How to Draw Maggie Simpson With a Gun

Maggie Simpson has been relatively silent but incredibly critical to the Simpson's storyline. She has shot Mr. Burns, saved the family countless times and even once almost joined the Flanders clan. Drawing Maggie Simpson can be fairly easy if you break the illustration down into its most basic shapes. For the example in this article, you will be drawing Maggie Simpson holding a handgun. This pose is a sort of homage to Maggie's gunning down of the vile Mr. Burns. If you are a Simpson's fan this illustration will look great on your wall.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Paper
• Pencil
• Black ink pen
• Eraser
• Yellow marker
• Baby Blue marker
• Pink marker
• Gray marker
• Brown marker

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   Draw a large oval for Maggie's head. Add two circles inside the oval near the right-hand side of the head for the eyes. Make sure these two circles slightly overlap. Add another oval directly under the head for Maggie's body. Add the right arm with a line extending from her body. Add the hand with a small circle. Add the left arm with an upside down and sideways "L" shape. Draw her dress with a triangular shape coming out of the base of the body.

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   Create Maggie's characteristic hair with 8 triangles around her head. Add two small dots inside the eyes for pupils. Draw Maggie's nose directly under the eyes with a sideways "U" shape. Add the guideline for Maggie's pacifier with a circle below her nose. Attach a diagonal "U" shape to the middle of the pacifier.

3. Thicken the arms by drawing parallel lines around the arm guidelines. Add 4 fingers to the right hand with small upside down "U" shapes. Add 3 knuckles to the left hand with small bumps protruding from the bottom side of the circle. Draw the guideline for the gun with a square directly above Maggie's left hand. Attach a rectangle to the the side of the square for the gun's barrel. Add a curved line to the bottom of the square that curves toward Maggie's hand. Add another curved line that comes off the back of the square and continues to the arm.

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   Draw Maggie's eyelashes with 3 slightly curved lines coming off the top of each eye. Add a small bow above her eyes with two small, sideways triangles. Place a small circle in between these two triangles. Add Maggie's ear with a reversed "C" shape below and to the left of her eyes.

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   Erase all of your guidelines and leave behind only the pencil lines you wish to keep. Ink the entire drawing. Let the ink dry and carefully erase the pencil lines.

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   Color Maggie's skin yellow. Color her outfit baby blue as well as her bow. Color her pacifier pink. Use gray for the gun. You can add a wooden handle to the gun by coloring the handle brown.

Tips & Warnings

• All Simpson's character's share basic characteristics. Once you create the basic face of a Simpson's character you can add details to change them into practically any character.
• Be sure to wait for the ink to dry before you erase the pencil lines or the illustration will smudge.

Resources

• The character guide for Maggie at the Simpson Archive