How to draw a chibi? Chibi is a favorite character

Chibi is a prime example of the world-famous cutting-edge Japanese style of drawing. These are super-deformed favorite characters that serve to broadcast a variety of emotions to the audience. There are a number of basic distinguishing features of the image of these cute and unusual creatures. These features are:

• The head is proportional to the body.
• Ease of drawing.
• Compliance with the general style of kawaii (kawainishka).
• Huge eyes.

Manga character

SailorCosmos, having the appearance of a two-year-old girl, is the Last Reincarnation of Sailormoon. The manga claims that Sailor Cosmos came from the future. Although Chibi-Chibi herself says in the manga that only Sailormoon can be considered true Sailor Cosmos, since only victory over chaos is subject to it, although such an act can be considered its self-destruction.

Brief characterization of the character in the anime

Everything is simpler here. This character is the "light of hope", the so-called star-shaped grain of Galaxia, released by her, in order to avoid her own death, in search of the strongest warrior of the Universe, after Chaos captured Galaxia herself.

General image principles

In our article we will try to tell how to draw a 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. Separate details reflect emotions (we will dwell on them in more detail later). His body measures approximately 1 / 4–1 / 3 of the usual characters for anime. So, let's begin.

Basic information

Before you draw an anime chibi, let's recall its main features. In addition to what is indicated above, the image looks somewhat plump, even complete. Rounds serve to emphasize the youth of the characters. The round head of creatures lengthens as they grow older. This part of the body is quite large, relative to the size of the body (if ordinary characters in the manga have an approximate size of 1 / 7–1 / 6 of their height, then in a chibi it is about 1/3 or even up to 1/2 the length of the body of creation and it seems simple tremendous against the background of a small body). The pupils of the huge eyes should be mainly dilated (except in some cases). Their eyelashes are drawn in a simplified style, there should also be large highlights. The mouth should be rather big, the lower lip is not marked, the small tip of the nose is also noticeable. The chin is rounded, the cheeks are chubby, the neck is missing or thin. The simpler the chibi character is portrayed, the more charming he is perceived. For example, the fingers on the fist of a warrior do not draw, as well as the muscles on his hands. All these nuances should be taken into account, since drawing an Chibi anime using them will be easier. Next will be described directly the process.

How to draw a chibi in stages

1. First of all, we apply the main contour of the head, we make the designation of the guide lines of the eyes and soft forms of the body with a triangle. We build circles for the ears in the head circle. We draw attention to the fact that a chibi boy should have more ears than a girl.
2. We turn to the eyes. Their thick forms should occupy more than 3/4 of the circle, then draw a thin line along the iris of the eye . The mouth resembles an inverted D, or depicted as a small smile. The nose is almost invisible.
3. We erase the lines for the eyes and 1/2 circles for the ears, add the lines of the legs and arms.
4. Let's continue to learn how to draw a chibi. Chibi, of course, has certain clothes. We proceed to the image of these details. We draw a shirt and a scarf. The latter should be thick enough, wrapped around the neck, with hanging ends. The shirt should be free, it’s a little too big for a creature of such a not very large size, the body and hands can only be slightly covered by clothes.
5. We erase the body parts that are covered with a shirt or t-shirt, and go to the pants. The girl’s trousers just have to expand downwards, and that’s it. The boy does not forget to draw wrinkles and baggy on his pants.
6. We erase the lines of the legs that fall under the trousers and go to the hair. How to draw a chibi girl, emphasizing her gender with a hairstyle? It's simple. The bangs of the girl are long and breaks up into locks, hair is reduced in front of the ear. For the boy, we depict only a lot of torn lines from the top of the ear to the central part of the head.
7. A chibi girl draws more eyelashes than a boy. Above, they should be much longer than below. For the boy, we highlight the eyebrows brighter, make them thicker. Both have vortices near the ears. Here's how to draw a chibi with a pencil.

Express emotions

Above we gave the basic principles of how to draw a chibi. Chibi is an emotional character. There are several tricks to illustrate the mood of the heroes. Here are the main ones:

1. If the chibi is happy, we draw its mouth wide open, and the eyebrows and eyes are straight lines.
2. If the hero is happy - the upper eyelids are depicted in the form of arcs, in lines.
3. When a character is fooling around, the eyes are two curved circles, and the pupils are dots. Mouth open.
4. Embarrassment. To convey this state of the eye, draw in the form of two points and express brighter cheeks.
5. We portray a hero in sadness or crying. We simplify the eyes to huge pupils filled with glare from tears, while tears run from the eyes in streams. We draw eyebrows in the form of a pair of straight lines.
   
6. If the character is dumbfounded - the upper eyelids are straight lines, the pupils are small dots, the mouth is wide open, a drop on the side. You can depict the shadows under the eyes as a pair of vertical stripes. He was very dumbfounded - his mouth ajar, shadows in the form of strokes across his face. Draw the eyes like crossed lines.
7. Surprise. In this state, the character’s mouth is open and the eyes are very large.
8. Shocked. The mouth is wide open, the eyes are drawn as rounded lines, the eyebrows are not drawn at all.
9. Disturbance. In this case, we depict a wide open mouth in combination with straight lines of the lower and upper eyelids.
10. When the hero feels disgusted, his eyebrows and upper eyelids are raised (depicted in the form of a curved line).
11. Discontent. In this case, the upper eyelids are straight lines, the pupils are large dots, one eyebrow is depicted as curved, the mouth is curved and parted.
12. Draw a character who is very annoyed. The upper eyelid and eyebrows are depicted in straight lines, and the lower eyelid is in the form of a semicircle, on the forehead is like an X, the mouth is wide open.
13. When the hero is angry or very irritated - the pupils are points, and the eyebrows are moved, teeth are visible in the open mouth.
14. Sleeping, bored or tired - his mouth is ajar, his eyes are closed. Now you know how to draw a chibi. Chibi can be decorated with felt-tip pens or paints.