- Hi, everyone, I'm Stephen.
I'm one of the artists at Disney's Art of Animation Resort
in Florida.
Seven days a week, you can find me
or another Walt Disney World artist
in the Art of Animation Resort lobby, teaching guests
how to draw their favorite Disney characters.
Today's how-to-draw video class is on the road
at Magic Kingdom Park in Town Square Theater.
This is where guests can meet Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse
as part of Mickey and Minnie's surprise celebration.
That's 90 years of Mickey Mouse magic.
This is the second of three videos where I'll teach you
how to draw Mickey Mouse throughout the years.
Today, we're gonna sketch Mickey
in more of a contemporary style.
First, we're going to start off by drawing a circle.
We're gonna keep the circle very light and rough at first.
It's about the size of a big orange.
Once you have your circle done, we're going to add
what we call axis lines or guidelines.
The first one is going to go at a large curve
up and down on more of the right hand side
of our construction shape.
Then draw a horizontal guideline,
which will be just beneath the halfway mark of our circle.
Mickey's head is turned just slightly, so these lines
will help give him a certain direction to look at.
With the construction shape complete,
we're going to start drawing his snout and his nose.
Start off at the center point of our guidelines.
I wanna curve up just a little bit and curve right on down
and right back into our construction shape.
As you may have noticed, I switched pencils.
It helps separate the defining linework
from the construction shape.
With the snout complete,
let's sketch out an oval for his nose.
Moving down to his mouth, from the end of the snout,
we're gonna curve on down, come out
of our construction shape just a little bit,
as we curve back on over to his snout.
It almost makes like a really curvy and crooked letter L.
Inside the mouth, sketch out two overlapping curves
for his tongue.
Next, let's draw a sideways letter J for his jawline.
To start the outline of his face, let's start off
by putting a reference dot right in the middle
of the forehead area.
Follow that by drawing a really curvy letter E.
And there's the lower half of the E.
Then finish up the outline of his face.
At the top of that letter E, draw a little curved line
that goes on up to the edge of our construction shape.
Oh, look, it's Minnie Mouse and Mickey Mouse.
Thanks for letting me use the spot at Town Square Theater.
What do you guys think?
Oh, thanks, I do my best.
Oh, don't worry, I'll be out before the guests arrive.
Now, where were we?
Oh, yeah, now this part's real easy.
We're going to trace over the edge of our construction shape
to form the top half of Mickey's head.
Now with the head shape complete,
let's work on Mickey's eyes.
Start off with the left eye
by drawing a really skinny egg shape.
We're going to place the left eye just to the left
of our vertical guide line and right on top
of our horizontal guideline.
For the right eye, let's just sketch out an upside down
and curvy letter U.
Then to finish up the eyes, don't forget the pupils,
or the dark parts of the eyes.
Don't worry, we'll go back
and shade these in a little bit later.
To finish up Mickey's face, we're going to draw
in the end of the mouth by drawing a curved line
at the end of the snout.
I didn't forget, let's draw the ears.
Because Mickey's head is turned a little bit,
we're not gonna put the ear directly
behind the horizontal guideline,
we're gonna put it just above it.
Big letter C, it's about half
of the overall head shape size.
For the other ear, we're not gonna put it directly
above the head, we're gonna but it just off to the left.
(cheerful music)
With all the linework done,
let's start shading in our character.
Start shading in the ears we just sketched out.
Next, let's start shading in the actual head shape.
We're going to shade it the same darkness
as we did the ears.
Let me even up the ears a little bit,
just so everything matches.
Follow that with the dark parts of the eyes,
and then the nose.
Then we can also shade in the back half of Mickey's mouth,
and for the tongue, just very lightly shade that in.
As with every sketch, don't forget to sign your work.
And there he is, Mickey Mouse,
drawn in a contemporary style.
Keep watching the Disney Parks Blog for more drawing lessons
and soon, I'll teach you how to draw Mickey Mouse
in the style you see on the new
Disney's Hollywood Studios 30th Anniversary logo.
Until then, sketch you later.