How to Draw Cute Chibis Drawing Tutorials » Anime Manga » Chibis » How to Draw Cute Chibis
STEP 1. We'll start off with the kinds of chibis that you run into. First we'll look over the regular chibis. These ones are almost child like in size, save for the oversized head. These are very common. See how the head almost makes up 1/3 of the body, that means the body is 3 heads tall. Head lengths are used in are when referring to figure drawing and determining how tall the figure is without actually giving a height. Next we have the super deformed, or SD chibi. Their bodies look squashed and their heads make up about half of the body.
STEP 2. After that we'll look at the shape of the chibi head. It's round and kinda of plump, almost like that of a child's though the features are much more exaggerated. I've included examples for you of the head of in four different views. See how in the profile and 1/4 view, how the face just comes down from the nose and there is no real definition of the lips.
STEP 3. Now we'll start on the different parts of the body. First the hands. You can go as detailed or as simple as you like. I've included some samples for you that show different poses for the hands as well as different types. You can show no fingers but have the rough shape of them, mitt like hands where it's just rounded off as if they were wearing mittens. Or you can show all the fingers. You can do them rough and have them just come to a point, or you can round them off and make them look like the hands of a child.
STEP 4. Now for feet. Like the hands you can go as detailed or as simple as you like. A simple way is to end the leg abruptly with ju st a square end. Next is to give a just a tiny bit of definition of a foot, sort of just hinting that it's there. Next would be to flesh it out just a little more, like a boot. Then would be to draw out all the little toes and curves for a detailed feel.
STEP 2. After that we'll look at the shape of the chibi head. It's round and kinda of plump, almost like that of a child's though the features are much more exaggerated. I've included examples for you of the head of in four different views. See how in the profile and 1/4 view, how the face just comes down from the nose and there is no real definition of the lips.
STEP 3. Now we'll start on the different parts of the body. First the hands. You can go as detailed or as simple as you like. I've included some samples for you that show different poses for the hands as well as different types. You can show no fingers but have the rough shape of them, mitt like hands where it's just rounded off as if they were wearing mittens. Or you can show all the fingers. You can do them rough and have them just come to a point, or you can round them off and make them look like the hands of a child.
STEP 4. Now for feet. Like the hands you can go as detailed or as simple as you like. A simple way is to end the leg abruptly with ju st a square end. Next is to give a just a tiny bit of definition of a foot, sort of just hinting that it's there. Next would be to flesh it out just a little more, like a boot. Then would be to draw out all the little toes and curves for a detailed feel.
STEP 5. Now we'll look at faces. The features are exaggerated, like the eyes are big and change with the different expressions and th e mouth can go from tiny to massive with just a change of mood. Chibi faces are very very expressive.
STEP 6. Chibis can have all sorts of ears as well, simple round ones, short or long pointed ears, animal like ears and even realistic like ears.
STEP 7.
Now we can put what we learned to use and draw us a chibi. First we'll start off with a frame to work off of.
STEP 8. Then we'll flesh it out and map out the features for the face.
STEP 9. Next we'll define the shape of the body more and do a rough sketch for the face and the ears.
STEP 10. Next we'll give her some hair. You can really get funky with the hair for Chibis, it can be huge and exaggerated like the other features of the body, or you can keep it simple and almost normal looking.
STEP 11. Now we can give our chibi a nice little outfit and dress them up so their not so naked.
STEP 12. Now it's tiem for the inking and the defining of all the details. Use a dark color or black and a smaller brush than what you did the sketch in and trace and draw all the details that you want for a chibi. Then you'll be all set to color. Have fun and Good Luck!
Drawing Chibis Drawing Tutorials » Anime Manga » Chibis » Drawing Chibis
STEP 1. The basics of chibi art may come easier to some than others. The whole i dea is to massively warp your character to turn it in to something cute. Some people have a natural eye for anatomy though and can have a hard time perfecting this concept, like me. But keep practicing your chibi anatomy! You will get it if you practice.
STEP 2. The main thing you need to keep in mind when drawing chibis is that they should never be taller than 3 of their heads. Super cute chibis should be about 2 heads tall so their huge cute heads are emphasized. Taller chibis can stretch to be 3 heads, but if you make them any larger they can start to be considered a normal style.
STEP 3. Here is a drawing I did some time ago of a character I made as compared to the chibi for this tutorial. As you can see, the d rawing of my character is only a partial body drawing at it is already 4 heads tall. Keeping the head heavily inflated is so important for chibis.
STEP 4. Now for the anatomy. Using my character again, you can see the difference between regular style and chibi. First lets start off with the foundation for the anatomy, the shoulders. Notice how tiny the chibi shoulders are compared to their head, and in the r egular style they are broader than her head. Keeping the shoulders and your basic foundations small will help you achieve your desired chibi look. From your small shoulders, you can start to draw in the rest of the torso. If you need help, draw in an extra circle about the same size as your head underneath the head like in the previous step to give you an idea of how tall your chibi needs to be. Your chibi body should not have complicated detail to it and should resemble that of a child.
STEP 5. Chibi eyes are massive compared to any form of regular eyes. They are also a lot lower on the face. Notice the large eyes take up most of the lower area of the face? The low set large eyes create a cute factor that can't be as easily achieved by having the eyes smaller and higher on the face. Try to have the i ris of the eye as large as you can get it without it completely taking over the entire face.
STEP 6. Another trick that chibi artists use is done with the hair. Puffing your chibis hair out a bit makes your chibis head seem la rger. The red circle is how large the circle for the head actually is, and the blue circle shows how large it seems after the hair. This can help you build that large head feel even if your head isn't as large as you wanted it to be. Just make sure the hair isn't flat and plastered against the ch ibi head circle because this will shrink your chibi head.
STEP 7. Now that you have some knowledge under your belt, lets try to draw a chibi.. or both! You can pick which one you wish to draw. Start with the circle for the head. Keep it fairly large and don't worry if it isn't perfect.
STEP 8. Now lets add in some basic stick figure shapes so we can start to build the bodies. Keep the stick figure bodies much smaller than the head. Do not make them proportional to each other.
STEP 9. Now lets draw in some bodies and chins! If you're drawing the boy, try not to add too much curve around his mid section. it needs to be fairly flat. For the girl, you can draw a big curve to show off her waist. Notice her legs even are a little curvier than the boys.
STEP 10. Now some bangs. Your bangs will come to a little lower than halfway down the face. Make the boys bangs messy and choppy as he has a messy type hair style. Make the girls bangs more uniform and stylized because her hair is styled.
STEP 11. Now we can draw that puffed up hair style! Remember to keep the boys hair choppy and the girls hair nice and clean cut. If you've seen any of my other tutorials, you already know that you should make sure the hair falls away from the part in opposite direc tions. The hair should never all be going one way.
STEP 12. Now for some clothing! Lets put a nice baggy hoodie on our boy. Draw the neck and hidden hood kind of puffy by using curved lines, then using more curves, you can puff out the hoodie and bring it in very close to the arm to give it that worn rippled look. (Click the image for a better view of the ripples) And for the girl, draw a nice little dress. Follow the curves of her chest and back and fan the dress out at her thighs. Don't cover her knees though!
STEP 13.
Now we can draw pants on our boy. Make sure that they're close to the body at the top and flare out and cover the feet a bit on the bottom. We're keeping with the baggy look! With the girl, draw in her choker, the bow on her arm and her cute little stockings and slippers. These can all be done close to the body because these are tight fit on her.
STEP 14. You may have to click the image to see the fine detail for this step. Next we put a seam on the pants, with pockets and lines to emphasize the baggy pant leg over the shoe. Follow the edge of the pants with a dotted line, then follow the very bottom and around the pocket for the seam. For the girl, draw a line to show that her collar isn't just flat and has movement, then draw in the fold details of her bows and the ribbons that lace up her stocking. Go ahead and draw in some collar bone lines too.
STEP 15. Now for some eyes. Keeping with what I said at the beginning of the tutorial, make sure your eyes are lower on the face than with a regular style. Draw in some happy closed eyes with your boy and some wide eyes with your girl. Her bangs cover one of her eyes.. other styles draw the eye over the bangs that hang down, I don't, but you may draw it this way if you choose. Draw in some eyelid lines as well.
STEP 16. Now draw in some eyebrows (don't forget the girls hidden eyebrow!) and mouths. Make an open happy mouth for our happy boy and a generic smile for our wide eyed girl.
STEP 17. Now you can fill in your eyes and add some eyelashes to your girl.. and you're finished! Happy coloring!
How to Draw Chibi Clothes Drawing Tutorials » Anime Manga » Chibis » How to Draw Chibi Clothes
STEP 1. First we need to start with a basic chibi form. I use this form often as it is my fall back chibi body so I'll go ahead and s tart with that.
STEP 2. I have seen many people try to clothe chibis like this. This creates a suction cup plastic type shirt that would be uncomfort able for anyone to wear and you need to avoid doing anything as just drawn lines on the chibi arms or body.
STEP 3. When people wear shirts, they are not plastic frozen and suction cupped to their body. They have movement! Notice the difference between the above and this shirt. Notice how airy and free this shirt is compared to the other one. Much more comfortable to wear for your chibi!
STEP 4. The key to this is making sure no part of clothing is just plastered to your chibi. make sure the shirt is on your chibi instead of part of your chibi. Notice the neck area how the neck is tucked into the neck of the shirt and there is an arch to show that the shirt is not part of the chibi, but on it, movable, and laying on the chibi. Make sure your sleeves and the bottom of your shirt edges are not laying on the chibi arms or torso to keep the "On your chibi" effect.
STEP 5. Long sleeves are not much different for your chibi. Notice the sleeve is still coming off the chibi, just less of a flair than the short sleeve.
STEP 6. Lets try something else. The most common skirt shown on girl chibis is the pleated skirt. This is mostly due to the pleated s chool uniform skirt. Notice the sides on the waist are tucked, not just part of your chibi. Basic pleated skirts are easiest to do one panel at a time. Start with the middle panel.
STEP 7. When drawing skirts, movement makes them look more believable than just having them straight down. You can do this by curving your panels in a certain direction. Once you pick a direction, be consistent! It would look strange to have panels going opposite directions and it is not believable.
STEP 8. The final panels should fan out from your chibi body while continuing with the movement. This will also help with making the clothing look like your chibi is actually wearing it. Try not to put too many panels in when drawing a simple chibi because the skirt will look strange against the simplicity. It helps to do larger panels if you are doing a more simple chibi and smaller panels for a more detailed.
STEP 9. Here are a couple other skirts to emphasize the way the skirt should fit on the chibi waist. Notice even the tight side skirt is still coming off the legs slightly on the bottoms. Even the slightest pull away can make all the difference with your chibi.
STEP 10. Pants work a little differently, but not greatly. The top of your pants where it connects to the waist should be off the chibi to show that it isn't attached, but the upper leg can be very close or on the form of your chibi to show the tightness around the upper leg. Just make sure your hip area isn't attached as well.
STEP 11. Once you've drawn the basic form of the pants, you can begin to add more details to show that they are actually pants.
STEP 12. Here's a full look at pants. The hip area where the pants start emphasizes that they aren't attached, the upper leg is tight and then it flares out towards the shoe. Notice the dramatic curve/edge of the pants near the point of the toe. this is because I w ant to show that the pants are loose on the chibi. Make sure your foot is coming out of your pants instead of just hovering at the bottom somewhere. If you want t ighter pants, you just have to bring the lower part of the pants closer to the legs of your chibi and make your curves and edges less dramatic.
STEP 13. Now for seams! Seams should be around the pockets and on the inner legs and outer sides of the pants and sometimes at the bottom. Since I only show the pockets, one inner and one outer leg, thats where I shall draw my seam there. Draw a dotted line following your pockets and the side lines of your pants. This is a simple thing that can make your chibis look more complicated with little effort!
STEP 14. Now that you know more about how to clothe your chibi properly, lets make one! Start with your basic circle, don't worry abou t perfection with this. It will mostly be erased eventually.
STEP 15. Now flatten out the lower part of your circle, this will be a flat chinned chibi. Also, draw in a basic stick figure form.
STEP 16. Now go ahead and draw the chibi body around your stick figure form and erase the part of the circle that got cut off by the c hin.
STEP 17. Now make sure your chibis eyes and mouth will be in the right spot by drawing in some light guide lines. The cross eye line s hould be low on the face so your eyes aren't too high. Draw the mouth in the middle of the vertical line.
STEP 18. After the last step, you may now add your own hair or clothing to your chibi, or you can keep drawing mine! Now for some hair! Puff the hair out off the head a bit to accentuate the large head a nd add some choppy side swept bangs.
STEP 19. Lets draw a loose shirt that looks like it's being caught up in a draft. Make sure the sleeves open up to reveal the arm insi de, and part of the shirt lifts up to show part of the stomach. This will make it look like the shirt has been blown up and is being held on by the chibi.
STEP 20. Now using the techniques I showed you earlier, draw some pants on. Don't forget the pockets, waist line and the flair at the lower leg/feet. Make the pants baggy down at the bottom.
STEP 21. Add in some detail to the pants, like a seam along the pockets, outer legs (as they are turned inward) and the very bottom of the pants. Also, add a seam to the sleeves and around the bottom of the shirt. You can also add in a line around the neck of the shirt to show the wrinkle if you would like.
STEP 22. Now to finish it up, add the rest of the lower part of the hair, eyelid lines and an eyebrow peeking through the bangs. Make sure to erase the line that crosses the neck before you finish!
How to Draw Chibi Anime Drawing Tutorials » Anime Manga » Chibis » How to Draw Chibi Anime
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STEP 1. The basics of a chibi are fairly simple to grasp. It's mostly composed of angles and circles. To start drawing your own chibi anime character, You can start with any number of different poses that you can easily whip up by drawing the angled chibi frame. Here are a few to give you an idea of how it's done!
STEP 2. Chibi anime characters can come in many different shapes and sizes, some small, some tall, but most all of them have a very s imilar frame to them. If you plan on making larger feet and hands, you can try adding triangles to the ends of the hands and feet lines to help guide you through the width that you would prefer.
STEP 3. As you build the body, keep the frame in mind so you can see any major flaws. It's easier to see if your proportions are off with the basic wire frame because there is less to it. Drawing out your chibi anime body is as simple as this!
STEP 4. Drawing out a chibi head just a simple step away from modifying the circle of the frame. In the upper left, you can see I have a circle and just added the basic anime pointed chin to it. Now you have your chibi head! After that you can choose from a variety of cute anime faces or expressions! I've drawn out several so you can get an idea of what you may want your chibi to look like.
STEP 5. Now, taking what you learned, lets start to draw our own anime chibi! Start with the basic circle. Try to make it as round as possible, but if it isn't perfect, don't worry about it.
STEP 6. Now lets start to build our chibi frame. Add your chin to your circle and draw out your chibi body using angles, lines and ci rcles.
STEP 7. Now we're going to need some help with the face.. Go ahead and draw in the basic rounded cross guide lines for your chibis fa ce.
STEP 8. Now that we have the facial guide lines down, draw in some anime eyes and a mouth. Go ahead and use whatever expression you want! I'm using some basic thick lined eyes and a basic smile.
STEP 9. Now we can go ahead and draw in her cute playful body. Be sure to not give her any breasts. Most anime chibi bodies are very genderless. You can also use this tutorial up to this point to draw a boy if you would like. But lets continue on with the chibi anime girl.
STEP 10. Anime bangs tend to be rather sections and a bit choppy. Go ahead and draw in her choppy bangs with emphasis on a swept look. Her hair will be swept up in the wind!
STEP 11. Now go ahead and draw in the rest of her hair and be sure to continue with the swept up in the wind look!
STEP 12. I love the chibi anime school girl look, so lets go ahead and draw her with a traditional school uniform. Start with the top and make sure the sleeves are a bit flared. Add a slight wave to the bottom of her shirt to make it look like it is also caught up in the wind.
STEP 13. Now you can draw in the lower half. Draw in a sectioned skirt that is flowing towards the direction her hair is flowing. Try drawing each panel individually and it will help. Draw in some knee socks and shoes, and the hint of hidden leg beneath her skirt.
STEP 14. Now for a couple finishing touches. Go ahead and add an eyebrow peeking through her bangs, and an eye line. No need for the o ther since her bang covers it all! Erase any un-needed lines.
How to Draw a Chibi Person Drawing Tutorials » Anime Manga » Chibis » How to Draw a Chibi Person
STEP 1. Start off with drawing the basic head shape, guide lines for eyes and the soft triangle shape body. Also draw in circles on the side of the head for the ears. Notice the ear for the boy is bigger than the girl.. this is because there will be bangs and eyelashes on the girls face and I don't want to take away from that so I shrunk her ear a bit. Don't forget to draw the lines for where you want your arms and legs t o be!
STEP 2. Now you can draw in the big eyes. The thick eye shape is more of 3/4 of a circle, then draw a thin line for the ir is of the eyes and draw in a cute smile while you're at it.
STEP 3. After erasing the eye lines and half of the ear circle (1/4 of the circle for the guy's ear) you can start on the bodies! Go ahead and add some width to those arm lines and legs and make sure they connect to the body. Pretty easy!
STEP 4.
Erase the arm/leg lines and the connection of the legs and arms to the torso first. Now you can start drawing the scarf and shirt. You can start by just drawing a thick wrap around the neck. Then draw the hanging part of the scarf coming from the head as if it were tucked in at the top. Then draw the shirts loose and a little bit large so make sure they come off the arms and the body a little.
STEP 5. Erase any extra body parts that would be covered by the shirt, and we can move on to the pants! The girls pants is very simple, just cause them to flair out at the foot and you're done. For the boy, pay close attention to the wrinkles and the bagginess of the pants. These pants would cover the feet so have them extend a little past his feet.
STEP 6. Erase the legs that would be covered by the pants, and lets move on! The bangs for the girl should be fairly long and broken up into pieces. Don't forget to have the hair piece that comes down in front of part of the ear. For the boy, you can create an imperfect jagged line starting at the top of the ear and going all the way up to the center of his head. Then draw a large oval, and continue the jagged down o n the other side.
