How to draw MX (Mario’s Madness)

Rendering heavy black fill areas without losing structure is the core skill this guide builds, and MX from the Friday Night Funkin’ roster is the subject that puts that skill to work in all 31 steps. Learning how to draw MX means figuring out how to handle a design where shadow and solid fill carry most of the visual weight rather than outline detail alone.

What Makes MX a Different Kind of Drawing Challenge

The tutorial runs 31 steps and ends on clean line art, so there are no color decisions to worry about, but the heavy black fill on the face and overalls means solid area placement needs to be deliberate from early on. The hunched forward pose adds some foreshortening to the torso, and the large gloved fists sit prominently in front of the body, which shifts the balance of the composition away from center. That combination of filled shadows and an off-center weight makes this one of the more structural exercises in the series.

MX’s Design at a Glance

• Rounded cap with circular emblem on top
• Dark shadowed face, wide toothy grin
• Bulbous round nose, prominently centered
• Dark overalls, two buttons, white shirt
• Large gloved fists, hunched forward pose

If you enjoy drawing characters with heavy contrast and creepy aesthetics, the Pibby Corrupted Spinel and Rallo Tubbs Pibby Corrupted guides cover similar dark-fill territory. Tac from FNF Maginage Matches is another solid follow-up if you want to keep working with unusual character silhouettes.

Reading the Step Colors in This Tutorial

Each step image uses a three-color system to make progress easy to follow:

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

How to Draw MX: Step-by-Step Tutorial

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Finished MX? Show the Result

Once the line art is done, drop your finished drawing in the comments. Seeing how different artists handle the solid fill areas on the face and overalls is genuinely useful for anyone working through the same steps. All new tutorials go up on Facebook and Telegram as soon as they are published, a new YouTube video based on existing guides goes live every day, and Pinterest stays updated regularly, so those are good places to catch new content. If you want to try related characters from the same roster, Guball Watterson and Brian from FNF x Pibby are worth tackling next. Supporting the project on Patreon also gets you access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages not available anywhere else.