Hello everyone ! Welcome to a new tutorial!

I will teach you how to draw a chibi from geometric shapes.

We will see three geometric shapes in this tutorial: the rectangle, the triangle and the circle.

I would like to point out that the shapes will not be perfect in order to avoid a too clean result and a too rigid chibi.

 

As you know, a chibi is a miniature version of a normal character with certain peculiarities. A chibi can be drawn in many ways but, for beginners, it is better to start with some basics that you can customize later.

 

With that, it's time to start!

Draw a chibi from a rectangle

1. To start your chibi, first draw her head in the shape of a circle. It must be big enough to contain the eyes.

But if you have difficulty, you can use the symmetrical ruler or the geometric shapes in the dedicated tool to help you. (This goes for all stages and also for all geometric shapes!)

2. After the head, start drawing a not too long rectangular shape that matches our chibi's torso.

3. Next, place yourself between the head and the beginning of your torso and start drawing the arms. You can adopt any pose as long as the arms are rectangular in shape.

Besides, the thickness of the rectangle is not important, you are free to make rectangular shapes thinner or larger (This applies to all stages!)

4. Now let's move on to the legs. Be careful that they are not too long otherwise your character will no longer be a chibi!

5. Now that the whole body is drawn, trace it by adding all the details (ears, fingers etc.).

Note that chibis faces have fairly developed cheeks, so it is important to highlight it. For reference, you can take the face of Gumball and Darwin who perfectly illustrate the faces of chibis in general!

In addition, the ears are quite large, this allows you to highlight certain details such as the earrings for example! However, if your character does not have the ears visible, it is not necessary to add them. They can be used as a benchmark to place the eyes later!

As you can see, I have very little detailed my character's hands and feet. As the chibi is a miniature version, it doesn't have to detail the body limbs but you can if you want!

 

I also added a neck. But, again, it is not compulsory!

6. Back to the face! It's time to take a look! Make sure that they occupy a large part of the face.

To help you place them, make sure they are at the same height of the ears as you can see below.

The nose and mouth are quite inconspicuous when drawing a chibi since it is a miniature version of a normal character. Besides, most chibis don't have a nose.

7. You can now add all the details of your character (hair, clothes, accessories ...).

 

Please note that the details must be simplified as much as possible so as not to clutter the chibi, it must remain pleasant to the eye and must take you as little time as possible!

8. All you have to do is ink and color it!

Draw a chibi from a triangle

Now let's move on to the second geometric shape: the triangle. (The one I use personally).

1. As for the rectangle, draw the head in the shape of a circle.

2. For the torso, start from the chin and draw your triangle. As with the rectangle, please ensure that your triangle is not too large.

3. For the arms, place yourself between the head and the torso and draw your triangles. If your arms are bent, make sure that each part of the arms looks like a triangle like in the example below.

4. For the legs, two triangles are needed. The first, the one that starts from the torso is upside down, that is to say, you have to draw the base first before the point of the triangle that represents the knee. The second triangle is upright.

Here is an example below:

5. Now that the body is drawn, it's time to clean it up.

Generally, chibis drawn in a triangular shape are girls because this shape corresponds to some details to the morphology in 8.

6. Now repeat step 6 and 7 which corresponds to the eyes and the details to add and all you have to do is ink and color!

Draw a chibi from a circle

Clarification: Here, when I talk about the round, I am talking about a shape that has no angles.

Here are some examples :

1. So we start with the head in the shape of a circle.

2. For the torso, start from the chin to draw a round shape (it can be an oval, pear shape…).

3. For the arms, start from the intersection between the head and the torso and make a fairly large circle. Feel free to draw on the torso, you can fix it later.

4. Do the same for the legs (if the rendering is ugly, don't worry, you can change it after!)

 

For my part, my legs look like long peanuts.

5. It's time to clean it up!

6. Add the eyes and details of your character as for the previous shapes and you can start inking and coloring it !!

And There you go !!

End of tutorial

Thanks for watching and completing this tutorial! This is my method, so it is not to be followed exactly.

Moreover, do not hesitate to merge the forms for more dynamism and diversity!

If you want to know how to ink your chibi, you can take a look at my tutorial below:

 

 

Thanks again and see you next time !!