How To Draw A Minion

Checkers tell our friends what we're going to draw today. A minion. Cool. Banana. All right Checkers you got your marker. Yeah. All right we hope you guys are going to follow along with us. You have something to draw with. We're using a sharpie but you can use anything you want. You could use a black crayon or a pencil. Or a banana. Or a banana. Well that probably won't work as well. Okay. And we hope you got a piece of paper in front of you to draw. All right so ready to start? Yeah. Okay let's do this. All right we're going to start with our paper vertical and that's because we're going to draw our minion really tall. Right. Yeah. And so it'll work best if we have our paper this way. But you can do it this way if you want. It'll just be a little bit smaller. Right. If you were to draw it this way. Okay so the first step is we're going to start with his eyes. And I think you should draw a minion with one eye. And I'm going to draw one with two eyes. Okay. All right so you're going to draw a circle in the middle of your paper towards the top. And I'm going to draw two circles right next to each other. Okay. I'm going to draw them about this size. You can yeah you could draw yours a lot bigger. Yeah. There we go. And with mine I'm going to try and draw them the same size. All right now we're going to draw a circle on the outside of these. And I'm going to connect them. So um they're going to connect right here and right here. So you're going to just draw one all the way around. And you could draw yours either on the inside if you feel like you drew yours too big. Or you could draw it on the outside if you want. Either way. And then I'm going to draw mine on the outside. So that I can connect the outside circles like this. Isn't that cool? That looks like they're intersecting in the middle. We'll get a little wobbly. You want to try and keep that same distance all the way around. But I got a little close over there. Okay so now let's draw his pupils on the inside. You're going to draw one right? Yeah. And I'm going to draw two. So I'm going to draw mine right here. Draw a circle. And another circle over here. And I'm also going to add the pupil inside. And we've drawn a minion before huh? But we drew it a long time ago for one of the first um Despicable Me movies. And because the new movie came out we thought we'd redo the video. For we'd redo the lesson. And the last lesson or the the old lesson that we drew before. We just used uh our our woodies right? Our crayons. And so this time we're going to use our sharpies. So it's going to look a little cooler. All right you ready to keep going? Yeah. Okay let's do it. All right now we're going to draw his body. So if you wanted to you could either draw a short body. So so it's a really short minion. Or you could draw a really tall minion. And I'm going to draw kind of an in-between minion. So I'm going to start down here. And I'm going to put a little dot right here. So I know where I'm going to start. And I'm going to stop in the same spot. Uh same distance down like this. And we want a little space up here. So we're going to connect so I'm going to put a little guide points so that I know where I'm going. So that's that's where we're going to go. And then we're going to go over the top and then come back through though. Okay. All right so on yours the important thing with yours is you don't want to get your minion really skinny. Because uh with the one eye he's got a little bit more space on his body. So you want to come up here and connect about there. And you want about the same distance on this side. About like that. Is that cool? Yeah. So see how I'm a lot closer to my eyes? You're going to have a little more space if you draw just the one eye. So we're going to start down here. Go up. Go over. Doing a big upside down U. And then come back down through that point. And then back down over here. He already looks like a minion huh? All right so there we go. We got his body. So now what we can do is we can do his hair. And and minions have all different kinds of hair. You can do uh like just a little spikes in the middle. You could do it so it's combed down. It looks like it's wet. I'm going to just draw a crazy one. So I'm going to draw crazy hair. It's just kind of spikes everywhere. You can do whichever one you want. Checkers. That was awesome. All right okay. So now let's try the goggle uh straps on the side. We're just going to put two lines that come out the side. And two lines that come out the side over here. We're going to try and keep it easy. Nice and simple. We could put more details in there. I think there is. You could do a little line that comes down the side if you want. And that's this part will be silver like the goggles. And then this part will be brown or black. Good. That looks awesome. Okay now let's let's connect him down here. Let's start building his clothes okay. So we're going to draw a line in the middle that that curves. It's got a little curve to it. It's going to look like his mouth but it's not his mouth. So that's the top of his uh overalls. Good. Okay now we're going to draw this the uh the strap that comes down over his shoulders. So we're going to start at an angle. Come down and connect. And we can come a little further inside that line. And we're going to do it on both sides okay. Like that. Good. And then we're going to draw a little line down to the end of the strap. And then we're going to draw this strap back. It goes back over his shoulders. We'll do the same on this side. The strap that comes down. The end of the strap. And then go back over his shoulders. And we can put a little dot right in here for his button on both sides. Good job. Okay now we're going to come down off of uh we're going to imagine the front part of this overalls going behind the strap and then coming down. We'll do the same over here on this side. Good job. Okay now we're going to leave that alone. We're going to come over here. We're going to do his first arm. And we're going to just draw a curved line that comes down. And we could do a lot of different things with his arms right. We could make him coming up and waving. We could have him behind his back. And they're really easy to draw in different positions once you kind of figure out how to draw. Okay so on this side I'm going to draw his arm coming up. And I came a little too uh low with that line. This strap this line shouldn't be there. But that's okay. We're practicing right. So this arm is going to be up and I'm going to have him pointing. Good. Now we'll draw the inside of his arms. So we'll draw another line that comes over here. Down. And then the other side of this arm. Coming up. And ending at the same distance right there. Good job. That looks awesome. All right okay now let's draw the bottom part of his body. And we're so we're going to connect the arms. So we're going to come down. And then we're going to curl under. And I'm going to come over here and start curling this side too. And then we'll connect them down here at the bottom. Curve around all the way to the other side. We're almost done. Look at that. It looks so cool man. Keep going. Good job. All right and then we can end his uh overalls over here. And his arm on this side. And then the same on this side. Good job. All right let's get that pocket in there. He's got one pocket right in the middle. So we'll draw the top of the pocket. And then we'll connect each side with a big U. Like that. Okay now um we can put the G on there for the old movies right? So put a circle in the middle of this pocket. Okay and on the last on the on the old lesson that we did we we didn't do the G did we? Yeah. We left it off. Good job. Okay now let's do a diamond right in the middle of this. So we're gonna we can put a point there. A point here. A point on the side of each of the circle. And then connect those points. So we have a diamond right in the middle. Good job. And then right in the middle of that we're going to draw another circle. And it's going to get small. Or actually just draw a C. That's okay if you did the whole thing. And then we'll come back in. We got to do the G on this side. We're going to fill a little top. And we'll draw a line that goes across so that it looks like a G. Like that. So you could just draw a line that comes out of your circle. And that's okay. Good job. That looks awesome. And then let's draw and then let's color in the outside of that circle. But leave the G white. We did it. Looks awesome huh? Yeah. Pretty easy G. So next time you can practice you could not fill in that circle all the way. And then that'll let you get the part that goes in. That looks good though. I like it a lot. All right dude what should we draw next? Mouth. The mouth? Yeah. Okay. So with minions they have lots of different expressions right? And you could draw a mouth just like a straight line. You could do a little circle. You could also draw a smiley face. Or you could draw him like he's confused and like a frowny face. Like he's saying what? Yeah. All right. So I'm going to draw a little smile. And it's going to be off the side. So I'm going to draw like this off to the side. And then I'm going to draw also the bottom of his mouth like this. And then I'm going to draw his little teeth in there too. So I'm going to draw little U's that are in here like this. And then an upside down U here for the bottom. Oh I love it dude. He looks so confused. That looks awesome. That is a perfect minion expression. He's gone. He's really confused. All right. Now what should we draw? His arm. Or his hands? Yeah. Okay. So let's draw his first glove over here. We're going to draw a line that connects to the top of his arm. Okay. Then we're going to draw two lines on each side and they're coming in. And this is for the bottom part of his glove. Okay. Then we're going to draw an upside down six. It's kind of tricky. Come up here and we're going to circle around. And that's going to look like his thumb. And he's going to be pointing a finger up. Okay. Perfect. Okay. Now we're going to draw that finger that's coming up. And you only have three fingers right? Draw that first upside down U. First finger. Then we'll come back around. We're going to draw the other finger right here on the side. Then we can connect in that bottom glove. There's a little gap. Cool. Now if we ever go too fast in our videos, what can our friends do? Pause the video. Yes. You guys can always pause the video and then catch up. All right. Let's draw his other hand over here. Okay. So we're going to draw. I'm going to draw this a little bit longer. So it looks like he's because they have pretty long arms actually. And they kind of hang below their bodies. So now we're going to draw a line that connects this one. It's almost the same steps. And then we'll draw those two lines that come in for the glove. Good job. Okay. Now we're going to come down and we'll do one curl. It's kind of a J. All right. And then we're going to draw another curl right here. We'll come back in. Good. And then we'll draw his little thumb right here. Perfect. That looks so good. All right. Okay. Now let's draw his legs. We've got little pants that stick out down here. So I'm going to draw one line here that comes right below his, this line on his overalls. And then another line on this side for the other side of his leg. That'll get our, help us get our spacing right. And then on the inside, we're going to draw two more lines that are kind of close together like that inside of his legs. And then we'll connect those, these lines at the bottom. We've got his pants. All right. Okay. Now let's draw his shoes. We've got a little hook on this side and a hook on this side. Good. You went all the way around and that's okay. That's all right. Keep going. And then I'm going to draw his heels on this side. I'll do it kind of like how you did it. How about that? Come back around. Good. And then we're going to draw, we're going to connect these both sides. And then it kind of looks like they're wearing dress shoes. So we're going to put a little heel or a sole on the bottom of his shoes like this on each side. Like that. Okay. We're missing one little thing we could put his pockets. We got little pockets on the side right here. Hey, we're done, dude. Good job, man. Give me five. Did you have fun? Yeah. Should we color him? Yeah. He's going to look way cooler if he's yellow. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's pick out our colors. Okay. Okay. All right, checkers. We got our colors picked out, but we forgot one thing. We got to do some eyelids, huh? Yeah. So a lot of times with the minions, you can see their eyelids just coming over the top of their eyes. So I'm going to do one over here and one on this side like that. And you could also do some eyelids on the bottom, but I'm just going to, I think I'm going to leave it like that. And you could use the eyelids to make them do different expressions too, right? So if you wanted to make him look really angry, you could make those eyelids coming down really far. Or with your really confused one, you could also do one, you could do like an eyelid that came really low over his eye. Awesome. All right, dude. So we got our colors picked out and we got light gray. We got a black, a blue, brown, and a yellow. And we're not going to do a whole lot of crazy shading. We're just going to color it in nice and solid. So we'll fast forward the whole thing and our art friends can pause it at the end to check out how we color it. Okay. You ready to start? Yeah. Let's do it right here. Checkers, good job, man. It looks super awesome. Give me five. You did a good job, dude. You could be really proud of that minion. He looks really confused. I think it's fun when you're drawing minions because you can mix and match all the different parts. With the two eyes or the one eyes, you could draw them really tall. You draw them really, really short too. That's one that we could do. And we can also draw their hands and their expressions looking different and their hair looking different. We could also draw a bunch of minions all together on one piece of paper. We could turn it this way. We draw him a lot smaller and we could do three of them like from the movie, right? Yeah. So we could draw a really tall one with two eyes. We draw a really short one with two eyes and then kind of a medium with one eye. That'd be awesome. Yeah. Yeah. We'll leave a link in the description of this video where you can hop over to the official minion website and you can use that as a reference so you can draw the three from the main movie. That'd be cool. Yeah. Yeah. We hope you guys had a lot of fun and we'll see you later, our friends. Goodbye.