First introduced in the Star Wars: Clone Wars micro-series, General Grievous is known for not only his fighting skills, but also for his collection of lightsabers that he takes as trophies when he defeats his Jedi opponents. Part machine, part alien -- Grievous' appearance strikes fear into hearts of all who cross his path. As the leader of the Droid Army, Grievous led his troops on many successful missions and ultimately became part of the plot to kidnap Chancellor Palpatine in Revenge of the Sith.

Star Wars comic book artist Doug Wheatley explains his easy steps to draw General Grievous with examples below.

Steps 1-8 are to be drawn lightly with a pencil. No pen, no dark lines. Finished lines and details will come at the end in the last step.

Step One: Draw an oval shape; draw a horizontal line near the bottom of the oval, and then draw two slightly curved vertical lines as shown above. The horizontal line is where we will eventually put General Grievous' eyes, so we will call it the "eye line." The first curved line from left to right represents the side of his head so will call it the side line, the second curve line represents the center off his head so, we will call it the center line.		Step Two: Next, we draw Grievous' cheeks and the lower part of his face plate. Start near the top of the oval on the right hand side. Draw a slightly curved line out from the oval and stop just before you reach the eye line. Then draw a line straight down and then back toward the bottom of the oval. Next draw a slightly curve line down toward the bottom of the page and square it off and do the same thing on the left side starting your line near the top of the "side line." But remember to leave room for his fang like teeth at the bottom of his face plate as shown above. Now you can add the teeth!		Step Three: Draw two egg-shaped ovals with arrows run up Grievous' forehead. Remember the top of the ovals should rest just above the "eye line" as shown above. We can also add his ultrasonic vocabulators, those are the four bars at the bottom of the face plate, next to the teeth.

Step Four: On the left inside of the oval, draw an ellipse as shown above. This is where we will draw his ear piece.		Step Five: The ear piece! Inside the ellipse, draw two cylinders, the first so that it appears to be coming out of the ellipse. Draw the second smaller cylinder so that it appears to be coming out of the first cylinder, then draw a curved line so that it caps the second cylinder.		Step Six: Now we must draw General Grievous' transmitting antenna. Draw a triangle like shape so that it look like it is sitting on the ear piece. Make sure you cut a half circle out of the triangle where the ear piece is as shown above. At this point our drawing is starting to take shape and is beginning to look like General Grievous.

Step Seven: Now we can add the eyes inside the egg shaped ovals, on the eye line. You can add some wrinkles around the eyes if you like! Also, beginning at the top of the General's head, draw an large oval that ends at his teeth, the draw a smaller oval inside the first as shown above. This is Grievous' collar. Just under the antenna, you can add his neck tubes. Don't forget the two wires on either side of his teeth.		Step Eight: We are almost finished! Now we can erase the construction lines so that just the shapes we want are visible. We can now start to "finish" our drawing. Here, we will add details like scratches and dents to his face plate. We can also add shadows in the eyes and on his head. This will make Grievous look three dimensional.		Step Nine: You've done it! You have just drawn one of the greatest bad guys in Star Wars history, General Grievous!