- Hi, my name is Mike Dougherty.
- I love you.
- I'm a storyboard artist on SpongeBob SquarePants,
and today, I'm going to be showing you
how to draw Patrick Star.
- (laughs) It's a giraffe.
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Is mayonnaise an instrument?
- Patrick Star is basically, kind of a pear shape.
So if you break that down,
a pear is basically a circle,
and kind of a triangle shape on top of it.
If you can draw a pear, then you can draw Patrick Star.
- No way.
- Starting with a circle again,
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Here comes his head, roughly about the same size
as the circle.
The center line in the circle to indicate his shorts.
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Center line going through his body.
And the reason why we do that is because
we wanna make sure his features land in the right place.
If I don't have a guideline to help me,
I'm just gonna maybe get his eyes wrong,
or maybe they'll end up in the wrong place,
so having that guideline really helps you,
really helps you put his features in the right place.
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Patrick's eyes are, again, going back to shapes,
they're basically ovals.
When I draw Patrick, I like to put a little slant
to his eyes.
You could draw his eyes straight up and down, like this,
but I think it adds a little bit of character
if you draw one eye askew and then another eye askew.
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His eyebrows, his eyebrows are,
an easy trick is to just draw a Z.
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And a backwards Z.
So I'll draw a Z here, for this eyebrow,
and then another Z
on the other side.
And then, you can do a lot with Patrick's face.
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He can be very expressive.
You can give him that kind of mouth,
or you can give him a big smile,
or you can give him a little smile.
You can do a lot with him.
But today I'll just do a sort of standard Patrick smile.
He's got a bit of an underbite,
so his bottom jaw comes out
in front of his top jaw, like that.
We'll draw his cone, and then his cone's got a little bit
of a bump in it, so at the top there's kind of a,
there's kind of a little fold in his cone, like that.
- Who are you calling pinhead?
- Short little knubby arms.
And then, we'll draw his belly.
That's the fun part.
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His belly button.
He's got those three freckles on his belly,
and he's got, I think he's got a little freckle up here,
and one here.
And we'll draw his shorts, (mumbles).
If you see me undoing things,
if you see me undoing some of my line work,
it's just, I'm trying to get that perfect curve.
Can't always get it right on the first time,
it's okay to make mistakes.
He's got those flowers on his shorts.
Kind of a Hawaiian-print short there.
There's his other arm on the other side.
Short little knubby legs.
We don't want Patrick just floating in space.
Let's give him some ground to stand on.
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He's in Bikini Bottom,
so there's a sandy bottom to the ocean floor.
Couple of aquatic plants.
Well, there you go.
That's how you draw Patrick Star.
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