Super Mario has a long roster of projectile enemies, and few are as immediately recognizable by shape alone as Banzai Bill, the oversized cousin of the Bullet Bill family that shows up to fill the entire screen. This step-by-step guide on how to draw Banzai Bill walks through the construction of that heavy cylindrical body, the fierce eye, and the gaping toothed mouth, all drawn from a three-quarter front-left angle with full color and shading included, fitting right into the Super Mario drawing collection on the site.
What Makes This Eight-Step Sketch Work
The tutorial runs through 8 steps and ends on a fully colored result with dark gray shading and highlights across the body. Most of the structural work happens early since the body is essentially one large rounded cylinder, but the detail round in the middle steps is where the character really takes shape. The three-quarter angle adds a slight curve to the collar at the rear and gives the mouth a bit of perspective to work through.
Banzai Bill’s Key Visual Features
- Large dark bullet-shaped body
- Single angry white eye with red accent
- Wide open mouth with jagged white teeth
- Red zigzag tongue inside the mouth
- Cylindrical dark collar at the rear
If you enjoy drawing Super Mario enemies, Buzzy Beetle covers another armored enemy with a compact rounded body, and the Yoshi tutorial is a good follow-up if you want to try something with a more complex silhouette. For boss-adjacent characters, Bowser Jr. is worth adding to the list.
Reading the Step Colors
Each step in this tutorial uses a three-color system to track progress clearly:
- Red Color: lines added in the current step.
- Black Color: lines completed earlier.
- Gray Color: base sketch for structure.
How to Draw Banzai Bill: Step-by-Step Tutorial
Finished the Drawing? Share It
Once the shading is done and the teeth are cleaned up, drop your finished Banzai Bill in the comments below. It helps other people see how the steps translate into a real result, and it is always good to see different approaches to the coloring. New tutorials get posted to Facebook and Telegram as soon as they go live, a new YouTube video goes up every day based on existing guides, and Pinterest stays updated regularly if you prefer saving references there. If you want to keep things going further into the Mario enemy roster, Goomba is one of the simpler builds to tackle next, and the Piranha Plant guide adds a different kind of shape challenge. Supporting the project on Patreon gives you access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages that are not available anywhere else.