Even a novice artist can draw Mabel from Gravity Falls. To make the drawing neat, you need to follow a certain order of actions. Step-by-step instructions will help you create beautiful portrait of a favorite character fast and easy.
How to draw a portrait of a cheerful Mabel step by step
Mabel's drawings from Gravity Falls can be used for personal journals, sketchbooks, posters, or card decorations. In the cartoon, Mabel has a cheerful and eccentric character, so she is most often drawn as cheerful.

How to draw a portrait of a heroine from the waist up:
- First, you need to make some sketches. The character's head is oval-shaped, slightly widening towards the bottom. The neck should be drawn short and thin.
- It is necessary to indicate the position of the arms. They can be drawn raised, stretched out in front of you, bent at the elbow or lowered.
- Since the cartoon heroine wears baggy clothes, there is no point in building precise body proportions. It is enough to indicate the position of the arms and the thickness of the torso with barely noticeable lines.
- Next, you need to work on the details of the face. Mabel has large, round eyes, plump cheeks, and a wide mouth. Her nose is not large, but upturned.
- When drawing eyes, you need to mark the eyelids and draw 3 eyelashes. The pupils should be small, round and completely black.
- Draw thin arched eyebrows and outline the ears.
- When smiling, the girl opens her mouth wide, so you need to draw the teeth. The drawing style in the cartoon does not imply full detailing, so the line of the teeth is indicated schematically, with 1 smooth line.
- The heroine of the series has braces on her teeth. They, like the teeth, are depicted schematically, in the form of small rectangles.
- Now you need to draw the outlines of the clothes. The sweater should have large folds in the waist area and in places where the arms bend.
- The collar of the sweater can be drawn high, hiding half of the neck.
- Minimalistic design on clothes is a distinctive feature of the character. You can depict a star or a unicorn.
- Now you need to draw the hands. In the cartoon, the characters have 4 fingers, which makes the work much easier. They should be short and rounded at the ends. The palms are round and small.
- Draw Mabel's hairstyle. She usually wears her hair loose with a narrow headband that matches the color of her sweater. It is important not to forget about the small tuft on the top of her head. It can be depicted as 2 protruding oval-shaped strands.
Once the portrait is ready, it needs to be colored. For the body, you should choose a skin tone. On the cheeks, depict a blush in the form of pink circles. Clothes and a headband on the hair can be painted in any color. Braces should be painted gray or dirty blue.
Mabel Pines Full Body Drawing Step by Step
Drawings of Mabel from Gravity Falls can easily be done full-length. To make the portrait beautiful and proportional, it should be done step by step. Step-by-step drawing instructions will help beginners draw Mabel in full growth.
Outlines of the figure
Drawing any characters begins with constructing a schematic drawing. Simple contours are typical for the characters from the cartoon Gravity Falls.
To draw Mabel Pines correctly, you will need to do the following:
- Using a simple pencil, divide the sheet into 2 equal parts. This line should be barely noticeable so that it can be easily removed with an eraser. The line serves as an axis, focusing on which the left and right sides of the drawing will be proportional.
- The size of the character should be indicated with short horizontal lines. The upper mark is placed in the area of the crown, and the lower one is where the girl's sole will be.
- Now you need to make the same marks, dividing the distance from the head to the shoes into zones. First, mark the size of the head. Put a line from the crown to the chin.
- Then mark the neck line and shoulder width.
- Use thin lines to indicate the position of the arms. Mark where the elbows and hands will be.
- Mark the width and length of the body to the waist.
- Show where the pelvis and hips will be.
- Use thin lines to indicate the position and length of the legs. Mark the level of the knees and feet.
All marks should be made with a simple pencil. It is better to get rid of the tool with the T2 or TM mark. Traces from such pencils are easy to erase.
Hair
To make it easier to navigate and draw the girl in the correct proportions, you need to mark the hairline, as well as the shape of the hairstyle.
Step by step instructions:
- Draw an oval head. The oval should widen in the area of the chin and cheeks.
- From the front, Mabel's haircut is square with rounded edges. There is no clear hairline. So from the middle of the crown, you need to step down a little and mark this area with a dot. Here, the hair will be divided into 2 parts.
- Draw 2 lines to the cheeks. Indicate the division of the hair into 2 parts.
- The girl's hair goes behind the ears and is waist-length. At the bottom, it should be curly, which can be depicted schematically, with a wavy line.
On the crown, separate 2 short semicircular strands. They should be tilted to the right.
Face and ears
How to design a face:
- Divide the oval into the eyebrow, eye, nose and mouth areas.
- The eyes should be drawn large and round. They are placed very close to each other, in the middle of the face.
- The pupils should be small and black. It is important that they are directed in one direction.
- Draw 2 curved eyelashes and thin, raised eyebrows above the eyes.
- The nose is located directly under the eyes, clearly in the middle. It has an upturned, round shape.
- Next, you need to draw a wide smile. It should be curved with rounded edges.
- The teeth in the mouth may not be indicated at all if a wide smile is implied. It is enough to indicate the shape of the braces.
- Draw even circles on the cheeks. They will be blush.
Mabel's ears need to be drawn parallel to each other, placed on the sides of the head, in the cheek area.
Clothing detailing
The girl Mabel prefers to wear voluminous turtleneck sweaters and skirts.
How to draw clothes correctly:
- Mark the collar area. The neck should remain slightly visible. The collar should be slightly narrower than the cheeks. It should be decorated with an "elastic band" by drawing horizontal lines. It is important that the lines correspond to the curves of the material. If they are too even, the texture of the soft sweater will look unsightly.
- Next, mark the shoulder level and outline the armpit area. Draw voluminous sleeves.
- Draw the body from the armpit area. The top of the sweater is narrower than the bottom. On the waist, mark the edge of the sweater with a smooth semicircular line, as if the clothes are tucked into the skirt.
- The character should always have a small design on the chest in the form of a simple applique on a sweater. This could be a star, a rainbow, or a unicorn.
- At the bottom, you need to draw a short flared skirt. Its edge should be marked with a wavy line.
The shoes and high socks that Mabel wears are drawn after the outlines of her legs are completed.
Drawing legs and arms
Since the sleeves of the girl's sweater are long, you don't have to draw the arms completely. It's enough to show 3-4 fingers.
How to draw legs:
- The character has straight legs, without any emphasis on real human anatomy. Therefore, they should be drawn with short parallel lines.
- In the knee area, draw horizontal lines along the legs. This will be the elastic band from the socks.
- The feet are drawn very simply. They are teardrop-shaped and point in different directions.
Shoes can be marked with a thin line running along the feet and repeating their shape.
Coloring the character
Mabel's drawings from Gravity Falls should be colored according to the original. The color of the clothes can be changed at will. The table shows the main colors needed, as well as the parts of the drawing that need to be painted with them.
Color | Area to paint |
Dark brown | Hair |
Light pink | Blush on the cheeks |
Leather tone | Face, arms and legs |
Dirty blue or gray | Braces on teeth |
Before adding color to the drawing, you must erase all the extra lines. You can read more about how to color a picture with different materials later in the article.
With pencils
How to color a drawing with colored pencils correctly:
- First, you need to apply light shades. Paint Mabel's face, hands and feet.
- Add pink color to the cheeks.
- Then you can move on to bright colors. You can paint the sweater pink, yellow or bright green.
- The skirt can be made dark and painted purple, blue or green.
- Now you need to color the hair brown and the shoes with a black pencil.
To make the drawing clearer, it is outlined using a simple pencil marked M. The outline should start from the top part, so as not to accidentally smear the graphite on the paper with an awkward movement of the hand.
With paints
You can paint Mabel's portrait with watercolors or gouache.
Watercolor is a translucent paint. It must be applied in several layers.
Just like when coloring with pencils, you should start with light shades. To get skin color using gouache, you need to mix orange paint with white.
Watercolor can be applied in 1 layer. Orange paint can be diluted with water and painted on the face, legs and arms.
After the light shades, you can use bright ones and paint the girl's clothes. Before this, you need to let the light shades dry. Dark colors are applied last.
The outline can be done with black paint. You will need 2 brushes of different thickness. The thicker one should outline the main contours, and the thin one should highlight the details. The eyes, mouth and nose should be outlined carefully.
It is not recommended to outline braces. They can create an unnecessary accent on the face and change the design. Let them remain uncircled. It is enough to color the squares gray.
With felt-tip pens
It is more difficult to beautifully color a picture with felt-tip pens than it might seem at first glance. It is difficult to find a color for skin coloring in the palette. Most likely, such a shade does not exist. In this case, you can color Mabel's face and body with pencils or leave it white.
Experienced artists recommend storing old markers in light pink and orange shades. They can be filled with alcohol or water. Since the pigment in such markers is running out, the colors are delicate and translucent. You need to draw carefully with old markers, because they can spread.
The order remains the same - first light tones, then bright and dark at the end. You can't run the felt-tip pen tip over the same area several times. The paper will roll up from friction, and the drawing will look untidy. It's better to use a special technique called "coloring with stripes."
Step by step instructions:
- Use an old felt-tip pen to outline the girl's face along the kennel. Now fill in this outline with vertical strokes. The lines should be straight and close to each other, without gaps.
- The blush area should be left empty. Also, paint the legs and arms of the character with even lines.
- Use a pink marker to outline the blush. Now paint the circles with a spiral line, starting from the center. It is important that the line is not interrupted and has no gaps.
- To color the sweater, you can take pink and yellow. Outline the sweater with pink, along with the folds. Be sure to outline the drawing, for example, a star.
- Change the marker to yellow and carefully paint over the applique on the clothes using straight strokes.
- Paint the sweater pink. The strokes can be made strictly vertical or painted following the contour shapes. To do this, thicken the contour, tracing it over and over again until the lines merge into a solid color in the center. In this case, the sleeves and the front of the garment are painted separately.
- Outline the skirt and color it with horizontal lines.
- Shoes can be colored with horizontal lines.
The drawing must be completely dry before the final tracing. The contours should be traced with a black marker. Where the line should be thicker, you can press lightly on the felt-tip pen; in places where the contours are thin, you do not need to press.
You should carefully outline your eyebrows and eyelashes. Highlight your pupils. Again, leave the braces unlined, otherwise they will look ridiculous. The design on the sweater should also be outlined with a thin black line so that it stands out.
Drawing Mabel Pines from the animated series Gravity Falls is not difficult. To make the drawing neat, you need to follow the correct order of applying colors when coloring, and watch the movement of your hands.
To avoid accidentally smearing pencil graphite or felt-tip pen pigment on the paper, you can place a clean sheet of paper under your hand.
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