Chibi Drawing Guide

Here's the little guide along with a pic of a character my friend wanted me to draw, since she wanted me to teach her how to draw Chibis. Since I currently lack the skillz to make a fancy tutorial, you'll just have to deal with a lot of words for now. ^_^;

HERE WE GO!!!

Before we begin, these are the things you need to consider.

1) Choose the character. Sometimes it's best if they're not too complex, but if you feel confident in your abilities, then choose whatever character you want.
2) POSE AND EXPRESSION!! What is your chibi going to do? What situation are they going to be in?
3) Clothes. What are they wearing? Do they have little accessories?
4) K.I.S.S.--that means "keep it simple stupid". And that's what you should do...minus the insult. XD It's a chibi drawing, so everything's going to be simple compared to the normal character.

Now that that's out of the way, let's get on with the actual drawing~! : D

1) Draw the head. Make it ROUND-ISH and pudgy, like a little kid's face. If the head is normally pointed or has sharp edges, just soften them up a little and round off the tips/edges.
2) Now that you've got the head, you can either continue with the body or go ahead and sketch out the hair, eyes, nose and such. Again, use simple shapes/forms. Be sure to give the chibi wide eyes like this one above. Look up examples to see what you can do~!
3) When it comes to the body, you want to make it proportioned to the head. Here's the thing: the chibi's body is going to be squatter than its normal body is, so long arms and legs will be shortened. Again, keep it simple with the hands. You can either just shorten the fingers, or make them have "mitten hands" like Chi does in here.
4) Clothes. This is where you make them as simple as you can while still making sure people still know what it is. The same goes for any accessories!

And other than coloring, that's really the basic stuff on how to draw chibis~! X3 Sorry about the wordiness guys! D: Once I figure out how to do a tutorial, I'll probably redo this.

Here's the resulting pic~!