Drawing Crime Noir teaches the aspiring artist how to use all of the latest techniques and principles to create the moody world of crime noir. Extensive instruction is offered in the use of shadows to create intense comic book moods and suspense. Theres also more: The costumes of noir—the trench coats and sunglasses of the nihilistic characters: the mobbed-up politicians on the take and the hit men who keep order, the sexy women who would just as soon kill you as kiss you, techniques for creating dark, brooding, costumed action heroes and how to turn an ordinary comic book scene into a crime noir scene and how to draw the weapons that the criminals use to make crime pay.