How to Paint a Mime With a Mustache

Add a mustache to a mime with Windows Paint.

For mimes, silent communication is a must. Mimes often communicate with their facial features, from bulging eyes to frowning mouths. Although mimes are usually heavily made up with the white face that so defines their profession, occasionally facial hair sprouts through that façade. Draw your own mime with a mustache using Windows Paint. Paint’s graphic features let you create your own non-speaking creature and “grow” facial hair without the long wait.

Things You'll Need

• Windows Paint

Instructions

1. Open Windows Paint. Click the “Brushes” button and select the first option, “Brush.” Paint the outline of the mime’s face, which may be an oval for thinner mimes or a more round shape for portlier mimes.

2. Click the white square, directly below the black one, in the “Colors” portion of the ribbon. Click the paint bucket icon in the “Tools” portion of the ribbon and click inside the mime’s face. While you can’t see it because Paint’s canvas appears white, the canvas is actually transparent. This white coloring gives the mime his true white face. If you were to skip this step, your actual mime image would be transparent, not white.

3. Switch back to the paintbrush. Click the “Size” button and choose the top line. Draw the mime’s eyes, nose and, if desired, eyebrows, though eyebrows are often covered by the thick white mime pancake makeup.

4. Select the red square in the “Colors” section. Choose the second-from-the-bottom line on the “Size” button. Draw the mime’s mouth, which may be a thick up-curving smile or a down-arced frown.

5. Click the black square for the black paint. Switch the “Size” back to the thinnest line. Click the “Brushes” button on the ribbon. Choose “Natural pencil.” Draw in the mime’s mustache by clicking and dragging the cursor in an up-and-down motion above the mime’s upper lip. The paint appears in a more feathery appearance than thick, solid lines. Draw a simple left-to-right mustache or something more complicated such as the twirly “villain”-like handlebar mustache.

6. Click the Paint button’s drop-down menu. Choose “Save As.” Type a name for the mustachioed-mime image and click the “Save” button.

References

• Windows: Using Paint