How to Draw Mini Figures

One of the great things about mini figures is the way the characters are exaggerated. Heads become gigantic, bodies become squat and silly looking, and the mouths and eyes usually take up the entire face with wild expressions. Drawing a mini figure is basically like turning a human into a cartoon character. For the example in this article, you will learn how to draw a crazed warrior mini figure. However, the techniques in this article can be used to draw any type of mini figure you can imagine.

Things You'll Need

• Paper
• Pencil
• Black ink pen
• Kneaded eraser
• Markers in beige, gray, green, orange, brown and black

Instructions

1. 

   Draw the character's head with a circle. Draw the shoulders with two circles on the bottom left and right side of the head. Attach a curved line to the bottom of each shoulder. Add two small circles, side by side under the head. Draw the shaft of the hammer with a straight line coming out of the left and right side of the hands. Draw the head of the hammer with a square on the left end of the hammer shaft. Attach a rectangle to the top of the square to complete the hammer.

2. Draw the legs with two diagonal lines coming out from the under the hands. Draw the knees with two small circles at the end of the legs. Add the feet with a triangle under each knee.

3. 

   Draw a cross shape on the face to mark where the facial details will go. Add a small rectangle on the top of the head. Draw a tuft of hair coming out of the top of the head. Do this by drawing a triangular shape coming off the head, pointing up and to the left. Add five smaller triangular points to the triangular shape. Draw the shoulder armor with a triangle over each shoulder circle. Add three small triangles to the top of the right-hand side shoulder armor.

4. 

   Draw the eyes with two diagonally tilted half-circle shapes on the horizontal line of the facial guideline. Make the tops of the eyes flat and the bottoms round. Add the eyebrows with a parallel line above each eye. Draw the teeth with a rectangle just below the eyes. Curve the rectangle up on both ends. Draw four vertical lines and one horizontal line in the middle of the rectangle to show the teeth. Draw the ears with two curved lines on the upper left and right of the head. Draw the pupils with two small circles inside the eyes.

5. 

   Draw the fingers on the left-side hand with two short vertical lines starting at the top of the hand circle. Add the fingers on the right-side hand with two vertical lines starting at the bottom of the hand circle. Erase any guidelines you no longer need. Trace the entire drawing with the black ink pen. Let the ink dry, and erase all of your pencil lines with the kneaded eraser.

6. 

   Color the skin and hands of the character beige. Color the chest, shoulders and hammer gray. Color the boots and the shaft of the hammer brown. Use black for the hair on top of the head and orange for trim around the shoulders, the three triangular shoulder spikes and the band for the ponytail.

Tips & Warnings

• You can make a photocopy of the line work in Step 5, and try out different colors and paint schemes without messing up your original.

• Place a sheet of paper under your illustration when you ink and color it so the ink doesn't bleed through the page.

Resources

• Check out some mini figures of The Simpsons.