How To Draw Maggie Simpson

We're going to draw Maggie and although she's quite small, we're going to draw her slightly bigger, so therefore, it's actually easier for you to see. So, we're going to start with the eyes again. All the Simpson's have exactly the same eyes, so by the time you've drawn three or four of them, you start to get the hang out it.

So, you just come out on the eyes again, leaving room for the nose. Any difference can make it easier. She has a smaller nose, so you want to come out from there and then join the eye back onto that because otherwise if you put the nose like the other Simpson's, it's going to look far too big because she's only a baby.

And we put some dots in the middle like that. We put the eyelashes on. Now, instead of doing them later, it's just some straight lines; makes her eyes look nice and wide.

She's got a dummy in her mouth so that's quite easy, really, it's easier than drawing the mouth itself because you only need to draw just a circle just below the nose which is going to represent the dummy. And in that, if you just put a little line coming slightly out of the circle that you've drawn, just do like a little half circle and that bit there that makes the top of the dummy. Now, from the dummy which comes down to the bottom of her face, you want to make like a line coming out here which is going to be like the chin and then you come up and out which is going to be towards her ear and that's a little "c" just like with the other Simpsons.

Most of the bits on each character are really virtually the same. The hair, you've already drawn Lisa's hair maybe, so if you come out and you just follow it around in a star shape, it really doesn't need to be exactly really as long as you come around roughly in the shape of the face, you can't really go wrong. Now, you want to come around, I'll do one more, and then we are going to come down, alright.

I'll do one more again; that's a bit better. Then you come down to the side of the face and just join that one there. Now, she's got a bow in her hair so we're going to put that in now.

So, you do a little circle here, centered in the middle of her eyes and you come up and you put the bow in and thicken it up. And that is the shape of Maggie's face. For her body, we're going to do both her arms out to the side as if she's crawling along and she's trying to get a little bit of balance.

So we're going to come down two straight lines coming off of the neck, you're going to come down and just a straight line at the bottom. We'll do the hand in a minute. So, for the body, you're going to come sort of out and it doesn't matter because her clothes are sort of baggy, so if the line doesn't look quite straight, it doesn't really matter and you come along on the bottom and then a little bit of her clothes that sort of drags along behind her.

And then you come back up and leave a little bit of room for the bottom and back up to the arm like that. Alright, the other arm is coming out upwards. So, we are going to come out from the top of her clothes here, just below her chin and we're going to come up and out like that.

The hands are quite easy. So if we just do the thumb coming out here like that, and the fingers, you can either do them spread apart so they would come out as the hand opens like that, or it's easier probably to put them together like this. So if you come up and you come around as though she is wearing mittens and once you've done that, you can literally draw lines in the middle that represents her fingers.

Only put in two because she has a three-fingered hand rather than four fingers and we go back to the other hand. We do this one the other way with the fingers apart to give you an idea so you can draw both, so if you come around on the thumb and we're going to come up for the top finger here. For this one, you're going to do a sort of half wavy or curvy line and then this comes around and joins onto the hand and that is going to be th