How to Draw Super Mario Step by Step

Getting the proportions right on a short, round-bodied figure with arms spread wide is the main challenge in learning how to draw Super Mario, and this guide through the Super Mario character lineup walks you through it cleanly. The slight side angle adds a bit of rotation to the body that makes placement trickier than a straight-on pose.

What This Step-by-Step Drawing Covers

This is a full-body, colored drawing of Mario in a celebratory pose with both arms raised out wide. The 13 steps build from a rough structural sketch to a finished result with flat colors, so the tutorial covers both the construction phase and the coloring pass. Most of the detail work lands on the overalls, cap, and gloves, and the body angle means the midsection needs some care to keep the proportions looking solid.

Mario’s Key Visual Features

Red cap with M emblem on head
Black mustache, blue eyes, open mouth
Red shirt under blue overalls, yellow button
White gloves, arms raised outward
Brown boots on feet

If you want to keep going after finishing Mario, Yoshi and Boo are solid next picks from the same universe, and cat Mario offers a fun design twist on the same base character.

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 Super Mario: Step-by-Step Tutorial

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Finished Super Mario drawing from Super Mario

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Finished Your Mario? Show It Off

Drop your finished drawing in the comments below so others can see how it turned out. 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 too. If you want to keep building out the crew, check out Luigi or head over to Birdo for more characters from the same franchise. Supporting the project on Patreon helps keep new tutorials coming and gives you access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages as well.

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