Mini Chibi Art Class

This book is perfect! I really love it. It has everything you need to know for drawing chibis. For beginners and advanced learners.
You can find the basics, cute chibis, beasty chibis... practice pages. Everything is explained. I am so excited. Pefect!

Being stuck inside during this pandemic has given me a lot of time to do things I've always wanted to. I have always loved the Chibi style art but I am not very good at drawing. My 8 year old and I were excited to learn how to draw the style from this book. It was a little difficult for her because the steps are a little more advanced than step by each step. But we are going to keep practicing and we absolutely love the artwork depicted in this book.

Thank you Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group for an advanced copy of this ebook in exchange for an honest review.

I followed @yoaihime on IG, I like her drawing style. I grew up reading a lot of mangas. I enjoyed so much reading this book too because I draw kawaii things. I haven't try to draw in a chibi style, but after reading this, I want to give a try. In the book, there are a lot of inspirations, how to draw expressions, clothes, hair, etc. Also, it is shown step by step. It is pretty straightforward. The only thing you need to do after reading this book is to practice! No way you can be mastering chibi-style if you haven't followed the instructions there.

This is such an easy guidebook to drawing and it is suitable for all levels. I used to draw quite a bit but have stopped. This is a great way to start again and I couldn't resist wanting to learn how to draw these doll-like characters. Having said that I'm not sure this is suitable for small children as the instructions can be a tad complicating. Still it is very nice to see the end product and the illustrations are lovely and colourful.

MIni Chibi Art Class made learning to draw a little easier. I'm new to drawing but always thought Chibis were cute. This books walks you step by step. The broken dimensions of the bodies made it easy for me to learn the starting shape. I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone who wanted to learn to draw Chibis.

I will definately go back to this book to try more of the practise chibi's in there. I can already tell you all though, that this is a wonderful book that takes you through drawing them step by step. I drew my first chibi's today, and I am pretty proud of how they turned out, all thanks to clear instructions and illustrations that really made me want to try! I desperately need more marker colours though.

This book is on drawing Mini Chibi Art is so cute I really loved it! This has great instructions for beginners it is not super in-depth but has plenty of information to get you started. I believe the fun colors and easy formatting would even make it enjoyable for advanced learners.

You can find all the styles for chibi ranging from clothing, hair, eyes and more it even has practice pages. Everything is explained with basic easy to follow instructions.

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Great Book! Made me feel like I was an artist! It was very detailed and a fun time. I liked how the author gave different examples of different types of characters you can draw and create.

This book is so cute! I know that is the point, but it really is. My daughter loved everything about it and was excited from page to page. It made me want to try some of them too because of how cute and easy they are. I definitely recommend this book to older children, but anyone who is willing will have fun.

I've always loved drawing chibis and other kawaii art. This book is a fantastical guide and resource for creating your own chibi characters and added props. Love all of the different eye shapes provided too! I followed the instructions and had a fun time choosing colors for my chibi's hair and clothes. Great book for anyone who wants to learn to draw in a cute style.

There were great directions and illustrations that make it easy for anyone to give this a try. There was a great variety of different characters to draw. This would be great for any age person who likes to draw.

Brilliant Book ,it's helped me in my sixties on how to go about drawing figures that my Japanese granddaughter will understand , I also showed it to my eldest granddaughter hear in the UK & she loved reading this too,so it covers all age groups .

This is a cute little book with directions and practice pages for drawing Mini Chibi or small manga or anemia figures. Fun and well done.

This is a great breakdown of cute drawing. This would also be great for those who like to draw manga or anime. Simplified face shapes and simplified clothing. The book also goes into detail on the basics of drawing, such as shading and style ideas.

Chibi is Japanese slang for 'short' and it can be both endearing when used with a loved one, or an insult when used inappropriately, so be careful how you employ the term! Here it's used to signify a particular type of art which appears in Japanese manga.

This book sets out to teach the techniques and in my opinion it succeeds. It begins with a brief survey of art materials, and gets quickly onto the basics - designing your character's pose and setting out proportions, and capturing motion. Later it covers lighting and blending colors.

It covers facial features: eyes, nose, mouth, as well as hair design, before leading into specific character creations one for each month of the year!) which you can follow along and draw your own version. It covers even more fantasy-like characters under 'chibi beasties' and it has a section on clothes, props, and accessories.

This was a great book with some really good art, and invaluable instruction for anyone who wants to get into this kind of illustration. I commend it as a worthy read.

This is such a cute book. I have not heard of Chibi before which is why I was interested in this book. The author makes it easy to draw them with the 1 and half head sizes with parallel guidelines.. Love the monthly guide to draw a chibi picture each month. It really makes art accessible. If you like a theme of something in a picture, then you can store it in this form as the hands and legs get easy to draw. I drew few and gave them to my kids to color. Also the suggestions of the scale of filling up the space with a bigger cat are inspiring. Draw on,

I loved this so much! I can not draw for anything, but I always loved the chibi istyle. This how to guide made it super easy to learn with step by step instructions and many different ways to practice. I highly recommend if you want to learn how to draw chibi or if you just want to know some pointers!

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This book is so much fun and has so much information and detail included within it too which is set out in a fun format so children don't get fed up with it.
I loved how on the season/month chibi drawing pages that there was a blank template for children to draw their own version of the character shown or make up their own if so desired.
At the back there are colouring and drawing pages and lots of sketches of eyes, hair, accessories, clothes, shoes etc too.
This is a beautiful and fantastic book to help children get enjoyment from drawing their own Chibi characters step by step.

Mini Chibi Art Class
A Complete Course in Drawing Cuties and Beasties - Includes 19 Step-by-Step Tutorials! by Yoai is a cute art book for children, beginners, or those wanting to learn more about Chibi. Great step-by-step instructions with images to match. Adorable drawings and easy way to have fun! A definite 5 star book! This is a book I requested from NetGalley and the review is voluntary.

Mini Chibi Art Class is a fun tutorial art book full of step by step projects for readers who enjoy the chibi anime style. Due out 19th May 2020 from Quarto on their Race Point imprint, it's 144 pages and will be available in paperback format.

I love to draw and doodle. Despite not being super advanced and skillful yet, I find drawing very relaxing most of the time. This is an accessible guide full of techniques and cheerful upbeat advice. The drawing style itself is completely adorable (chibi ちび translates to 'little'). They're big eyed and round faced with tiny hands.

This guide has an accessible and appealing format. A short introduction is followed by tools and supplies, basic techniques, and then the individual drawing tutorials. The author does a good job of explaining (and showing) proportions for different ages, positions, action and movement, etc. There are a lot of different tutorials but not much variation in facial expression included in this book.

Great selection for a gift for a young artist, perhaps with some added sketch pads and pencils. This would also make a superlative classroom or library book. I would also recommend this one to babysitters, grandparents, parents, and basically anyone who spends a fair bit of time with small kids in order to up their 'draw with me' game. I really enjoyed this. I will use these to decorate my journals and notes for friends.

Four stars. Fun collection.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

This was great! With lots of different tasks and templates it really gave a nice beginners insight into drawing chibi. It's perfect for learning a new skill in lockdown with a very cute outcome.

This is a great book to learn how to draw these small, cute characters. I would not recommend this book for beginner artists. The book provides a thorough introduction to drawing supplies and the anatomy of a chibi. But, the drawing. instructions are complicated and would require the reader to flip back to the instructional material at the beginning while working on the book's projects. The projects are lovely and use a variety of styles and accessories. But, little instruction is given on how to draw the clothes or the accessories used in each project. The detail on how to color each of the projects are some of the best directions I have seen for future colorists. I would recommend this book for the colorist instruction alone. Overall, I would recommend this book for people interested in refining this drawing style.

This super-fun drawing instruction book would be great for any artist, young or old, wanting to up their drawing came. The Chibi characters -cuties and beasties -are adorable and fun to draw. I was successfully able to draw several of them and look forward to trying more!

The cutest book ever! I'm so excited to start drawing these cuties! I love the step-by-step, all the different chibies and at the end there are some inspirations like different hair styles, eye format and color and accessories. I love this book! I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

The thing that set this art book apart from many others for me was the inclusion of the figure sketch for you to work from if needed. Often it's a matter of trying to repeat the steps to get that perfect figure placement and guidelines, and this book instead presents you with a place where, in the beginning, you could easily trace it and then draw your chibi over it...a great tool for beginners who still also need to work on muscle memory (or for those of us who may never get it quite right, in which case, a bonus item like that is gold.

Mini Chibi Art Class by Yoai is a very informative look at how to draw Chibis. It shows how to draw different types from eyes to full bodies.

Mini Chibi Art Class by Yoai


My thirteen year old daughter has been reading manga for several years and drawing in a manga style for almost as long. Needless to say, she was even more excited about the opportunity to help me with a book review than usual.

We’re not familiar with the original Chibi Art class, but a cursory glance online indicates that Mini Chibi Art Class is the same book as the original, only smaller.

For those of you not familiar with manga, “chibi” (shorty) is a style of manga in which the characters are “kawaii” (cute). Chibi characters have big heads and little bodies.

This book is a thorough guide to creating chibis from your own and includes

-materials
-getting the proportions right
-facial features
-clothing
-backgrounds

The biggest section of the book is devoted to a calendar year of chibi characters with seasonally themed poses and props etc. Each month has 2 two-page spreads with step-by-step instructions for recreating the character’s pose.

The next section is devoted to “Beasties”, chibi characters with cat ears or bat wings.

After that, there’s an inspiration gallery with different styles of eyes, props, clothing, etc.

The final section is a place to practice drawing various poses and coloring in completed drawings.

My thirteen year old absolutely loved this book and has asked if we can buy a copy of our own when the book comes out. She has done numerous chibi drawings based on ideas from this book.

I wanted to see what this book would be like for a beginner, so I asked one of my (almost) eleven year old twins to look at the book. She reads manga sometimes and she likes to draw, but she has never really drawn in a chibi style. She was able to pick up the basics right away and produced an ADORABLE self portrait. 


I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in drawing chibi characters. This was a fun and thorough guide and my girls have enjoyed it so much. My thirteen year old has pointed out that that a paperback version of this book would be easier to use than a digital version. I’m not sure if this book will have a digital edition of its own since it’s a mini version of an existing book that does have a digital edition, but that’s something to keep in mind. I will definitely keep an eye out for more of Yoai’s drawing books in the future.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley/Race Point Publishing in exchange for an honest review.

This was so cute and perfect for quarantine right now! I've been wanting to get better at drawing character and I loved the chibi style. The instructions and images are easy to follow which is of course a plus. Definitely would recommend!

I am finally going to learn how to draw Chibis because this is by far the best Chibi drawing book I’ve ever seen. I have several Chibi drawing books and have browsed a few others, but none of them welcomed me with such encouragement and explanation plus an abundance of step-by-step tutorials like this one! Mini Chibi Art Class is a very well organized and user-friendly book. It is just like taking a class in learning to draw Chibis and I can’t wait to go through the multitude of tutorials.

I particularly appreciate that nearly 30% of the book is dedicated to Chibi Basics (more on this later), something that other books cover in only a handful of pages. Yoani starts from the beginning and goes step-by-step through everything you need to know. One of the best features of this book is that for each of the 19 tutorials, Yoani provides an outline of the posing Chibi for the reader to complete by adding its features, clothes and then coloring. In fact, seeing the outlines allayed much of my anxiety about being able to draw Chibis and I figure that once I get the basics perfected by doing all these tutorials, I will feel more confident to draw the outlines.

After a discussion of the supplies, Yoani provides the reader with a thorough review of Chibi Basics — how to draw the body (including proportions), face, hair, clothing, etc. Next, we learn about coloring Chibis and Yoani explains how to choose colors and how to do shading. She even recommends which colors are best to use for shading specific colors, something I have never seen before and it’s inncredibly useful. There are two practice Chibis in which Yoani goes step-by-step in pencil and then coloring.

Part Two consists of 12 adorable Chibi tutorials with each one representing a different month of the year. The Chibis have different poses, expressions, clothes and props so you will get a lot of experience by doing all of these tutorials. There are 5 more tutorials of cute Chibi beasties. Following that is the indispensable Inspiration Gallery, which provides the budding artist with 20+ varieties of eyes, hairstyles, clothing, props/accessories, and ears/tails. The last section is called practice and coloring pages and consists of 12 Chibi outlines in different poses and 6 completed Chibis ready for coloring.

Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group - Race Point Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with a temporary advance e-copy in exchange for my honest review. I will definitely be buying this book.

This is a really cute comprehensive guide to drawing your own little chibis. I would recommend it for anyone who wants to start drawing chibi art!

This is a must have for who loves drawing and doodling.. Chibis are so cute and with the help of this book you can easily learn the basics and practice on how to draw different chibis.

This book is helpful to those who have some experience in art already. I myself enjoy arts but am not very good at it and do not think this is super beginner friendly although the material is super adorable.
I will keep practicing to see if I'll get any better at drawing these cute characters.
Thank you NetGalley for providing me with this arc.

Mini Chibi Art Class is a book all about how to draw Chibi characters.  I'm not much of an artist and even with these step by step details on how to draw a whole bunch of different adorable characters, I didn't get very far.  But there are a ton of ideas in this book with the characters that already exist and then different outfits and hairstyles so you can make things your own!

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review, I was not otherwise compensated.

A fantastic and very thorough guide to drawing Chibi.
This book gives very concise guides on how to draw super cute Chibi characters.
Although not total novices to drawing, myself and my ten year old aren’t the most accurate and talented artists however we both found that by following the instructions and guide pictures we were able to produce some great looking characters.
We both enjoyed the opening section where each Chibi represented a month of the year.
I definitely think this would be a great book for those interested in cartoon or character art and is simple enough to follow for both adults and slightly older children.

I have been debating between 4 and 5 stars with this one. I settled on 4 but it is probably closer to 4.5.

This is a super cute art book. It covers the basics of a chibi character including body, head, hair, clothing, facial features, and props. This is one chapter on cuties and one on beasties. I feel like the only thing keeping this from being 5 stars is some of the characters would have benefit from a few more steps for those who are not familiar with this drawing style. Otherwise, it is a super cute and fun art book.

I've heard of anime but Mini Chibi is a new one on me; it's a mini version of Japanese-style anime and is ever so cute with the tiny bodies and large heads.

The book contains 19 step-by-step tutorials plus inspiration for hairstyles, clothing and more. It provides details of the materials required, along with the basics for sketching a Chibi, clothing, expressions, background and well just loads to get you going.

The book is then divided into 12 cuties, 5 beasties alongside the 2 practise Chibi's. The Inspiration Gallery provides ideas for eyes, hairstyles, clothing, props, ears and tails.

For those that perhaps struggle with starting (that's me!), there are 12 blank Chibi's in various poses that could be traced, which then allow you to add your own features, hair, etc. And finally there are 5 images that can be coloured in; again they could be traced if you'd rather not colour in the page.

Overall this is a great book for those interested in drawing these little characters

I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.

This is a cute beginners guide to Chibi art and I would love to buy my 10 year old a copy. Was really pleased by the idea gallery at the end since it makes the book a tool to continue to use after you have read it and get into drawing your own Chibi characters.

Absolutely enjoyed this book. It had really easy to understand step by step instructions. I enjoyed it very much and will reference in the future! Great book!

I'm one of those people that are seriously lacking in the ability to do art!! While I love EVERYTHING Chibi, I thought this would be impossible to do! Not so, Great step by step tutorials will have you up and going in a short time. It is a fun book as well as an ego booster!!

A perfect guide for new and experienced artists. Chibis are a niche style that are very rarely, if at all, touched upon in more traditional art classes. This book is laid out in a logical, easy to follow manner that genuinely helps improve technique. Not to mention the art style is super cute and is done by a well known online artist.

This drawing masterclass book is just a perfect present for my niece who adores chibis. Everything is clearly explained and if you follow the step by step instructions, you quickly gain basic expertise that allows you to begin create your own chibi characters.
Simply wonderful.

My drawing skill is limited to making stick figures. Anything more than that ends in a disaster, so I didn't know why I picked this book when I started reading it. After finishing it, I have to say that I saw improvement in my drawing skill. The book was very helpful and I feel proud of myself. The book is basically divided into three sections.

The first one is giving the reader tips about the materials and the ways something can be drawn. For example, there is a page dedicated to different eye styles to convert different meanings. I found that useful for people who have some kind of experience with drawing already.

The second section contains the tutorials which was the most helpful to a newbie like me. We get a chibi and there is a step by step guide on how to draw it. By the end of the steps, there is a rough draft of the chibi and the reader has to follow the steps and make one himself.

The final section is used for inspiration on what the reader should make their chibi wear or hold or look like. All of them were kawaii and something I would like to see on a chibi.

I got a digital version, but I believe that the paperback would work better. I enjoyed reading this guide and trying to create a chibi even if my efforts were below the average. I will just have to try harder until I improve!

This book is so darn cute! I love the character designs and the coloring in this art book. The tutorials are fairly easy to follow and include lots of tips. I think with enough practice anyone could become great at making their own chibis with this book! Thank you to the publisher for giving me a review copy of this book.