How to Draw Chibi John Cena

You can see him, despite what is written on his cap. Here we will show you how to draw chibi John Cena in a very simplified style.

We will show you how to make the character recognizable in such a minimalist style, with such heavily altered features and proportions.

How to draw chibi John Cena step by step

Step 1: Sketch the large head

Start by sketching John Cena’s large, rounded head. Make the upper part slightly wider. Next, draw two intersecting guidelines across the face. These lines will help you position the eyes and other facial features later.

Step 2: Draw the small body

Sketch the torso beneath the head, then add the short arms and legs. The body should be about the same height as the head. Keep the shoulders narrow and the limbs simple, without drawing the muscles or other small details.

Step 3: Outline the cap, eyes, and shorts

Now let’s add some recognizable details to our chibi John Cena drawing. Using light lines, sketch the baseball cap on the head, with its brim extending to the side. Below the brim, outline the large eyes, placing them along the facial guidelines. Then draw the contours of the shorts, separating them from the torso and marking the legs.

Step 4: Draw the large expressive eyes

In this step, draw the chibi eyes of the famous wrestler. Refine their rounded outlines and add the pupils and irises. Shade the dark parts of the eyes with hatching, leaving small white highlights to make them look more lively. Draw the mouth using a short, slightly curved line, then erase the unnecessary facial guidelines.

Step 5: Detail John Cena’s baseball cap

Now draw the baseball cap more carefully, refining its crown and curved brim. Add John Cena’s famous hand gesture logo to the front of the cap. If you like wrestling, you probably recognize this symbol from his signature “You Can’t See Me” gesture. Keep the logo relatively simple.

Step 6: Refine the T-shirt and arms

Now it’s time to draw the T-shirt and arms. This is a fairly easy task because we don’t need to draw individual fingers. Refine the outline of the shirt, adding its neckline and short sleeves. Draw the bent arms with the hands resting on the hips. Then erase the unnecessary construction lines from the upper part of the chibi John Cena drawing.

Step 7: Finish the shorts and shoes

Draw the final contours of the shorts, including the lower edges of each leg. Refine the short legs and add the shoes beneath them. Remove the remaining construction guidelines to complete your chibi John Cena drawing. You can leave it as a clean line drawing or color it and add a few simple shadows with hatching.

Chibi characters can be drawn in different styles and genres, but they usually share several distinctive features:

• The head is much larger in relation to the body, often taking up one-third to one-half of the character’s total height.
• Facial features and body shapes are greatly simplified.
• The body is often drawn with rounded, slightly plump shapes to make the character look younger and cuter.

When you draw a realistic character, your goal is to reproduce his facial features, figure, and clothing as accurately as possible. This is what makes the character recognizable. If you draw a slightly simplified version, you still try to preserve the recognizable features while making them more minimalist.

But when you draw a chibi character, trying to keep the features as close to the original as possible goes directly against the main principle of chibi, which is maximum simplification. As a result, the number of techniques you can use to make the character recognizable becomes much smaller.

The most accessible of these techniques is to depict the characteristic elements of clothing. In this case, these are his cap, T-shirt, and denim shorts. His facial features, as you can see, differ very little from those of any other chibi character.

In other words, the main principle here is to draw a chibi character following all the steps we have discussed many times before, but dress him in the characteristic clothing we are used to seeing this particular character wear.