Super Mario has always packed its enemy roster with oddball characters, and Monty Mole sits comfortably among the most recognizable burrowing nuisances in the franchise. This step-by-step guide covers how to draw Monty Mole in a cartoonish front-facing pose, with the full color result pulled from the Super Mario tutorial collection.
What Makes This Mole Worth Sketching
The tutorial runs through 10 steps and lands on a fully colored result with cel shading and bold black outlines. The character sits in a wide, spread-limbed pose that looks simple but requires keeping the body symmetry consistent while balancing the chunky proportions. The belly shape and limb placement are where most of the structural work happens.
Monty Mole’s Key Visual Features
- Round orange-brown body, white belly patch
- Squinting eyes, gray nose, buck teeth
- Four limbs spread wide outward
- Large round feet with tan paw pads
- Black-tipped clawed hands and feet
If you enjoy drawing the chunkier characters from the Mario universe, Koopa Troopa follows similar rounded-body logic, while Spiny offers a spikier challenge in the same enemy category. Both pair well with Monty Mole if you are building out a full enemy lineup.
Reading the Step Colors in This Tutorial
Each step uses a three-color system to show what is new, what is done, and what is just structure:
- Red Color: lines added in the current step.
- Black Color: lines completed earlier.
- Gray Color: base sketch for structure.
How to Draw Monty Mole: Step-by-Step Tutorial
Finished Your Mole? Show It Off
Once you have the drawing done, drop it in the comments. Seeing how different people handle the shading and paw details is genuinely useful for anyone else working through the same steps. 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 as well. If you want more Mario characters to practice on, classic 2D Super Mario and Luigi from The Super Mario Bros. Movie are solid next picks. Supporting the project on Patreon also gets you access to unique hand-drawn coloring pages that are not available anywhere else.