How to draw Valentine from Skullgirls

Skullgirls built its roster around fighters with sharp visual identities, and Valentine fits right into that pattern as the game’s deadly combat nurse, covered in the Skullgirls category alongside the rest of the cast. This step-by-step tutorial breaks down how to draw Valentine from head to flat shoes, working through her full-body standing pose across 34 steps.

Valentine’s Design and What Makes This Drawing Tricky

The tutorial runs 34 steps and ends on clean line art rather than a colored version, so the entire focus goes toward line confidence and proportion. The figure is in a slightly angled standing pose, and the cross-shaped weapons strapped to her legs add some geometry work near the feet that takes a bit of patience to get right.

Valentine’s Key Visual Features

• Spiky hair with cross-marked nurse cap
• Face mask covering the lower face
• Nurse outfit with multiple cross symbols
• Cross-shaped weapons strapped to both legs
• Bandage-wrapped legs with flat shoes

If you want to keep drawing through the Skullgirls cast after this, Ms. Fortune and Squigly are both covered on the site, and Cerebella is another good next step with her own set of challenges.

Reading the Color Coding in the Step Images

Each step 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 Valentine: Step-by-Step Tutorial

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Finished Your Valentine Sketch? Show It Off

Once the line art is done, drop your finished drawing in the comments. It helps other people see what the result looks like and gives you a record of your progress through the Skullgirls character lineup. 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 collect references. For more Skullgirls practice, Filia and Teen Parasoul are both worth working through. If you want to support the project and get access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages, the Patreon page is the place to go.