How to Draw Mickey Mouse

This is just for fun. It’s unlikely you’ll become a really successful animator because of this, so have fun and don’t make it perfect.

Materials : Pencil, eraser, any sort of paper

Time : about 15 minutes

Lightly, draw a circle roughly the size of an orange.

Draw a line directly down the center of your circle and one directly across the middle. These are guide lines, and will be erases, so make them especially light.

Draw a wide curve in the middle of your horizontal guide line.

Under the curve, sketch an oval about the size of a grape to form Mickey’s nose.

Starting in the middle of the horizontal guide line, draw a curved candy cane shape to form his cheeks. Do this on both sides.

Draw a longer wide curve at the bottom of the circle. It should look like a smiley face’s mouth.

Starting in the middle of your horizontal guide line and connecting to his cheek, draw a curved hump hitting the top of the circle and ending a little ways down the vertical guide line. Do this on both sides

Draw a small curve in his cheek to make his smile lines. Do this on both sides.

Connect the two smile lines with a long, curved line. Draw his mouth by making an upside down hump under the long curved line. It’s kind of like an upside down bell shape.

Draw his tongue by sketching two humps inside his mouth.

To make the eyes first make two long ovals next to each other above, but touching, his nose bridge. Inside those ovals, draw two smaller ovals for pupils.

For his ears, draw a circle on either side of his head, half the size of your original circle.

Fill in Mickey’s mouth and nose. Leave a white spot in the nose for some shine. Shade this in dark.

Shade in head, ears, and pupils. Make his pupils especially dark so they pop.

Finally, erase your guide lines. Darkly outline your drawing. Add your signature, and now you have just drawn your own Mickey Mouse. :)