- Hi everyone.
I'm Steven.
I'm an artist at Disney's Art of Animation Resort
in Florida!
Of course, you already know Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
Every day, you find me or another Walt Disney World artist
in Disney's Art of Animation Resort lobby,
teaching guests how
to draw their favorite Disney characters.
Today, for a special how to draw video,
I'm on the road at Magic Kingdom Park
in Town Square Theater.
This is where guests can Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse
as part of Mickey and Minnie's Surprise Celebration.
You know, they're both celebrating 90 years of magic.
Thanks for letting us use the room for a bit.
This is first of three videos
where I'll teach you how to draw Mickey Mouse
throughout the years.
Mickey Mouse had always been Mickey,
but how artists have drawn him has changed a bit
over the years.
Today, we're going to sketch Mickey
as artists had drawn him in the late 1920s.
Mickey and Minnie are due
at the Move It! Shake It! MousekeDance It! Street Party.
Say hi to Chip and Dale for me.
The first thing we're going to do is draw a simple circle.
We're gonna draw a circle about the size of an orange.
I'm going to keep this circle very light and rough
and we're going to use it this shape
as a like a construction shape
in order to build our character's head.
Follow that with
a couple curve lines that we call axis lines
or guidelines.
So we're gonna draw a big curved line
that goes up and down at a large curve
and for the horizontal guideline,
just draw a big curved line,
right in the middle at a slight angle.
The reason why we have axis lines or guidelines
is so we can transform our flat, 2D circle
into a 3D sphere.
Next, we're gonna draw a big oval for Mickey Mouse's snout.
With those two construction shapes in place,
let's start adding some line work to help define
what Mickey Mouse actually looks like.
Start off by drawing a big curved line,
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at the front cross hairs of our 3D sphere.
I'm gonna curve on down
and loop it on around
to form almost like a sideways number six.
With the snout complete, let's draw a smaller oval
for Mickey's nose.
Next, Mickey's mouth.
From the end of snout
curve on down.
Keep it within our construction shape,
and curve right on over to the inside part of the snout.
Inside the mouth, don't forget Mickey's tongue.
I'm going to sketch out a couple overlapping curves.
After that, let's sketch out his chin or his jawline.
So next to the bottom portion of the mouth,
inside of our construction shape,
just draw a big half of a circle
and just follow the curve of the actual mouth.
In the 1920s, Mickey Mouse's eyes were drawn very big.
We'll start by drawing a large and upside down letter U.
For Mickey's other eye, just draw a little curve
that comes off the upside down letter U,
on over to the edge of our construction shape.
For the bottom of the eye,
we're going to draw a slight curve
while leaving a gap on each side.
For Mickey's cheek line,
we're just going to draw a crooked letter C.
We'll get to Mickey's ears eventually,
but for now, let's just work on the top part of his head.
Let's go ahead and trace over the top half
of our construction shape,
again to form up the top half of his head.
Let's now draw the little curve for the end of the mouth.
For the pupils, or the dark parts of the eyes,
let's draw two incredibly skinny letter Cs.
Now with the main head done, let's draw Mickey's
most important part: his ears!
As we draw the ears, we're gonna draw two big ovals
that are about half of the overall head shape size.
We're going to place one towards the back of the head.
And for the other one, let's place,
not directly on top,
but a little bit more off to the left.
At first glance, it may appear Mickey's ears
are perfect circles.
But actually, they're more like big ovals.
Now that our sketch looks like Mickey,
let's start shading in our character.
Easiest way to shade in a character or any sketch
that you're doing is just to tilt your pencil
slightly off to the side and use the broad end
of the lead.
It's always better to shade off lightly first
and to go over it again darker.
Which is much easier than erasing.
Let's shade in the actual head shape.
Follow that with the shading of the pupils
or the dark parts of the eyes.
And also shade in the nose in the front,
then we're also gonna shade in the back half of the mouth.
Tongue, we're going to shade just a little lighter.
Now that Mickey's done we have one last thing we need to do.
We have to sign our work!
And there he is, the one and only Mickey Mouse.
Keep watching the Disney Parks Blog
for more how to draw videos
where I'll show you how to draw Mickey
in two other styles throughout the years.
As always, sketch you later!
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