Let’s learn how to draw a Poptropica character! This step-by-step guideย is easy to follow, so grab a pencil and paper and let’s get started.
The diagrams show the current step in blue. Previous steps in the same picture are shown in black (excluding step #19). The Poptropican on the left will be our model for this how-to guide. Keep in mind that you don’t have to make your drawing look exactly like a regular Poptropican! Feel free to use your imagination and invent your own clothes, details, and accessories.
Drawing Steps
- Head: Begin by outlining the head, which looks like a sideways oval shape.
- Right Eye: Draw a much smaller circle on the top-right of this oval, which will be the right eye. Erase the intersecting line inside the eye.
- Left Eye: Next to the right eye, add another circle to the left, but slightly smaller. This is the left eye. Erase the intersecting line inside the eye.
- Hair: Outline the character’s hairstyle on the top. What this looks like depends on the hairstyle you want your character to have. Make sure the outline connects with the rest of the head (touches the eyes and/or head).
- Mouth: Draw the mouth under the eyes (but still inside the head’s outline, of course). What this looks like depends on the type of mouth you want your character to have. You could even have a small part of a tongue or large fang sticking out of the head’s outline a little bit. If the mouth has parts (such as teeth) overlapping the outline of the head, erase the unecessary line(s) it causes.
- Eyelashes: If the Poptropican you are drawing is a girl, add eyelashes above the eyes. (Skip this step if the character is a boy.)
- Eyelids: This step is optional. You can add eyelids to the eyes (sleeping/closed, angry, half-open, etc), or give the eyes a special effect (hypnotic, clothing dummy (an x in the middle of each eye), etc).
- Pupils: Draw a round dot in both eyes. These are the eye pupils. Make sure that the pupils and eyelids do not intersect. Congratulations, you have finished drawing the head! Let’s move on to the body.
- Torso: Under the Poptropican’s head, outline the body, which looks like a vertical oval shape. It is important that the body and head do not touch, because Poptropicans usually have ”floating heads”, and they don’t have a neck.
- Separation: Draw a horizontal line inside the body, to seperate it into two halves. (It may look better if this horizontal line was made slightly below the middle of the oval body, rather than exactly in the middle.) This seperates the top (shirt) from the bottom (pants/skirt).
- Arms: Draw a line on both sides of the body; these are the arms. Make them as flexible as you want: these arms could be pointing straight ahead or at the ground, just be resting on the sides, the arms could be folded, or even raised up in victory!
- Hands: At the end ofย both arms (the lines in step #11), draw a little ball to represent a hand. If you’re planning on adding a handheld item later (like a gun or basketball), leave some room around the hands for it.
- Legs: Draw two vertical lines below the pants/skirt part of the body, and make sure that they are connected with the body. Like with the arms, you can choose what kind of position you’d like the legs to be in: are they crossed together, standing straight up, nervously shaking like jelly, or crouching?
- Feet: Add a blob-shaped foot at the end of each leg. You can have them bent or in a normal position. Try having the left foot slightly shorter than the right, so that they don’t overlap.
- Accessories: This is the fun part! Decorate your Poptropican with some cool accessories, like face scars, freckles, hair clips (girls), and more! Consider adding a handheld item, such as a gun (with something shooting out of it?), ball (basketball, football,ย bowling ball, baseball, etc.), cell phone, microphone, pencil, pretzel, sword, paper scroll, and loads more. Normally, Poptropicans don’t have shoes to wear, but why not give it a shot?
- Belt: This is optional, but you could also add a belt (not recommended if you are drawing a dress). Add more to the horizontal line you drew on step #10; make it thicker. You could draw a buckle in the middle,ย and evenย strap a weapon/pouch/rope to the edge of the belt.
- Top: Decorate your top (shirt)! Put in a design (like stripes) all over your top, or a symbol/picture in the middle, like a lightning bolt or star. You could also put a collar, zipper, some buttons, or a logo in the corner. Also, add a neck accessory such as an island medallion or scarf, and maybe a vest or jacket over the shirt!
- Pants/Skirt: If you’re drawing a skirt, make its outline, then erase unnecessary lines. If you are drawing pants, then you don’t have to add more lines. If you wish to, you can add extra paterns on your pants or skirt, such as adding checker-patterns, patches, or something else.
- Color: Looking good! The final step is adding some color. Get your favorite coloring utensils (crayons, colored pencils, oil pastels, paint, markers, etc.) and fill in those empty spots with beautiful shades of color!
- Completed: Congratulations, you’re done! Step back and admire your amazing piece of artwork. Show it off to your friends and family, and when you think you’ve mastered the basics shown above, you can try drawing Poptropicansย doing special actions – such as playing with a guitar or shooting with a bow and arrow!
Here’s another version of the steps by MalachiBoaz, drawing a female Poptropican. Click to enlarge it!
Video: Speed Drawing
Created by Slanted Fish. More Pop videos on theย Poptropica Help Videos (PHV)ย channel.
Video: Drawing Poptropican Heads
Poptropica artist, Jon Pitcher, shares some tips on drawing a Poptropican head.
Poptropican Portraits
Here are a few out of over a hundred Poptropican Portraits from a series by HPuterpop here on this blog, drawing characters from people in the community!
Taking It Further
Drawing a Poptropican outline is just the beginning. You could get even more creative by varying the poses, backgrounds, and more! Here are some more pieces of Poptropica fan art by people in the community for inspiration (there’s more in our DeviantArt group):
Acknowledgements
Weย would like to thank the following for their inspiration that came in handy when writing this guide:
- Sparkle Star (aka Green Seal), who created an Art Page on her Poptropica Updates Blog.
- Cool Wing (aka Tsuki~Yoha), for sharing Sparkle Star’s awesome artwork with us showing us a picture she drew of her Poptropican.
- Shaggy Onion, for giving us some ideas about the steps and showing us a few diagrams.
- Poptropica, for their official Anatomy of a Poptropican wallpapers and of course the invention of the beloved Poptropica characters!
If you found this walkthrough helpful, please rate this page using the five stars below and leave us a comment with your valued feedback! Plus, browse and share more artwork on our DeviantArt group, We-Love-Poptropica.
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I know how to draw these little people and Club Penguin characters.
I also can draw my favorite Reality TV contestant.
Wow this is amazing!! Im certainly using this guide to draw all my poptropicans! Great job! ๐
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COOL! I’ll try it soon!
I want to play it. And i like cookies and all…
shapes and easy steps to draw a poptropican. Cool!!
Awsome!You know the cheat where you hold Ctrl+Shift then press 1,2,3 and 4?U can also draw ur Poptropican doing those!
ST did that on the August Issue of the 911! Check it out, its awesome!!
Fishy, good job on your drawing video.
One word: Cool!
Cool. I’ve learned how to draw a poptropican. ๐
i wish i cuold draw good
Hijuyo: With the guide above, you can easily draw Poptropican people very well. ๐
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What?
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Awesome!
This is great, I’ve learned to draw Poptropicans, and now off by heart! Woohoo!
when I drew my poptropican I pretty much used the same formula here is my drawing link
http://poptropicaforums.co.cc/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=346
On Big Nate I tried before on the chalkboard at the comic shop and I stood there and outlined my charecter and added clothes and it wa just like the one using this!
cool
Only guess what? I didn’t know there was a chalkboard on Big Nate Island
now that is… cool ๐
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Very easy steps to follow… Great job guys!
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I had draw my poptropican before and it maybe look like her in poptropica. The poptropican you draw very beautiful!
YAY i can draw YAY
Cool
I could draw Poptropicans before, but not as good as I can now. Thanks PHB for helping me to draw better Poptropicans!
(P.S. I’ve drawn some Poptropican merpeople and I think they look awesome. And I owe it all to you, PHB.)
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Cool site, love the info.
Great site…keep up the good work.
I want to try drawing a poptropican.
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I think this is awesome! You can design your own Poptropican!
off topic: how do I get the monkey costume?
on topic: how do I DRAW the monkey costume?
Hijuyo: I’m not sure how you can get a monkey costume (but there might be some in multiplayer rooms). Try to imagine a monkey costume and draw it out! ๐
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Thanks this is so cool I draw a girl with white-board pen.
Will some one PLEASE tell me the link to get the poptropica monkey costume (off topic, but there was a post above that mentioned the monkey costume…). Please! I will be in your debt!
Hijuyo: The monkey costume was available on the iCostume some time ago, but the only way you can get it now is by Costumizing someone else with it. ๐
I have it….
man thanks now i know how 2 do it by myself!!!
this helped alot
Wow. I think its good. lol
This is awsome I think I drew mine PERFECT!8-)
There’s an extra to draw if you’re s girl…eyelashes. But anyway, this looks fun! I’m gonna try it!:D
Hijuyo: Eyelashes are covered in step #6. ๐
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i was try it and when i show the picture to my sister she said it was cool ๐
kool! lol i wanted to draw a poptropican and it was in really good detail! ๐
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Hip Hip Hooray! *clink* ๐ I might try drawing my character with the ” Suspicious Liquid ” and his ” Mystery Train Coal Digger ” hat
sounds realy realy awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
do you know why i am drawing it. because for my brother birthday
Hijuyo may I have your permission to copy this onto a word document and print out to store in my folder at home labeled ‘how to draw’? and then can I use this guide to poptropicaize my friends?
Hijuyo: Sure. As long as it’s for your own personal use, and you don’t take credit for the guide and claim it as your own, it’s fine. (The drawings you make are yours, of course.)
awesome.
Awesome really cool i love it now i can draw my character cuz i now how ๐ thx i reall like that im going to brag to my friends now
i luv poptropica i drew it whoo!!!!!!!! this was my first try. the poptropican could be my drawings twin
awsome!!!!
i love this, i drew one, it looks terific!
cool………………………………
That’s really cool and helpful and after i practiced a few times i drew a perfect binary bard!
dont restart early poptropica if you have the hypno costume it disapears so do all ad items
can you make a new won plzzz…:D So so interesting!lol
This is Sooooooooo cool! And i know another accesory for girls. Fairy wings. I’m a girl so i put them on my poptropican. IT LOOKS SO REAL!!!
Hallo!
Hey, I have a notebook and its empty except I am copying down the instructions of how to draw a poptropican. After I copyed down the instructions , I am going to be drawing characters. Can’t wait to draw.
>i> I epicly failed at this ๐
Maybe it’s because I tried it on a computer?
Hope I get it right next time ๐
Thanks i searched everywhere and you had to be a drawing pro,but this is nice,and simple ๐
Awesome! I put a donut in the hands of mine!
make sure you color
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I Love this!!!=)
*sigh* wish i could become a Poptropica creator
Maybe you can someday!
My girlfriend may love this! She thinks this is amazing!
I highly doubt you have a girlfriend!
Why do you so highly doubt it?
I think I know,but I’m not talking.
Oh well never mind.
I drew Super Sky! ( not really ) ๐ฆ
Epic meal TIME!
I needa learn how to draw these cute little people.
But practice makes perfect!
Epic Meal time! Aw, yeah!
Woo hoo! Epic Meal Time!
I think you’re awesome and if you are wondering about my name please!!!!!!!!!! Don’t laugh!!!!!!!!! I’ve heard it all okay, it just brings out bad childhood memories.
I have a different way of doing it. :p
i tried but i cant
Slanted Fish: Practice makes better! ๐
I’m really good at drawing my poptropican. She is Undefined Undefined. Click on the link to see her.
http://www.poptropica.com/avatarstudio/avatar.html?a=bYzdlZFhzWldOaGRHcHZIBVZ6
Hmm… You can’t see me?!? :’-(
*puts hand on shoulder* Yes, I saw her. She was cool.
Hey thanks fer guide I’m a pro now!)
Hello.
i made 20
WATEVER I TURNED TO PRO WHEN I JUST READ ITU THINK IM A LIAR COME TO MY HOUSE AND LOOK AT MY EXPERTISE
Thanks! I needed to know how to make my poptropica book
Thanks
awesome
Thanks! Now I know how to draw my character! ๐
how to draw a gal poptropican?lol:)
Remember, you can edit the basic outline of the Poptropican you drew with the instructions on this page. Add things a girl might wear, such as a skirt or longer hair. Be creative! ๐
Omg good. amazing details, perfect pics, & easy step-by-steps. You, Sir/Ma’am, deserve a cookie. and omg, i just noticed, on your Costumes tab under Cool Stuff, for beach chick that girl’s name is Calm Moon also!!! Kewl cheez.
that’s not a poptropican lol!
My friend, Jewel(alejoyehey), can draw a better Poptropican like that… But this is also cool!!
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Thank you very much
Hey, I’m making a comic starring my Poptropican! I even decided to have him and another guy save a kid who was still on Poptropolis Games WHILE it was sinking! And then all three of them are on a quest to save the whole planet of Poptropica from the evil clutches of Binary Bard and Dr.Hare! P.S. I draw my Poptropican’s eyes first and also the way he’s facing his head is pointy in the front.
Where?
They keep traveling from place to place in the story. I didn’t think about where I would start it up on,though.
Awwwww. I want to see it!
I haven’t finished it yet, but I made it where Dr.Hare actually brainwashed Binary Bard, and he was launching his NEW Rabbot, and he was smart enough to control it himself, this time. Once I’m finished with the comic, I will either upload it to the computer and post it on my blog, or just tell the story on the comments.
Awwww. *falls down*
Aren’t you happy I have it in the process? Better than throwing it in the garbage and forgetting about it, isn’t it?
No.
I mean, yes.
Thought so.
I still have no idea how to draw a poptropican.
Slanted Fish: Well, why not start with following the steps in the guide? ๐
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That’s a long username, isn’t it? You’re lucky to remember it to long in! ๐
I can draw like this. Watch me-
*uses special power, draws with it, and adds color* Ta-da! *drawing comes to life and looks taller than me*
i thought i would never be able to draw a poptropican but those are the easiest instructions to follow. now i can draw a really good poptropican!!! ๐
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Cool! ๐
Friend me! My username is PhineasIzzy. ๐
fun and easy
I want membership, but it cost too much money.
Are you gonna get it this month?
CK: Yes, after star test.
I’m terrible at drawing Poptropican’s even though this is the best guide to drawing Poptropican’s ever!
Try your best! Good Luck! ๐
This is so cool! ๐ I am a really good artist, so this works great for me! And you can do things like draw your favorite book or movie characters as Poptropicans. It is fun! ๐
i do not draw well PHB
this is very helpful thanks!
Awesome! I now know how to draw a Proptropican,except I always fail for the eyes ๐
The PHB could post pictures of artwork people send in created in Poptropica or about Poptropica! Like stuff they made on that little easel in Counterfeit Island, or Big Nate’s chalkboard, or any fan art!