Speaker: I am Peter Shin. I am the Supervising Director of Family Guy. I am going to show you how to draw Stewie. Here I go.
First, you want to think about his football-shaped head, so I am working in construction lines first, before I clean it up, so what you want to do is draw like an arc like that and draw a line type bisecting it. If you have hard time drawing the football shape it's okay to start with a circle line first, and do the outer edges like that and now you have football shape.
After that, you want to indicate where the middle part is, that's where his nose is going to go, and now I am putting his eyes, like that. It is away from his, the middle, point here, there, and then you indicate where the nose goes, its right below the centerline and that's where his mouth is. And you're thinking about the expression you want to go and Stewie's eyebrows is straight so you want to keep them straight, down like that. They are not curvy, and body wise, his body length is almost same as his head size, so you measure where that is, then you draw the body in. His legs, his feet, and now I am thinking about what his arms going to be doing. If he is like saying hi, or waving like this. And then, maybe I'll decide to put his arms down, his ears.
So now you've got basic construction down, what I usually do is, cut another sheet paper over this. And you can see the construction underneath this paper, and now I'm going to start cleaning it up. I usually start with the eyes. Here's the circle, and the nose, eyebrows, ears Then, think about where his eyes are going to go, I'll just write here like that, then he has eyelid so usually he has double lids like this, which are slanted towards the middle, his arms, his very short arms.
Since I have a construction down underneath, it's easier for me to draw the final clean up this way. It's harder for me to start off drawing, cleaned up drawings. Not that I got pretty much this whole character done, I would start putting his hair. I can start from the middle, and the side ones and then start filling them in. And we can take the drawing out and there you have it. Here is the final drawing of Stewie.
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