How-To Draw Mickey’s Pal, Pluto | Walt Disney World

Hello everyone, my name is Brian Fitchner and I am an artist here at the animation academy at the magic of Disney animation at the Disney studios in Hollywood and here at the studios we have dozens of characters that we

draw

here, including the classics five fabulous that would be

mickey

minnie donald goofy and

pluto

and today I'm going to show you how to

draw

pluto

so we're going to start of course with our circle we want to warm up that shoulder so if you can you can achieve shoulder rotation. The only way you can make a perfect circle is to achieve shoulder rotation, keep everything stationary other than that, and just rotate it.

Practice a little like this. Now you want to keep your lines very, very light to start. We're going to write those basic lines, so we're going to start with a circle the size of a baseball or an orange and we're going to place it right in the middle of our page, we're just going to circle it a few times saying the key to a good repetition of circles so we can fixing your flat spots, your indentations, anything that turns it into not a circle, it's not easy to make a perfect circle from the beginning, the key is to just learn to fix it until it becomes a perfect circle then we need guidelines, the guidelines Of course, they are there to tell us where to place the character pieces, like eyes, nose, mouth, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, we need to know where the center of his head is which will be facing left. so I'm going to make a curved guide forming a crescent moon on the inside of your circle, a small horizontal guide that curves at the bottom of your circles, if it were a ball, now we want to measure a little, we'll use our index finger on miniature and we can measure from the left side to the right side of the circle, we get the width like this and we'll just slide so that our index finger touches the side of the circle where our thumb lands, we can make a little mark that will help us know how far it will go its snout and we can draw a little line there if that helps too, so what we're going to do is from where this horizontal guide touches the circle, I'm just going to draw a very light line that goes into that line there.

I'm going to draw essentially a half circle curving down and back, running into the inside of the circle about a quarter of the way down, so run backwards. On that guide line again, this just gives us the area where the snout will be. Now to draw the wrinkles on the top of the snout, we're going to start just to the right of the center guide line right here on the horizon when you draw a little curve that will go just outside the circle on that straight line, then we'll draw a second one that It goes from the bottom of the circle and it will stay on that same line one more time, then a third, everything stays straight and then we'll do a fourth, the thing about the fourth is we're actually going to continue this upwards.

I'm going to make a curve above the guide line and then go down to the guides here where you drew that straight line and that half. circle that is the top of the snout and we're going to go ahead and draw the nose on it. His nose is an oval. If you're not sure how to draw an oval, simply draw a circle incorrectly that will be half inside and half outside. that muzzle right up here, a little bit to the side, now we can go back to that first wrinkle on the muzzle or the muzzle. The whole area can also be called the snout and we are going to draw a small curve that goes above the line. and running towards the guide line just on the other side of this line, right there, which is actually his cheek, then right on the guide line, following the same curve as the cheek above, we have a little dimple in the corner of his mouth right there, and then what we're going to do is go back to the middle of the nose, just down, a little bit lower, we can be lined up in front of this line right here, I'm going to curve down a little bit and then I'm going to go straight, flatten out and go up to the middle of that dimple that gives us the top of the mouth and then we can just run over here and drag this line to that line that gives us the full part. top of his snout, all right, let's look at his bottom lip, he's got a little bit of an underbite, so I'm going to push this bottom lip to the front and then we're going to curve it back a little bit gently. curve there almost like a very shallow question mark, then from there we can follow this line that connects to the bottom lip right there, just follow that semicircle that we drew and once it gets here I'm going to curve a little bit. and the curve back running towards the bottom of the circle gives a little more curvature and gives us a chin.

Now we can take the time to darken a little bit and we're actually going to go further and darken the first outline of the nose now that he's a puppy, he has a wet puppy nose, so the light reflects off that nose, like this that we can show that with a little flash of light on the top little oval at the top of the nose and then go ahead and turn our pencil to the side, use it like a brush and shade across that nose the faster you shave the side of the pencil, the smoother your surface will be, you'll never really want to use a tip when you're shading the only thing. what it will do is frustrate you, you will look really bad forever when you finish, you will break the pencil and give yourself carpal tunnel, so to avoid all that use the side of the pencil, the faster the tone the better it will look and it also doesn't require it requires too much skill, you can just grab a pencil to wave your arm back and forth and as long as you touch the paper you will create a smooth surface, it's that easy, people tend to think too much about shading, they will go in with the tip of the pencil Spend 10 minutes just stuffing your nose to lift the paper.

The key is you just don't want to think about it, you just want to fly through it and it's going to look fantastic, so let's go ahead and just darken the lines that we made for the snout, just get all those nice solid ones, so Pluto actually made his first appearance in September 1930 in a cartoon called The Chain Gang, it was a Mickey Mouse cartoon and Pluto actually played um. two different hounds that were sent after

mickey

who had just escaped from prison because mickey was a bad boy and in his second appearance he actually appeared as minnie's dog and had the name rover and then according to the cartoon hunting for The moose actually decided to change its name to Pluto because the big news at that time in the newspapers was that scientists discovered the existence of a new planet, of course it has been downgraded since then, so they changed its name to Pluto .

Also in the cartoon, the elk hunt, Pluto actually talks. and he says kiss me, which was widely considered a huge mistake and they never did it again. Instead, they created his talking dog later, a couple of years later, with Goofy. Okay, let's give them some whiskers, some little points with short hairs. on the ends, make sure they're short, he's a dog, not a cat, pluto is actually a bloodhound, and we're going to go ahead and we're going to put the eyes in place, so we're going to use the center guide line here and I'm going to draw a curve that goes up to the top of the circle and then I'm going to shoot towards the cheek that gives us an eye now because his head is turned towards us, that means everything that is on the left side of the guide line is further away, so we're going to go about a quarter of the way down the eye and draw a little curve that runs just outside the circle and gives us a slightly smaller eye that's perspective. the things in the foreground are bigger than the things in the background, which looks smaller and we get the eyebrows to follow the same curve as the top of the eye, so we just hook on top of the eye there and hook on top of this eye here and we can pencil pupils little egg shapes and you want to make this very, very light because we're going to go behind the cheek with this one, you still want to draw the whole shape, although sometimes if you get lazy and just try to make a boat . a semicircle or something like that, it's going to look weird, like his eye is a square, so you're going to want to draw everything there and here we draw a little hook shape.

You want to make sure you eliminate that curve. Also from the side of the eye we can jump and darken those things with the pupils. You can add a little flash of light inside, just add a little bit of life to them, just a little ball of light and then move on. forward and shadow in those pupils around the brightness of the light, okay, we have his ears on the side, his ears are long and stretched, letter u shapes, I like it if you took a letter and stretched it like a candy, so I What we're going to do is we're going to start right on the inside of the circle, right here we can draw a little curve that goes down like a very shallow kind of s-shaped curve, you don't want to make the ear too long because we don't want them to trip. with it and we add thickness to the end and then we get thinner as we put it together.

You can add a little bit of muscle that holds that ear in place, just a little U shape behind it and then you can do it once you're happy. by darkening it, your other ear is going to rise above your head, so we're going to start from behind the eye right here because that's where the ears actually meet, so it's going to rise right above the eyebrow right here and it's going to Para drawing an upward curve should be aligned above the nose, we can drop it and make a kind of U shape, almost like it's waving at us with its ear in a U shape and then we'll curve back and become thinner as we come together.

In fact, we can add thickness to this ear, almost making it look like a tongue, by simply tracing the top curve of the ear, curving inward, like this, going down a little bit more, curving down, going back to that shape that you drew, which gives. We have a lot of thickness, almost like you can squish it once you have it, you can go ahead and shade those ears also remember you're using the shadow side of the pencil very, very quickly, you don't have to be. too precise or exact with that is a quick sketch on the back of his hand has a bump is a bump on the brain all the hounds have it all real hounds all the fake hounds both he and Goofy have it Goofy is just covered with his hat and so we're just going to start from the back and draw a little shallow bump on the back of his head.

If you want to keep it close to the back of the circle, don't make it too big and you can trace it back. We want to make it look like that bump is actually attached to the back of your head, so we do that by just pulling a little bit on the circle at the top and a little bit at the bottom and you can move it towards your ear so now we can continue with this line he can go very slightly behind that ear and curve down, we get his neck, the other side of his neck is attached at the bottom guide line where it touches the circle, so you just lightly draw across his snout so you can come out right here you take the other side of the neck we can show a little bit of the neck with me as low as I am on the paper it's actually going to come out of course this whole body is going to be off the paper So we'll just see a little bit from the top of the neck, but it will go from the back of the neck, curve down into a large U shape, and come back up.

You can trace it back, that gives us a chance to really finish this attachment to his neck because his neck is not just floating there, position his body, so we draw a little curve for the body and we can draw kind of a parallel curve to this U shape starting from behind the neck and curving running out of the paper, it is important that if you run out of space you just run out of paper, it will always look better to run out of paper than to try to tear it up there or give them a little collar just to make make it fit and then we can see that the back of the necklace should be right there next to the ear, the other side, if you have room, would be right below it and from behind the ear you can place the other side of the necklace there. you guys got it, uh, you can go ahead and sign your drawing, always sign your drawing so everyone knows whose masterpiece it is, you guys got it, a very, very quick lesson on how to draw the one and only Pluto.