Watch Me Draw Hitler…

January 4th, 2006 | Categories: Before & After, Character Design, General, How to Draw, Illustration, Video Tutorials | Tags:

Although like every other intelligent person on the planet I despise everything Adolf Hitler ever stood for. Subject aside, I think it turned out to be a nice caricature. Since it was such a simple design I thought I'd record the process of finalizing the art. Enjoy the process, not the subject.... Cheers.

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  1. Phil
    January 6th, 2006 at 11:49
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    What an odd drawing program you’re using. What is that?!

  2. January 7th, 2006 at 14:07
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    Hi, newish reader. That’s a great design–I’d love to see him animated. (But not re-animated, if you know what I mean.) When I’ve done digital “inking” it’s been with Anchor points and the Pen tool in Photoshop. I should give Flash inking a try, I think.

    Thanks for sharing; I love your stuff.

  3. Lee V
    January 14th, 2006 at 11:51
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    Wonderful! I love these little movies of yours. I could watch them all day. You’re magic!

    Thanks, again,

    Lee

  4. nadine
    January 17th, 2006 at 09:58
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    wow thats so well drawn but i have to ask what program you use?

  5. January 18th, 2006 at 15:15
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    cool!

  6. January 18th, 2006 at 16:08
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    Hi Brad!

    Impressive! I didn’t realize all that could be done in Flash:)

  7. January 19th, 2006 at 11:12
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    Very Neat! What program did you use to create the illustration?

  8. January 22nd, 2006 at 10:23
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    Sir,

    Surely you could have selected someone better than Hitler.

  9. January 22nd, 2006 at 20:46
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    well hitler is a funny charcter to draw..
    thanks for sharing your technique. what program did you use btw?

  10. January 24th, 2006 at 02:10

    impressive to see how an illustrator works. how something can go from nothing to complete in just a matter of moments.

  11. January 26th, 2006 at 15:38

    Oh that?s pretty much like how I do stuff in flash. What I like about is: You do vector art in flash. People will always look strange at you when you tell them you use Flash for vector art. They will be like ?Hu? Flash? I use Freehand/Illustrator? and I am like ?vectors are vectors so it doesn?t matter which program you use?
    So yeh what I am trying so say: It?s always nice to see other people that also use Flash for vector art and not Illustrator like nearly everybody.

  12. January 28th, 2006 at 13:30

    I always love to look at your website/blog and I always like to get a peek into other peoples sctechbooks, etc. But that was very cool!! Thanks for sharing with everyone!

  13. Fitz
    January 28th, 2006 at 15:38

    I use Flash for all my illustration. Thanks for all the great comments guys! Looks like I should get cranking on my next one.. :)

  14. Dan
    January 30th, 2006 at 13:52

    im new to this, where can i get `flash` from?? get back to me

  15. February 24th, 2006 at 20:28

    I really enjoyed it do it again some time.

  16. Keks
    March 1st, 2006 at 08:29

    The drawing program is really good and you painted really quickly!!
    But why hitler??????!!!!!!!

  17. motuika
    March 1st, 2006 at 12:56

    Flash is a software from Macromedia. it’s mainly used for animation/webdesign…
    although its quite expensive, you can get it from http://www.macromedia.com;
    the newest version is: Flash Professional 8

  18. March 4th, 2006 at 15:16

    Serdar Somuncu would love this drawing.

  19. matt the ninja
    March 8th, 2006 at 14:22

    wow. the application of that program was is a job well done. I, atrocious and haneous acts he comitted aside, love drawing Hitler. Turning him into a zombie makes me happy and the sense of dread i feel looking at him intrigues me. Cheers to you for sharing your art.

  20. Mr. Hilter
    March 9th, 2006 at 19:44

    Hrrrrr… This is a very nice F?hrer, indeed. Hrrr, not much fun in Stalingrad, hrrrrrr. Mor Lebensraum please

  21. March 11th, 2006 at 00:58

    fitz, only one of the guys in teh comments had an issue with the swatika. he just didn’t get it. the others arte making fun of him.

    here’s the translation:

    “one of eherensenf’s points is to fight against the picture of the ‘evil german’in the world. for example that of artist brad fitzpatrick. oooookay, he’s just showing his visitors how he illustrates drawings on his computer. and that is pretty interesting, like the rest of his homepage.”

    that’s it.

    cheers
    uli

  22. March 11th, 2006 at 01:01

    omg, one just shouldn’t post comments at six in the morning, after a night out and a few beers to many …

  23. Mickey!
    April 9th, 2006 at 20:17

    That is an awesome looking program that you used. I am very curious as to what it is called. Can someone inform me on that, cause i would love to try it out!

  24. Mark
    April 27th, 2006 at 07:46

    Amazing!!!!!!

    Is there anyway you could give me some pointers, or a little help, i use flash at uni and im crap at it!! i would like to know how to use a scanned imagie as an outline?? Thanks, Mark

  25. May 8th, 2006 at 19:31

    wow, i never knew someone could do something like that! it was amazing i wish i could draw as good as you! how do you get your inspiration? i can never think of something to draw from my mind! i wish i will be as good as you some day! please give me some tips and pointers! i think what you draw is really cool! you did a very good job on drawing Hitler i can’t draw people very well right now but i’m sure when i learn i will do well! thank you for sharing you art!

  26. Steve
    July 31st, 2006 at 16:53

    Do you know Illustrator CS?… you can do that alot quicker… and get better results. I design/draw/paint in Illustrator, give it try…..

    Great drawing.

    Steve

  27. September 12th, 2006 at 19:33

    People, the program is MACROMEDIA FLASH!

    FLASH!

    MACROMEDIA!

    MACROMEDIA FLASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    There you go.

    Great illustration bro. Love it.

  28. amanda pavano
    September 30th, 2006 at 19:08

    that was kickass…what program did u use to do that

  29. January 9th, 2007 at 17:28

    I love how you incorporated his ear into his actual personality. Hitler was an awful person, but his body and face were like a little caricature, he is fun to draw. Another one you should draw is George Bush, equally insane, and funny looking too!

  30. lindy
    February 11th, 2007 at 00:37

    i’m trying to learn to draw and i loved your demo. very interesting to see how you went about it. i would have tried to use the pen tool instead of drawing lines and then bending them. nice one!

  31. hamid
    February 28th, 2007 at 15:21

    i just think ur great man, thanks for sharin!!

  32. brian
    May 11th, 2007 at 12:44

    what programme did u use???????

  33. ar4yyyy
    August 18th, 2008 at 09:07

    Nice. I drew my Hitler-PEZ dispenser from this.

  34. January 7th, 2009 at 08:22

    Hi I like this and also your rose drawing too. the Hitler subject just reminded me of something my brother found in his back garden. If anyone can help me find out exactly what it is it would be really helpful. I took pictures of it.