How to Draw a Boy Chibi Face - Draw Cartoon Style!

Of late, I’ve been obsessed with drawing chibi characters.

I am currently enjoying drawing chibi food and chibi girls because they’re so darn cute and you can make such cute stickers from these drawings.

I want to teach you how to draw a boy’s chibi face in this tutorial. I think this will be very useful if you’re trying to draw chibi characters.

This is not covered as much because people mostly draw girl chibi characters.

You can even pick up my free printable girl chibi face template here and practice on your own:

This is what you will learn to draw by the end of this drawing tutorial:

Okay, let’s begin with the basics.

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I am learning how to draw chibi characters from all these chibi drawing books. So, please check out those books if you really want to enhance your learning.

Tools I’m using to draw my digital art:

I’m currently using:

And I’m using the Procreate software (which costs $10 one-time-fee)

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You can draw this using pencils or a fine marker, or draw it digitally like me.

The tools you use don’t matter because the technique remains the same.

How to Draw a BoyChibi Face – Step-by-step easy tutorial for Beginners

If you are using digital art, please remember to keep your lineart on one layer and make it a reference layer.

Remember to keep each color on a new layer – this will allow you to manipulate any specific layer without affecting the others.

All these colors should be underneath the reference layer so that you’re not messing with your outline.

This will enable us to drag and drop colors easily if the area or section is closed completely by lineart.

Step 1: Draw the head

Before starting the face, it’s always best to draw a rough template of a circle first.

This will help us draw the face very easily.

So, first, I’m going to draw a circle and a cross-section inside the circle.

Please use a compass or a stencil if you’re drawing a circle traditionally.

Easy enough, right?

Now, draw the side of the face and the cheek like this:

Next, we’ll draw the ear on the other side of the face.

Okay, we’ve drawn the basic shape of the chibi boy’s face.

Now, it’s time to get into the details and draw the eyes.

Step 2: Draw the facial features

Once you get the hang of drawing eyes, it actually becomes quite easy.

You just need a bit of practice.

So, we’re going to draw 2 circles and 2 crescent shapes over the eyes.

Next, draw 2 semi-circles in the round shapes like this:

Next, draw 2 small dots underneath the semi-circles – this will give the eyes more depth.

It doesn’t look like much now, but it’s going to come together nicely when we color it.

Now, it’s time to add more details to the chibi eyes.

So, draw 2 small circles at the right and then shade the upper half area of the circles like this. This will give your chibi eyes more depth.

Add 2 eyebrows and a small smiling mouth under the eyes like this:

Remember to keep the facial features very simple.

When learning to draw a chibi face, you must remember that the eyes are the main attraction.

The rest of the features should be very small and not distracting. So, keep the nose, the mouth, and the ears very simple.

Step 3: Draw the hair

I already have a detailed post on drawing chibi hair here, so please check it out. I won’t elaborate too much in this tutorial.

First, I always start drawing hair (on any character) with a simple shape.

I use a different layer and draw it with green – this process takes time.

Chibi boy hair has many points and sharp lines because Anime and Chibi boys usually have this kind of hair shape.

So, it’s okay if it’s messy.

Just draw a rough sketch of the hair over the face.

I’ll lighten this layer and then carefully draw over it with my normal outline.

Hair is probably what us artists need to practice a lot and it certainly takes time – but it’s worth it.

Step 4: Color the chibi face and hair

I already have a very detailed tutorial on how I color my digital art, so please check that out if you have any doubts. It even includes a video so you can see step-by-step how I color all my digital art.

I’m going to color the face a very light cream color and add 2 light pink blush spots on his cheeks.

When drawing chibi characters, always remember to add the blush spots on the chibi’s face. This will make your chibi character very cute and youthful!

Next, I’m going to color the eyes.

You can color the eyes any color you want – purple, brown, or red. Use your imagination.

I am going to go purple because I love purple.

I will color the whole bottom part of the eye mid-purple, and then, with light pastel purple, I will draw 2 small semi-circles at the bottom of the eyes.

Please note that there are so many types of chibi eyes you can draw. But I prefer this style because I find this style very cute!

Next, we can move on to coloring the hair.

I am going to go with brown just since I feel it goes great with his eyes.

You can color your chibi hair any color you want!

Please use your creativity to mix and match colors!

Next, I will take a slightly darker tone of brown and add shadows – this will give the hair and drawing more depth!

And finally, it’s time to add the highlights.

With a light pastel brown, I’ll just add highlights throughout the hair.

You can ask yourself where the light is hitting the hair, and accordingly draw the highlights in his hair.

And voila!

You’ve finished learning how to draw a boy chibi face and even learned how to color it.

Please download your free chibi face template here if you haven’t already!

Conclusion

Drawing Anime and Chibi takes some time but I am going to attach a few resources below that will really help you.

If you want to see more tutorials on chibi, just leave a comment down below. You can check out my other posts on drawing hair over here.

I will be adding more chibi drawing tutorials to this blog, so keep a lookout!

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