Guide to the *MARIO* Art Style

my name is dog shoddy and when I draw I don't have an art style what I do is mimic a unique style I see so when I'm asked how do you do that I thought it would be a good idea to make a video series where I just show you welcome to Art stylist my new video series where I break down your favorite art styles from popular video games cartoons and Anime for our first episode I'm going to be talking about Mario which in my opinion has some of the best art styles my challenge to draw three separate cha

racters with each one covering a unique Mario art style so with all that said and done let's start with our first character foreign [Music] this is a 2d Mario art style which some of you may recognize from literally every piece of Mario merch in existence not only is this the most popular Mario Style it's also very nice to look at now the character I'm drawing is a deeper she's the girl from the Super Mario Sunshine space World trailer no one knows who this character is which means I have free r

eign let me break it down for you the lines of 2D Mario are smooth and bold but everything hinges on the Langley for those who don't know line weight is length thickness the heavier the weight the thicker the line now take the character I drew for example not every line is the same weight what I like to do is go relatively bold for the general outline of the character will slightly increase the size when drawing the clothes and the hair and go smaller when drawing details like the face or the fi

ngers you can also increase the size when you want to place emphasis on something the best example of this in the official art is Mario's nose it has a bolder line than the rest of his face making it stand out more [Music] draw the size and shape of your lines depends on your hand pressure this naturally creates something called a taper where the line becomes smaller as it reaches its endpoint while some of the lines in 2D Mario taper like the fingers or parts of the hair there's specific instan

ces where they crop or cut off instead you usually see this in areas like the arms and in Mario's case his nose the color scheme of 2D Mario standardized which means Nintendo uses the same palette for everything drawn in that style because of this I think it's best to take existing Mario art and I drop the colors you want to use I personally do this for everything I draw not just Mario so this will be one of the few times I bring up color for our character here I've taken colors from Mario's fac

e overalls and buttons I'm also using colors I dropped from agumba Pauline and this creature of Luigi don't forget to eye drop colors from the Shadows too because you're going to use that [Music] Moody Mario shading is distinct but simple to replicate the Shadows are usually gradients but you can use an airbrush tool for more Precision for the most part the darkest part of the Shadow is never flush with the line work there's usually a lines with gap between the two acting as this Style's version

of reflective light what I like to do is place a layer mask over the shadows and erase the lighting into existence the only exception to this rule is hair which is usually just a straight gradient nor racing required [Music] this is the 2D style also features a cast Shadow or a drop shadow this is most commonly used beneath a character's head or in Mario's case below his mustache for the character I am drawing I also use it underneath their hat and below her dress as for the highlights the top

corner of the character will be slightly lighter in color opposite from the Shadows the light reflection in the eye varies Case by case but in general the shine is drawn inside the pupil for males and in between the pupil and Iris for females ha ha foreign [Music] Super Mario Strikers the word I would use is chaos so it's no surprise that the art cell representing this game is such a far cry from the happy-go-lucky art we've been previously mimicking speaking of mimicry the character I'm drawing

is the unused sidekick model from the game more specifically the non-descript Mario lookalike [Music] the ones for the striker style can be a bit overwhelming at first but it's actually really simple if you think about it the technique we'll be using is called chicken scratching which is when you draw really short lines repeatedly following a path this is actually what most new artists do when they're first starting out in the case of Super Mario Strikers we'll dial this up to 11 make the short

marks longer and let the lines overshoot and overlap even disconnect sort of like grabbing a rock and trying to scratch your name onto concrete the rougher it looks the better [Music] shading itself can be broken down with a few techniques with the most important being cross hatching where you repeatedly draw multiple lines parallel to each other and again in the opposite direction you'll first want to block out the general location of your shadows with a darker base and build from there then t

o enhance the contrast of the Shadow you'll start cross hatching using darker colors eventually moving on to black highlights are much simpler you can just block out a lighter color using a brush no cross hatching required the art style is a whole seem scary to tackle but you surprisingly have a lot more leeway than the 2D Mario Style so have fun with that [Music] foreign [Music] I'm talking about the Mario Luigi RPG series produced by video game development company Alpha juice hence the name th

e style I'm breaking down comes from Mario and Luigi partners in Time and Bowser's Inside Story specifically as I believe it's a more refined tape on Superstar Saga without the glitz and glamor of Dream Team the character I'm drawing is a fan favorite Gino from Super Mario RPG a character who actually cameoed in Mario and Luigi's Superstar Saga the alpha dream art style can be best described as very vibrant and also a very waxy almost as if it's drawn using colored pencils or pastels as such the

tools I use will reflect the medium for the line work I'll be using the design pencil the type of pencil tool that layers color more heavily than the regular pencil it's not required but it'll let me draw the lines faster and at the same time give me the rough Edge I want apart from the outline which is noticeably Bolder than the rest the lines are relatively uniform and features standard taper on both ends but you should be aware that there are also instances such as wheat Peach's hair or some

of the tapering can even fade out of it the shading style of alpha dream is a rough painterly gradient made with tools ranging from brushes to pastels for me I just use a colored pencil tool and I set the brush size to be relatively large when shading specific Parts I personally start out around the middle slowly building up color as I reach the edge of the line using the same tools I cleaned it up a bit by erasing what I don't want as for the highlights I use the same tools to slightly lighten

the corners opposite of the Shadows you don't want to make it too harsh this style also features reflective light just like 2D Mario but instead of erasing these Shadows we'll apply Color to the edges using the same tools we use for shade it will vary based on where you're drawing but the color will always hover around a cool gray The Only Exception would be anything white because you're better off just erasing some of the Shadow with the brush [Music] because Gino was a wooden doll I took the

time to find anything wooden in the official art and mimic any texture I find in my case I took a lot of inspiration from toadsworth's cane in this specific piece of art this tip isn't really necessary but going the extra mile with small details like these is always worth the effort in my opinion and there we have it three characters three art styles thanks for watching if you enjoyed this video leave a like and a comment letting me know what art styles you want to see next And subscribe if you

want to see more videos until next time stay creative foreign