His mother posed for Erzia, and his father left many biographical notes about his friend that were published as a Sculpture Erza book after Suteev's death.
[4][6][7] Even as a young man, Suteev's works were periodically published in the magazines Pioner, Murzilka, Druzhnye Rebyata, and Iskorka and in the newspaper Pionerskaya Pravda.
In 1928 he graduated from the Faculty of Art of the Institute of Cinematography where he studied along with his brother Vyacheslav Suteev (1904–1993) and his cousin Dmitry Bogolepov (1903–1990), both of whom became prominent Soviet popular science directors.
In 1941, before leaving for the frontline, Suteev completed his work on the cartoon Clatterfly (Mukha-tsokotukha), based on Korney Chukovsky's fairy tale.
After that, Suteev published quite a number of books: What Kind of a Bird is This?, Under the Mushroom, The Bag of Apples, The Chicken and the Duckling, Who said "Meow"?, The Helpful Stick, and many others.
Vladimir Suteev had been illustrating the books of Russian literary classics: Korney Chukovsky's tales, Samuil Marshak's "Whiskers and stripes", "Uncle Stjopa" by Sergey Mikhalkov, "The merry summer" by Valentin Berestov.