The Art Style of *MARIO*

Is there an art style you wanna see a video on? Let me know in the comments!

This video has the greatest form of art references from not only just how to do it but breaking down the yes' and the no-no's of the different art styles.

I’ve never been able to move past “chicken-scratch” stage. I mean, I can clean it up afterwards, but drawing smooth lines, especially with a not-so-steady hand can be so challenging and frustrating. I envy those that can draw without sketchy outlines.

NOW THIS IS A NICE VIDEO. As someone who regularly takes commissions to draw characters in these iconic Mario art styles, I found it really insightful to hear your take on them. There were even some tips that I’ve never even noticed, like at 3:28 where male and female characters have different highlights in their eyes. Now whenever someone asks me how I draw in these styles, I’ll simply link them to this video. This is incredibly helpful and it’s surprising to see not that many videos covering it.

0/10 there was no hotel mario art style

I think the one crucial thing you forgot to mention about the Mario strikers artstyle is the posing. Even if we just compare the official art with yours at 4:12, the mario looks way more dynamic, his whole body in the shape of a triangle, the posing of the arms and head both pointing the eye in the direction of the ball. It also uses a bit of forced perspective (notice how his left leg is bigger than the right one) which really makes the whole image pop.

Bro debuted on YouTube with an absolute banger holy crap

one of the cleanest art style tutorials I’ve seen! this is definitely going to help me a lot once I mature enough when it comes to drawing Mario decently

If you ever cover Mario again, I think some good ideas would be Paper Mario, Super Show/DiC cartoons, and Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach.

We have Yoichi Kotabe to thank for the "Mario art style." He also made the 80s anime-style illustrations for the old Zelda games, and art for games like "Mole Mania."

I've often thought about making videos like this, being a bit of a style chameleon myself, but I never did get around to it, and these days I don't think I have the interest anymore. Glad somebody is taking it on! Looking forward to seeing where this channel goes. I'd be interested in seeing what insights you might have to not only rendering a character in a style, but making adjustments to character design to better fit a certain game's design paradigm, since style does encompass not only the linework, lighting, shading, etc, but also the mindset of how anatomy is handled, how elements are simplified or abstracted, etc.

Idk how I found this channel but I enjoy seeing your art on twitter, glad you're now showing how you make your art style drawings

This YouTuber is genuinely underrated wth

This video seems very helpful. It shows how timeless and clean the 2D Mario promo art really is and we can all thank to Yoichi Kotabe and Shigehisa Nakaue (the current artist behind the illustration of Super Mario 3D World) for it.

Incredibly well done video, has to be one of the best art related content I've seen in a while. Really hope you keep on, I'm already loving it!

Wow, this video's genuinely really helpful and concise. I've always wondered how you did this stuff since I followed you all the way back when you did those old art pieces for every Smash Ultimate fighter. Great video!

Glad you’ve finally entered YouTube!

can't believe they scrapped olimar from super mario strikers, smh

Doc, as someone who has been a long time fan of your artwork, following you on Twitter and everything. I really appreciate you make this videos for other future artist a lot.

So glad to see you bringing your talents to the 'Tube! Keep up the good work, Doc!