Hi everyone! I’m Mary and I’m back with a new tutorial. Today I want to go over the process of stylizing a chibi and explaining more about these squishy and fluffy characters.
Something to eat? No! This is an artstyle, usually cute, unique and marketable. Frequently used in stickers and things relatable. C'mon, who never bought something that you saw and screamed OH. MY. GOD. This is so cute! I NEED it!”
The anatomy is different, and it's a lot more stylized. Although this type of style is not THAT difficult in comparison with a full realistic body, it needs attention in some points I'll talk about later.
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There's more than one type of chibi, so we can have different proportions, but most part of the time we consider them 2 or 3 heads tall in comparison to an adult person (6-8 heads tall), and that's what makes them cute and appealing.
Simplification is important in this style. The details usually come from the complex visual, clothes, hair, but the body stays simple. Instead, it can look a little uncanny when it looks too realistic for the exaggerated proportions.
When you do a chibi version of a character, you have to select the most important features of them. Thick eyebrows, pointed ears, horns, or anything else that makes up the visual identity would reflect in the chibi and make them recognizable.
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Like the popular anime style, the head of a chibi is drawn very big. It makes the character look cuter and the focus goes to the facial expressions (often highlighted in anime).
For that, we minimize the nose, mouth, and the eyes become bigger, taking up more space on the face — putting aside realistic human proportions rules.
I think It’s important to make the neck smaller and thinner, because it makes them cuter, when a realistic neck contrasts too much with a simple stylized face. The shoulders are also smaller.
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There is not much to say about this part, precisely because it is simple. Make them short, and keep it simple. The torso doesn't have too many details here.
The body can be like a rectangle, a bean, a triangle, it depends on what suits better on your character. Like, for a cute visual, curved lines, chubby arms and legs fit well; for a strength visual, angled lines, sharped forms, like a triangle, are better.
For chibis, you don’t have to draw the fingers or toes at all, you can prefer to draw them like simple forms or just a short form of these parts.
Complete Centered Full Body Portrait Chibi Art Style Realistic Cartoon · Creative Fabrica
Chibis can have different styles. Detailed costumes, colored hair, or just a simple character you did for a meme. There's no limits.
The shapes can assume a lot of different forms. A chibi usually is cute because of their proportions, but a thick lineart and angular shapes make it less cute. The same for the opposite. The feeling you get depends on the composition.
I personally love curved lines, big eyes and thick line art, as well as I usually draw 3 head proportion chibi — and it’s a personal preference. You can create whatever you want.
Chibi Anime Art Style Dark Brown Skin Male Character With Curly Black Hair, A Beard And Tattoos On Craiyon
This step I'm not going to explain because this isn't the focus of this tutorial, but if you want a tutorial about painting, just put it in the comments!
You can see I decided to include small feet, simple hands, pointed ears and big eyes. I love chibis like this! She’s so cute!
However there aren't rules in art, these are just some largely based on my own personal experience, practice and preferences, but I hope you’ve found my explanation helpful even a bit and useful to you in your own style!This and tutorial will cover some very general things to consider when designing chibi characters. It is largely based on my own personal experiences and preferences but I hope this can be useful to some and provide a different perspective when approaching this subject matter.
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Very generally speaking, an adult person is roughly 7~8 heads tall. In order to translate this into a version of a character who is only 2 or 3 heads tall, there are some key points that we should consider to make them as cute and appealing as possible.
While this is largely dependent on your own personal preferences, I personally prefer chibis to have a rounder and simplified body. When the body and face aren’t stylized enough for chibis I found that it can start to look a little bit uncanny if the body or face look too realistic for the exaggerated proportions.
The key is to not focus on drawing every detail - instead look for big shapes in the character’s design and key features that make the character unique. Also consider rounding out and simplifying a lot of the features whenever you can.
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Like with a lot of the popular anime or other anime-adjacent art styles, the head of a chibi is drawn very big, along with their eyes as well. This makes the character look cuter and also lets us focus on conveying their facial expressions.
A simple rule to follow for drawing cute faces is to minimize the nose, mouth and chin and to enlarge the eyes to take up more space on the face.
While we have learned that the eyes are generally halfway between the top of the face and the bottom of the chin in a realistic face, with chibi art it’s a bit different. In order to make the face even more appealing and cute, try relocating the facial features a bit lower and make the distances between each feature closer as well.
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There’s also several ways to draw chibi faces, and typically you’d want them to be a lot more rounder and squashed than a regular realistic face.
Necks aren’t always needed in chibis, and in some art styles it might not be necessary to draw them at all. But if you decide to include it, I think it is important to also make the neck much smaller and thinner. If the neck looks too realistic and thick in comparison to the cute and very stylized features of the chibi face and body, it will look rather odd and out of place.
For more simpler or cartoon-like chibis, you might decide to not draw the fingers or toes at all and opt for more abstract shapes such as circles and triangles to represent hands and feet.
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In contrast to other features, there’s not a whole lot to say about the torso other than to also make them short and stubby. Keep it very simple and soft, minimize the details.
I found that a bean-like shape for the body works best with with more chubbier arms and legs, whereas a rectangular base for the body is more suited for chibis with longer limbs. However, there’s no strict rules. Try experimenting around with different combinations to find what suits your character the best!
To finish this off, here’s a step by step of how I personally approach drawing chibis. I will give a few examples of different styles of chibi art and briefly explain my thought process behind them.
Chibi Anime Style Art
To match with this stylistic choice, I have decided to make the shapes more geometric with the arms and legs and also to make them fairly long.
Then using the [Lasso] tool, I refine the selected area more precisely. (Pressing [Shift] key to add to the selected area, and pressing [Alt] key while using the lasso tool to subtract from the selected area.)
Then I invert the selected area and then use the [Bucket] tool to fill in the line art with a base colour.
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In order to fit the softer style, I have made the arms and legs also a lot more chunky and blob-like in shape to create a more cohesive design.
Since the body is smaller, simpler and less detailed than the previous version, I will also make the eyes bigger and placed slightly lower down on the face in order to make it cuter.
Since the torso area is slightly more anatomically accurate, the limbs I will draw will also be more realistic to match the overall style.
Easy Steps To Creating Chibi Characters
While it can sometimes work with careful balancing, a rule I personally follow is to not mix clashing stylistic choices, and instead stick to similar shapes for a more cohesive and harmonious design.
Eg. More chunky limbs and rounder face for a soft blob-like body shape, whereas a more rectangular body works better with other geometrical shapes for limbs.
However, of course there are no strict rules in art, and what matters the most is to experiment to see what works the best for you and to have fun with your art!
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