Arms thrown wide open and a grin stretched across that hollow-eyed face, Shinto lands somewhere between a cat mascot and a nightmare, and this guide on how to draw Shinto covers every step of that unsettling design. The character comes from the Friday Night Funkin’ mod roster, where exaggerated expressions and wild poses are standard.
What Goes Into Drawing This Character
The tutorial runs 15 steps from the first rough sketch to the finished line art. No color is involved here, so the entire focus lands on clean, confident linework. The jumping pose with arms spread wide introduces some asymmetry and foreshortening to work through, and the hollow eye sockets and wide grin require steady, deliberate curves to read correctly.
Shinto’s Key Design Features
- Cat-like ears on a rounded head
- Large hollow dark eye sockets
- Wide open grinning mouth, dark fill
- Arms outstretched in jumping pose
- Short stubby legs and rounded feet
If you enjoy mod characters with creepy-cute designs, the guide on JGhost from Vs. Bob and Bosip covers similarly offbeat linework, and Cartoon Cat is another step-by-step sketch in the same creepy animal category. Both pair well with this one as practice for hollow shapes and expressive faces.
Reading the Step Colors
Each step image uses a three-color system to show exactly what is new and what came before:
- Red Color: lines added in the current step.
- Black Color: lines completed earlier.
- Gray Color: base sketch for structure.
How to Draw Shinto: Step-by-Step Tutorial
Finished Your Sketch? Show It Off
Drop your finished drawing in the comments section below. Seeing how different people handle the hollow eyes and open-arm pose is always worth looking at. 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 single day, and Pinterest gets updated regularly too. If you want to keep working through the FNF roster, the walkthrough for Knuckles in Rhythm Rush and the step-by-step for ENA are both worth your time. Supporting the project on Patreon also gets you access to hand-drawn coloring pages that are not available anywhere else.