This tutorial will help you learn how to draw a cartoon mummy! The mummy, a mythical creature originally from Egypt, is a dead body that, in fictional stories, rises from the grave in search of revenge.
Since the mummy is very often drawn wrapped in strips of cloth (linen) around its body, this is exactly what we will try to do in this ancient and scary tutorial!
Let's start the tutorial by drawing a medium-sized circle to represent the head of our Egyptian friend. Then add two rectangles below the head (look at the picture for a more detailed view) to create both arms.
Add a circle at each end of both arms for the brushes. Draw two oval shapes on the face to form the eyes.
Since our mummy is old and walks slowly, we will draw a body slightly tilted and curved. Draw a rectangle to create this solid. As you can see in the example, the body is tall and the neck is invisible in this position. Draw a circle to form your character's thigh. Finally, draw a long rectangle to form the left leg.
At the end of this leg, draw a small rectangle to create the left foot. Draw the right leg using two rectangles (you have no choice as this part of the body is curved in this picture). You can also draw the right foot using two rectangles.
Time to add some stripes to our terrifying character! Working on the head of the mummy, paint her eyes more carefully. They must look crazy and furious!
Add some stripes on the arms. Feel free to play with the length of the strip. Your mummy will only look more impressive this way! You can sketch out a couple of fingers to make your character look more threatening!
Last but not least, make all the stripes remaining on the body and legs of your mummy. Remember to keep your character's back curved and tilted.
Add some color to your work and you're done! You can always use several different tones to create dark areas in your character. This will improve the readability of your drawing.
Notice how the legs and arms on the back of the picture are darker. I also added subtle, darker tones near the mummy's neck so that the head stands out better. Congratulations! I hope you have fun drawing this funny cartoon mummy!
Today we will fight against the mercenary Moomin corporation. You can draw a huge number of your own moomies and not buy tiny and boring pictures for nightmarish money. You can paint on paper, stone, fabric, glass, porcelain, wood, metal - anywhere; special paints are sold for all this.
Drawing on paper will not be as interesting for you as on canvas. If you're on the verge of playing an artist, go to a specialty store and buy one small canvas. The canvases are sold already primed and stretched over the frame. I paint with acrylics and fake brushes because they are ethical.
There are a few things to learn before you start drawing:
It is best to paint in daylight. Or under a white light lamp.
- Brushes should be washed very well and immediately. Or at least keep them in a jar of water until you wash them.
- White is the most important color. We must try to preserve the whiteness of the canvas and paint by adding white to the paints.
- What is in the foreground should be brighter.
- The paints must be mixed until an even color and in large quantities - otherwise the paint may not be enough.
- Black and gold contours save in the most hopeless situations.
Where to get the plot.
From the Internet and books. Any picture you like can be:
a) translated through glass onto thin paper using a lamp and transferred to canvas through carbon paper
b) printed on a printer and translated through a carbon copy
c) drawn by cells
c) for the laziest - just bend the edge of the picture and put dots where the outlines are. Then you can connect the contours.
A long time ago, artists pricked outlines with a needle and applied dots to the canvas with black powder.
For simply drawing what you want, take a close look at the subject. In painting, the exact copying of the object is not very important. It is important to convey your own emotional state. And for accuracy, a camera was invented.
Draw some moomins and the question of outlines will be removed. You will learn. Because there is only one way to draw these fabulous creatures. All lines are justified by the character of the character, which you will certainly feel.
Little Mu
Look at the different pictures of the mu crumb. Try to understand what changes from picture to picture and what the artist is trying to convey through these changes.
Many people ask how to draw the correct baby Mu's head. Look around and find an oval-shaped object that you can circle around. I found a cardboard box from a former mirror. It can be given any desired shape.
Line accuracy is not that important.
How to draw hair:
Of course, I don't draw the grid when I draw. Here I have divided the face into four vertical and four horizontal parts. The inner squares of the second strip from the top are split in half. Try to do the same and draw straight lines - the upper and side outlines of baby Mu's eyes.
Drawing the eye from below, notice that usually in the portraits of the baby Mu, the lateral parts of the eye are slightly widened.
Only the eye on the right of your monitor is good for this baby.
The nose of all muml, including Snusmumrik and Myumla, is drawn in relation to the eyes. In many mules, the wings of the nose are almost parallel to the right and left eyes, the bottom of the nose is most often a straight line. Little Mu is a sample for drawing any Mumla. In a hat and a cloak - this is Sna, with a joyful face, eyelashes and light green eyes - Mumla with many children.
Here's everything you need to know about emotions:
Satisfied:
Little Mu is angry in most of the pictures. Now cry or bite:
The previous and two subsequent pictures show options for a bow, tie or mule scarf. If you draw Myumlu standing sideways, do not forget that on the back of her dress there are buttons from top to bottom.
Bow and scarf:
We start drawing the dress:
Arms. Ukrainian motives:
As you can imagine, dress, legs, arms - all this can be drawn arbitrarily or you can do without them altogether. The main thing about this character is a recognizable face.
I like to draw a dress with pleats more:
Boots:
Now the idea of the picture. It's just that little Mu is boring. Let our Baby think about her childhood. Here she is sitting in a box for small children:
Coloring. These are the colors for Baby. You can also see a waterproof outline pen.
In my opinion, the best thing you can think of with little Mu is "Mumla's Children in Moomin's Kitchen":
Moomin troll
When I’m once again asked to draw a picture with moomins, it always seems to me that people are asking them to cheat. Handing over the drawing of a Moomin troll to someone else is like asking someone to have sex instead of yourself or to eat the most delicious cake on earth. This is giving up a very interesting life.
We will draw the Moomin troll from the painting "The Conductor's Baton". The rest do not inspire me today.
The already familiar cardboard circle changes its shape to a pear-shaped one:
The near ear should be larger:
Eye search:
We put points at the intersection of the lines:
and erase auxiliary lines:
My eyes never work out for me personally. Because in order to draw two identical ovals, you have to study for a very long time. And I'm a lazy person. The near eye should be larger. In order not to be mistaken with proportions and perspective, at first you just need to more accurately redraw the sample that you have chosen for the picture.
Try to sketch out the outlines of the body. Draw some light lines. Some of them will surely suit you, seem like the mummies of your dreams.
By increasing the size of the head, torso and abdomen, you can draw different moomins. Adult Moomin trolls are larger.
Add an arm and legs:
It's time to come up with a plot. Moomin cannot stagger around. What is he looking at? By the way, he has a tail.
If you add bangs, a gold bracelet and beads, you get Fröken Snork. But personally, I don't like this kind of fröken Snork. Therefore, I draw it in different ways. On the 8th March picture, for example, there is a procession of radical feminists. Fryoken is depicted with a red mohawk, an earring in her ear and a black dress, and her golden ring flies away on a ball. Little Mu carries flyers about the legalization of same-sex marriage, Moominmama protests against kitchen slavery and the dominance of men. Etc.
On the last large canvas there is a bracelet on Moomin's leg:
But this is how you can make the stereotypical Froken Snork:
If you add a hat and a cane - you get a moomin dad, an apron - a mom, glasses - a Snork. In the next picture, all Moomin attributes (only Snork flew by) on one Moomin troll:
Now Moomin gets the pitcher. He will water the flower:
In this case, it is enough just to outline the Moomin troll. This is a photograph of two of our drawings before erasing the pencil paths. It is not worth erasing the contours right away. We must wait until the paints dry out and the outline hardens.
Here is the final Moomin. The contours are slightly distorted in the photo. They should be flat. True, I rarely get even ones :)
The ability to draw Moomins forever relieves you from the need to think about a gift to familiar children and about how to decorate the walls of your own children's room.
After looking at the drawing in the example, pay attention to the location of the limbs, as well as the types and lengths of the lines with which they are drawn. Note that the bandages of the mummy are drawn with wavy lines to better convey the volume of the body. Curved lines on the character's body give the impression of being under the bandages of muscles.
The image of the mummy must be built around the frame.
So, without pressing, draw a circle of the head at an angle. Add a chin to it and put a cross in place of the face. From the chin, draw down the curved line of the spine, and draw an oval at its base. Sketch the lines for the legs at a slight angle, as well as the outlines of the slightly turned inward feet. Under the chin, draw a circle for the chest and a transverse shoulder line. Draw a line for your left hand and a raised palm. Draw a curved line for the right arm over the oval of the chest with the palm facing down.
Pay special attention to the character's musculature. Starting at the head, draw a curved body outline from the outside of the armature. Add eye sockets on both sides of the cross. Sketch out the features of the nose and bared mouth. Pressing lightly on the pencil, draw bandages all over the mummy's body. Draw their fluttering ends, as well as the fingers.
Use a blacker stroke to define the outline of the body and facial features. Pressing lightly on the pencil, shade along the outlines the shape of the mummy. In the background, again without using the pencil, draw the moon and clouds behind the character's shape. Draw a large and small pyramid, which should be in line with the hills. As soon as you finish painting the background, your mummy will come to life and set off to scare people!
How to draw a chibi mummy step by step
First, use an oblong shape to draw the base for the head, and then add a horizontal arc in the middle of the face. Then draw the body as a trapezoid. Draw the head that you outlined before. The line should be strong and clear.
Now draw circles for the shape of the eyes, and make sure they are thick enough. After that, depict the openings of the nose and the open mouth. Start drawing the left side of the mummy's body - the upper and lower limbs, the left side of the body.
The lines of the bandages on the mummy's body should be uneven, but neat enough.
Next, draw the right side of the body, which also includes the arm, leg and body parts. Erase the guidelines and misplaced lines, as you will need to draw the wrapper in the form of bandages and bandages right now. So, just wrap the bandage lines around the mummy.
That's all, your drawing is ready. Now you can color it and then show the work to your friends to please and surprise them.