How to Draw Nintendo Heroes and Villains

Cover art of the book.

How to Draw Nintendo Heroes and Villains was a book written by Michael Teitelbaum and illustrated by Ron Zalme. Published in 2000, it shows how to draw Nintendo's famous characters such as Mario, Donkey Kong, and Link. A lot of the images the book teaches to draw are rendered artworks of the various characters from their respective games.

Drawings

The drawings go in order as they appear in the book:

The Kerog error.

• Mario (close-up of his head only)
• Mario
• Luigi (head only)
• Luigi
• Princess Toadstool
• Toad
• Yoshi
• "Kerog" (Bowser)
• Wario (head only)
• Donkey Kong (head only)
• Donkey Kong
• Diddy Kong
• Tiny Kong
• Chunky Kong
• Snide
• King K. Rool
• Link (Ocarina of Time)
• Link's Body (Ocarina of Time)
• Princess Zelda (Ocarina of Time)
• Armos
• Lizalfos

Trivia

• Bowser was infamously called Kerog by mistake; this was fixed in the successor How to Draw Nintendo Greatest Heroes & Villains.
• Tiny Kong and Chunky Kong's artwork are the only artworks based on their in-game models and not their rendered models.
• Despite assisting the Kongs in Donkey Kong 64, Snide is labeled as a "villain."