How To Draw Pikachu

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Today, let’s learn how to draw Pikachu from Pokémon. Pikachu is cute and shoots lightning, what isn’t there to love about this cute yellow Pokémon?

Pikachu is one of the most recognizable and well-loved characters by kids and many adults who grew up with Pokémon. It’s not just because Pikachu is a cute yellow mouse with red cheeks. Pikachu is so popular because of his adorable personality. Who wouldn’t want to have a Pikachu as a pet?

Pikachu’s eyes are small, very simple, rounded and black. A lot of our drawings use this exact same style of eye, so we don’t need to change anything on Pikachu to make him look kawaii or fit with our art style.

If you want to start with a Pokemon that is a little bit easier, you can check out our other tutorial to learn how to draw Jigglypuff.

Did You Know? 
Pikachu Recharges With Electricity When It Sleeps
Pikachu loves Ketchup
Pikachu will attack anything that pulls its tail.

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Art Supplies

Here’s a list of coloring supplies we recommend to use, however, feel free to use whatever you can find around the house!

If you are already a fan of a particular marker/coloring brand you may want to check out a few of our other guides such for popular brands such as Ohuhu markers, Artzea and Prismacolor markers.

Otherwise, just pick whatever coloring tools you have around the house (crayons, markers, pencil crayons etc.) and just have some fun!

A Few Tips Before You Start Drawing

  • Pikachu has long, skinny/thin ears. Try not to make them look too thick.
  • Pikachu’s tail is shaped like a lightning bolt. It sticks up in the back and goes up to and sometimes above the head in height.

Let’s Draw Pikachu – Step By Step

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Step 1: For the head, draw 3 separate curved lines. Leave some space between each line, so they do not connect to eachother.
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Step 2: Draw the ears from the empty spaces on the top of the head. Try to avoid making the ears too thick.
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Step 3: Start with the left most line and draw up. Do the fingers then draw a line back down into the head line.
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Step 4: Start with the top line and draw towards the fingers then down and back inside.
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Step 5: Draw 2 slightly rounded lines going down on each side to form the body.
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Step 6: Finish off the body and draw 2 feet.
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Step 7: Start on the bottom and zig zag like a lightning bolt until the top. Go around and back down.
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Step 8: Fill in the red areas above with black or close to black color.
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Step 9: For the eyes, leave little white circles inside and color the rest black.
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Step 10: Draw a little filled circle for the nose. Then draw the mouth.
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Step 2: Pikachu has 2 large red circles on it’s face. Draw and color those in with a red color.
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Step 12: Now you just need to color to finish Pikachu. You can add a bit of shading if you’d like but it is not necessary. Great work!

Want More?

We’ve made a lot of tutorials on how to draw kawaii characters and objects. Great for beginners and more advanced artists. We have printable step by step instruction guides to help you learn to draw all of our tutorials.

Or maybe you want to color? We have printable kawaii coloring pages. Head on over to our coloring page section of our website to search and download them all!

Just want to download a coloring page of this specific character? Click the print button below to print off this lesson’s coloring & tracing pages.

Printable Pikachu Coloring Page

Here’s where you can download the Pikachu coloring page & step by step instructions. You can use the coloring page to practice coloring the character and the step by step instructions are great if you are not near a computer or phone and want to try this lesson out!

Click the print icon to open print options for these pages. You can also click the image and save it directly to your device.

Download Printable Pikachu Coloring Page

Pikachu Coloring Page

Download Printable Instructions: How To Draw Pikachu

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How To Draw Pikachu Step by Step

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Are you interested in coloring more?

Coloring characters such as Pikachu can be A LOT of fun. Especially when they look so cute : )

If you had fun coloring this character, you may want to check out our kawaii coloring book which is available at Amazon. We also have some information on our site for more complex coloring for older kids and adults. You can check out our favorite adult coloring books and some of our top choices for color by number books for adults (which tend to be easier to start with).

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