How to draw Mario.EXE

Getting the jagged teeth, hollow eye sockets, and lurching cleaver pose to read clearly without becoming a muddy mess is the real challenge in this tutorial on how to draw Mario.EXE, the horror-corrupted character from the Friday Night Funkin’ mod roster. The line work has to stay sharp enough to keep that threatening quality, which means clean edges matter more here than in most character sketches.

What This 31-Step Walkthrough Actually Puts You Through

The tutorial runs 31 steps and ends on clean line art rather than a colored version, so every step is about building confident, precise lines. The pose is asymmetrical with the cleaver raised on one side, which means the body balance needs attention early or the whole figure ends up tilted wrong. Most of the detail work lands in the face, where the open mouth with its jagged teeth and the hollow eye sockets have to be placed accurately relative to the cap brim above them.

Mario.EXE Design Breakdown

• Cap with M logo on the front
• Dark hollow eye sockets, small pupils
• Wide mouth with sharp jagged teeth
• Overalls with suspenders and round buttons
• Cleaver gripped in right hand, lurching pose

If you are working through the horror-mod section of the site, Starecrown (STARE) and the Mario.EXE (GB Mario Land) version both cover similar corrupted-character territory and are worth drawing back to back. Lucas from FNF: Vs. Mario 85 fits naturally alongside them if you want to keep the Mario-adjacent theme going.

Reading the Step Colors

Each step image uses a three-color system to show exactly what is new and what is already done:

• Red Color: lines added in the current step.
• Black Color: lines completed earlier.
• Gray Color: base sketch for structure.

How to Draw Mario.EXE: Step-by-Step Tutorial

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Finished the Sketch? Show It Off

Drop your finished drawing in the comments below. Seeing how different people handle the teeth and eye sockets on this one is always worth a look. New tutorials get posted to Facebook and Telegram as soon as they go live, a new YouTube video based on existing guides goes up every single day, and Pinterest stays updated regularly if that is where you prefer to save references. While you are here, Soldier from Mister Jane Doe and Fleetway Sonic Chaos Nightmare are both solid next picks if you want to keep sketching characters with this kind of heavy, threatening line quality. If you want to support the site and get access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages, the Patreon page is the place to do it.