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 March 2004, 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. Bowser was infamously called Kerog by mistake; this was fixed in the successor How to Draw Nintendo Greatest Heroes & Villains.

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

• 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.