sure I get all of the important parts okay because this right here is essentially what we're working with as a logo this is supposed to be a spider which isn't very clear due to the more rounded design of some of these aspects if I were to change it so that it was more recognizable as a spider I would simply here just imagine this one is colored in so that it's easier to design or it's so it's easier to imagine I would maybe separate some of these parts and instead of you know instead of making it so that you know the logos are incredibly rounded you can still keep some of the roundness while also still implying that they are spider logos and you can alter like the angularness of the legs need if need be like I'm imagining this because there's like a little connector right here I'm imagining this is where the connector continues here and then you can do that and then this can be your new logo and of course you can adjust it to what you need be I would just recommend staying away from making your logos to rounded you always want to have some sort of point to your logo because you want to because if you're gonna have a spider-man leg you know I mean you can either go really rounded like this and it still works because there's just enough roundness and it's thin enough to get it across that it's like a leg and if you want that point you can go for that really really harsh point lost track of how many legs I'm supposed to add but that's that's pretty much all I have to say about this one so here is one of the coolest designs I've gotten for this video despite the cool despite the poor quality you can pretty much trace out everything you know that you get with this design I think this is great I think they did a very good design on this one or although I will say that I think having the hair here detracts from the sort of look that the rest of the costume is going for this is a very edgy suit it looks almost alien and bug like and like exoskeleton like so having hair just like right here is kind of odd I feel like it works for other costumes like for example spider woman from the ultimate comics the clone of Peter Parker the female clone works because the suit is more simple but this suit is super complicated and really complex therefore having like a weird sort of like hair thing going on at the top doesn't really fit if it was a different color like maybe white I could see it working but I think removing the hair and making the mask a full mask would be a good choice but other than that you have a good logo that complements the musculature of the character I would recommend making it so like well whoops I'd recommend making it so that these little spike things continue all the way across the pink border here but other than that this is a pretty solid design that I quite like so here we go this I see this guy on Twitter all the time this is one of my favorite renditions of the classic suit that I see on Twitter um this is great right here this is some great a stuff again you've got the messy webbing combined with the yellow lenses like I recommended earlier you know mixing darker elements with yellow lenses although it doesn't stay you know edgy all the way I do think it you know I don't know I feel a little conflicted I feel like I feel like using the I feel like using a more clean webbing pattern could work but I also I'm also I'm also a stickler for messy webbing but I also feel like the lighting in the colors of the suit fit the messy webbing I don't know I'm torn on it but generally this design is very consistent as you can see the costume uses it never varies when it needs to use a thin line it will always use the same exact thinness of line that I like I like that the web cartridges are built onto the costume I think it's cool the logos have great synchronicity because they are separated the legs and the abdomen I also like that he repeats that for the back logo that those are you know though that's like a 10 out of 10 for logo syncing that's beautiful I like the web shooters I always like web shooters on costumes they're very simple as you can tell Peter pops in the cartridge from the bottom very cool very cool I like you know I like of course I like the consistent use of accessory colors which is gray the accessories you will see on this costume are always gray and I love that this is peak color matching wonderful wonderful work from the artsy fartsy guy I should start grading these hold on this costume I'll give I don't want to be mean but this costume is kind of like you plagiarized a paper and then added your own paragraph no offense but I see a lot of potential in this kid I'm gonna be generous I'm gonna maybe give him a C minus and this one from spider move I'm gonna give a minus this one from mr. motherfucking artsy fartsy I want to give another a-minus but I'm also still conflicted so it could be a-minus or were were a plus I don't know all right so here we come to my boy Madison wall crawler I've heard him talk a lot about this suit essentially in the place where he's from those little patio chairs that you know you sit in at like the cookouts and shit they're very they're like a very famous icon where he lives because they all have like this little cutout pattern in the back of him and here he uses it on his logo that's very cool that's very good lore I like that but other than that this is your pretty standard classic suit flair I do like the consistency in bordering on the gloves and boots that is a very nice touch I again I'm a big fan of consistency I love consistency um anyway um this is a pretty good suit again I like the consistency I think the shades of red and blue work with each other well enough of course it could just be off-lighting because I've seen this suit in several different iterations but notice how all of the red whenever it goes into the blue it has to meet with some white in the middle and that's something I notice about the fingers I would maybe explore adding like a white cuff before you go into the blue section but other than that I thoroughly enjoy this costume maybe just you know look into making these you know adding that little white section before the blue fingers and maybe thickening the legs as you know this leg over here gets really thick and these stay really thin so maybe try making them you know a lot thicker but other than that this is a pretty solid suit a-minus all right the spider manderson suit I have virtually no complaints about this costume it's simple it's great and it's classic spider-man this is a simple redesign it's still a redesign because it changes some things about the suit like again I've had you know a lot of time to be up close and personal with this suit like for example this spider-man suit instead of having the arms go like this where you know this is the blue section and it's in the gloves and the shoulder are met with you know a section where all the webs are put on this suit says fuck you and makes it so that there's a little you know there's a little shoulder meme going on here where the webbing will stay here and not you know there's a space there's a space in between the shoulder and the gloves with blue that I like which because I've always looked at the spider-man costume let me get like a picture of the spider-man costume here I this is the closest thing I have so for example you'll always on the spider-man suit you'll always have the red shoulder linking to the glove but it's weird because it doesn't do that for the boot this is not bashing artsy fartsies design but I've always felt it would be more natural for a spider-man suit to also connect the boots because the boots are kind of isolated they're they're they have no way to connect to the red up top like the gloves do and I think the way you can fix this is by doing what manderson does and slicing off the bridge between the shoulder and the glove or adding a bridge between the belt and the boots because I think when you have that red all connected like that it makes the design flow a little better but I have virtually no complaints about this suit a plus good job manderson okay so here we have a suit from spider nerd 05 this is a guy I frequently go live with he's very cool okay let's get into this costume um right off the bat sorry something I notice is that there's these there's an inconsistency in what is bordered with the white just a slight inconsistency like for example some of these sections will be bordered by the spider but also no bordering on the white at all like for example I feel like there should be I feel like I feel like I'm talking and not really thinking about what I'm saying that so that it makes sense what I'm saying is that I feel like there should be maybe a white border here and I feel like these shoulder pads are just sort of abandoned by the rest of the design I feel like maybe you could connect them like this and have the red you know pool in through here maybe if you're really determined to keep the shoulder or the thigh pads but I would honestly recommend just taking them off entirely because I feel like they just sort of appear and I don't know if there's any way to work them in organically but other than that this is your this is your pretty standard spider-man costume I would honestly just recommend chopping off these thigh sections but other than that you know it's your basic spider-man suit and it's you know it's pretty good I'll give it a B plus okay so this is a this was art drawn by my friend spider pleb and this was sent in this is their OC starry eyed Spidey I actually made this costume and I made the manderson suit over here too this is the it's obviously this is spider-man undertale suit which is a little weird don't get me wrong this was the first actual suit I ever commissioned which is was quite detailed to tell to my friends that hey I finally you are like to be like hi you guys remember how I open commissions I got commissioned to make a spider-man undertale suit is the first costume I've ever made and they were like wow and you know but that's enough you know thrashing it for being a weird mix-up but I think this costume you know it meshes the two properties fairly well it combines an undertale logo that doesn't have enough flair to throw off the rest of the spider-man design and you know I think this suit works with the combination of the two elements because one of them isn't really that strong like for example there'd be a difference between something like a bat logo on this suit it would conflict with the web in the spider so I think having the the undertale section be you know fully taken up by the torso in the legs and then giving the spiders section the gloves and shit to like you know do their own thing and never interact with one another is a good way to mesh these two designs ironically without you know having them interrupt each other I feel like this is a fairly good meshing of two properties and I quite like it I'll give this a no I'll give it I'll give it a name minus I simply don't have anything to change about it I've never been a fan of mashup costumes but this design works fairly well not bad so here we are at the last design that I have on the on the list hopefully I can trim down this section so that you know this video isn't like 15 years long this is a fairly simple classic suit design from your boy eat yourself off a cliff so it's not very it's not very clear when I look at like the personalities of these spider-man it's not it's not very clear to me who exactly they are it would always help if I had a design or like an idea of who this character is or if it even is a character so I feel like having the darker shade of red is a little conflicting with you know other than that the ah I need to fucking my brain sorry I'm trying to configure what I'm trying to say I think the the simple-looking webbing in the darker color of the red conflicts with each other a little bit I feel like it doesn't work but then again you have you know again a more sinister looking logo with a darker looking red making it you know just a little bit edgier I'm just a little conflicted I don't think I like how dark the red is I think also the segmenting on the hand here where the hand turns black could also benefit the boot like for example you could maybe add like a black section to the boot this is supposed to be like a calf I'm terrible at drawing don't read my comic book where I draw all of it alright so for example we could maybe experiment with having a sectioned design on the foot here to to mimic the glove because I think there needs to be a lot of synchronicity between the designs of spider-man gloves and the designs of the spider-man boots so for example you could have these shaded sections be black and keep the red parts here so essentially I would just recommend adding a section where there is black on the boot I'd maybe brighten up the red a little bit if your spider-man is supposed to be your friendly neighborhood type of guy you can keep the logo if you want to go with the you know more friendly neighborhood spider-man route that's fine but if you were to kitty it up a little bit it couldn't hurt but all I have to recommend is you know keeping the you know keeping this little boot mock-up that I suggest and you know maybe making this red just a little bit brighter you know it couldn't hurt to have it just be a little bit brighter and you know if you want you can go all the way and make it just stark red but I'm a little conflicted on this suit because like the webs kind of get lost in the red on the specific art but it could be different elsewhere since it is it appears to be maybe just a little bit glossy although I can't tell I don't know I'll give this suit a b-minus not bad not bad it is me spider-man probably spider-man shining my face on the wall to remove all strategic advantage hello hi guys it's me probably spider-man again I'm gonna start wearing masks in my videos more often because I have serious self-hate issues and I hate going back when you guys send me videos and seeing my own face because I have so many people come in and say oh I was watching your old video and I'm like sorry I didn't mean to come here to shame you guys but also you guys like my spider signal that I was showing off just now it's very cool um I might make a tutorial for how to make it one day or I can give in the capitalism and sell it to you guys for cash I'll put up a poll or something I'll put a poll on screen and maybe in the little icard you guys can vote on whether you can have me teach you to make it or just sell it to you whatever works I'll figure it out either way but thank you all so much for watching this video I appreciate all you guys who sent in your designs again go follow the people who sent in their designs and again please don't bash anybody that sent in their design or like please don't be like a shithead about it just be nice and you know send out the positivity these people are brave for putting their designs up to me a big blowhard who likes to fucking yell and scream about spider-man but um thank you all so much for watching this video I noticed that my recent podcast with ATX who is incredibly talented did not get that much views and I think that's because I'm giving you guys way too much podcast episodes to watch when you guys just want to see more content like this every now and then like in between I'll upload a podcast just as long as there's a video in between it this was a video I did on a whim I decided at 3 o'clock today that I wanted to do this video and finish it at 7 but then again I don't want this video to be anyone 30 minutes I'm sorry it's so long enough already thank you guys so much for watching this video and of course I'll see you guys later bye bye bye