In this tutorial we will cover the basics Chibi drawing characters.
Chibi are super deformed characters to convey vivid emotions.
Chibi are drawn in different styles and genres, however, despite this, they retain the main distinctive features:
Big head. Chibi's head is much larger relative to the body, it is 1/3 or 1/2 of the height.
Simplicity. Chibi characters are drawn in a simplified manner.
Roundness. To convey youth and charm, Chibi characters are drawn with a plump body.
Differences between a regular character's head and a chibi one.
Let's take a closer look at the main differences between the head of a regular character and a chibi one.
- Medium forehead
- Eyes of medium size, well-drawn eyelashes, medium-sized highlights.
- Regular nose length.
- The mouth is medium in size, the line of the lower lip is drawn.
- Pointed chin.
- The neck is medium size.
Chibi
- A huge forehead like that of small children.
- Large eyes, dilated pupils, simplified drawn eyelashes, large highlights.
- Only the tip of the nose is visible.
- The mouth is large, the lower lip is not marked.
- Rounded chin, plump cheeks.
- The neck is very thin or non-existent.
Draw a circle, and then a little lower a rounded chin. Chibi's eyes are very large, so it is important to draw them correctly; for this we draw auxiliary lines.
We outline the upper and lower eyelids and draw the pupil. The upper eyelashes should be large, and the lower eyelashes, on the contrary, thin.
Using an auxiliary circle we outline the border of future hair.
When outlining your hair, remember that there should be a lot of it.
We complicate the eyes and add hair.
We draw a blank for the future Chibi figure.
We outline the figure and erase the blank.
We draw the face in detail: add a nose, mouth and complicate the eyes.
We remove the auxiliary lines and draw the hands in detail.
Let's decorate. And our miracle is ready.
As we said earlier, Chibi is drawn in order to more clearly convey the character’s emotions. So let's look at the basic emotions.
Calm state without showing any strong emotions.
Joy. The mouth is wide open. Eyes and eyebrows in the form of straight lines.
Happiness. The upper eyelids are drawn with lines in the form of an arc.
Goofiness. The eyes are in the form of curved circles and the pupils are indicated by dots. The mouth is open.
Embarrassment. Eyes in the form of dots. Pronounced cheeks.
Sadness. Cry. The eyes are simplified to large pupils with glare from tears. Streams of tears flow from the eyes. Eyebrows are simplified to straight lines.
Stunned. Upper eyelid are drawn as straight lines. The pupils of the eyes are in the form of small dots. The mouth is wide open. A droplet is drawn on the side. Under the eyes you can add shadow in the form of vertical stripes.
Severe stupor. Eyes in the form of crossed lines. Shadow across the face with strokes. The mouth is slightly open.
It is difficult for a mere mortal to imagine that there are many various styles, directions, branches in the field of manga and anime. For him, everything with big eyes, hair tightly sealed with varnish and weapons the size of its owner is one kind of product, flown in from distant Japan. In fact, there is so much diversity that there is none even in the plot of Carmelita. Based on countless requests from my beloved readers, I have prepared a lesson on how to draw a chibi with a pencil. Chibi is a style of drawing cute girls with a huge head and a frail body. As conceived by the authors, the style was created to display comical situations, although science does not yet know how size affects the level of laughs caused, but there is more than enough kawaiiness here. Some offspring believe that the heroes of the trashy cartoon Sauce Park are also chibiks. Such examples should be immediately punished and sentenced to the guillotine, because the legendary Sauce Park is America, where they only know about anime that it exists.
What can we say about Chibiks:
- Since the size of a chibi is much smaller than a regular anime character, their eyes are no longer half the size of their face, but half their body;
- They are another example of the fact that the Japanese strive to either idealize our world or distort it so that not a trace remains of this world. Strange narrow-eyed view of the world;
- Because of their big eyes and cute clumsiness, the amount of cuteness emanating from them increases by +100500 for each person;
- Mostly low-budget anime use these characters as a basis;
- The subject can be used as cookie cutters. This is important.
Well, well, try to draw them!
How to draw a chibi with a pencil step by step
Step one. First, draw a large rectangle on paper. Now add five circles inside that will turn into heads, and a few lines from them to represent the bodies. 
Step two. Draw the hair first and big eyes on the face, then carefully draw out the small bodies. 
Step three. If you like how everything is drawn, start adding shadows and shading the cuties. 
Step four. Use an eraser to clean up the drawing and trace each line again. This is what should happen: 
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Chibi is an anime style that exists to emphasize the comic image of the character- very small, about 3-4 times smaller than a regular anime. They are characterized by a large head, which occupies 1/2 the height of the character himself, large eyes, very expressive emotions, small limbs of the hands and feet.
Please note: the arms and legs here are drawn differently from how we are used to drawing in any other anime genre.
Step 1. Start by drawing the basic shape of the head, using the guide lines for the eyes and the soft shapes of the body as a triangle. Draw circles around the head where the ears should be.
Pay attention to your ear. For a chibi boy it is larger than for a girl.
Step 2. Now you can draw Chibi's eyes.
Thick eye shapes are more 3/4 circle, then draw a thin line along the iris of the eyes. Make your mouth in the shape of a turned letter (D) or a small smile. The nose is almost invisible.
Step 3. After erasing the lines of the eyes and half of the ear, you need to add width to the lines of the arms and legs on the body, making sure that they connect to the body.
Step 4. Now you can start drawing the scarf and shirt.
You can start drawing the scarf thick and wrap it around your neck.
Then draw the part of the scarf hanging from the neck. Add a loose shirt that is slightly larger than your body.
Step 5. Remove any additional body parts that will be covered by the T-shirt or shirt and we can move on to the pants! The girl's trousers are very easy to draw, you just need to widen them a little at the bottom and you're done. For boys: Pay close attention to wrinkles and baggy legs.
Step 6. Erase the lines of the legs, which will fit under the trousers and allow movement.
When drawing a chibi girl- her bangs should be long enough and fall apart into pieces. Don't forget to draw the hair that comes together at the front of the ear.
When a chibi boy is drawn, you can create many jagged lines starting from the top of the ear and working all the way to the center of the head.
Step 7. Now for the chibi girl we need to add something similar to the shape of an egg that hides behind her head. Then on the opposite side of the head we will draw a large curl. For a chibi boy, add swirls and erase part of the oval at the bottom of the head.
Step 8. Now for the girl we draw eyelashes in some parts of the eyes. Large at the top, tiny at the bottom of the eye. For the boy don't forget pay attention to thick eyebrows.
Don't forget the whirlwind in the ears for both of them.
Everything is ready - there are little chibis in front of you!
Chibi is shining example world-famous ultra-modern Japanese These are super-deformed favorite characters that serve to convey a variety of emotions to the audience. There are a number of basic distinctive features images of these cute and unusual creatures. These features are considered:
- The head is proportional to the body.
- Easy to draw.
- Compliance with the general kawaii style.
- Huge eyes.
Character in the manga
SailorCosmos, who has the appearance of a two-year-old girl, is the Last Reincarnation of Sailor Moon. The manga states that Sailor Cosmos came from the future. Although Chibi-Chibi herself says in the manga that only Sailormoon can be considered the true Sailor Cosmos, since only she can defeat chaos, although such an act can be considered her self-destruction.
Brief description of the character in the anime
Everything is simpler here. This character is the “light of hope”, the so-called star grain of Galaxia, released by it, in order to avoid its own death, in search of the strongest warrior of the Universe, after Galaxia itself was captured by Chaos.
General principles of image
In our article we will try to tell you how to draw Chibi. Chibi is not only a separate character, but also a whole style. You should know that his image must accurately convey the character of the hero. Individual details reflect emotions (we will dwell on them in more detail later). His body is approximately 1/4-1/3 the size of a typical anime character. So let's begin.
Basics
Before drawing a chibi anime, let's remember its main features. In addition to what is indicated above, the image looks somewhat well-fed, even full. The roundness serves to emphasize the youth of the characters. The creatures' round heads lengthen as they grow older. This part of the body is quite large, relative to the size of the body (if for ordinary manga characters the head has an approximate size of 1/7-1/6 of the height, then for a chibi it is about 1/3 or even up to 1/2 the length of the creature’s body and seems simple huge against the background of a small body). The pupils of huge eyes should be mostly dilated (with some exceptions). Their eyelashes are drawn in a simplified style, and there should also be large highlights. The mouth should be rather large, the lower lip should not be marked, and the small tip of the nose should also be visible. The chin is rounded, the cheeks are plump, the neck is absent or thin. The more simply a chibi character is portrayed, the more charming he is perceived to be. For example, the fingers on the warrior’s fists are not drawn, nor are the muscles on his arms. All these nuances should be taken into account, since it will be easier to draw Chibi anime with their help. Next, the process itself will be described.
How to draw a chibi step by step
- First of all, we draw the main outline of the head, marking the guide lines of the eyes and soft shapes of the body with a triangle. We build circles for the ears in the circle of the head. Please note that a chibi boy should have larger ears than a girl.
- Let's move on to the eyes. Their thick shapes should occupy more than 3/4 of the circle, then draw along a thin line. The mouth resembles an inverted D, or is depicted in the form of a small smile. The nose is almost invisible.
- Erase the lines for the eyes and 1/2 of the circles for the ears, add lines for the legs and arms.
- Let's continue learning how to draw a chibi. Chibi, of course, has certain clothes. Let's start depicting these details. Draw a shirt and scarf. The latter should be quite thick, wrapped around the neck, with the ends hanging down. The shirt should be loose, as if a little too big for a creature of such a small size; the body and arms can only be slightly uncovered by clothing.
- We erase the parts of the body that are covered with a shirt or T-shirt, and move on to the pants. A girl's trousers just need to widen at the bottom, that's all. For a boy, don’t forget to draw wrinkles and baggy pants.
- We erase the lines of the legs that fall under the trousers and move on to the chibi girl, emphasizing her gender with the help of her hairstyle? It's simple. The girl's bangs are long and fall into strands; her hair is pulled together in front of her ear. For a boy we draw only a lot of ragged lines from the top of the ear to the central part of the head.
- We draw more eyelashes on a chibi girl than on a boy. They should be much longer at the top than at the bottom. For a boy, we highlight the eyebrows brighter and make them thicker. Both have vortices near their ears. Here's how to draw a chibi with a pencil.
Expressing emotions
Above we have given the basic principles of how to draw a chibi. Chibi is an emotional character. There are several techniques to illustrate the mood of the characters. Here are the main ones:
