How to Draw Shoto Todoroki from My Hero Academia Step by Step Tutorial
While Horikoshi Sensei’s iconic new age Shonen manga turned
anime My Hero Academia is one of the most successful and popular one these days
with very interesting, powerful and attractive characters, we can’t help but
fawn over this mature, strong and intelligent character who is very popular
with the ladies (although with his character traits, he is totally oblivious
about it lol), the 16 year old “Half Hot, Half Cold” Shoto Todoroki. Let’s talk
about U.A High’s gem, a pro hero in the making, Shoto Todoroki. Also if you are
looking for some guidance to draw anime boys from My Hero Academia, we have a
tutorial on how to draw a cute boy like Shoto Todoroki right here. So let’s get
into it!
SHOTO
TODOROKI’S LIFE AND BACKSTORY :
Shoto, in my opinion, is one of those characters who have
suffered the most tragic past which plays a crucial part in shaping his
personality traits. We know he is the youngest son of the current Number 1 hero
Enji Todoroki AKA Endeavor in the My Hero Academia universe and despite being
an excellent hero, as a parent, Endeavor San has totally failed his children. It
is sadly shown that Shoto Todoroki is nothing but a creation, created by his
father out of jealousy for All Might. He is in fact the offspring of an agreement,
as revealed in the series. Heroes are often married to partners who have
powerful quirks to produce children with even more powerful quirks from both
parents. When Shoto's father forced his mother into marriage in an effort to
create a powerful child, he ended up taking away his childhood in pursuit of
making him the number one hero. In the process, the same trauma affected
Shoto’s three older siblings very brutally.
Despite Shoto's quirk, which is half cold and half hot,
developing at age four or five, his father didn't allow him to interact with
his siblings. Since Enji deemed him to be perfect, Shoto was forced to train
all day without any real interaction with others, including his siblings. When
he was about six, in the course of trauma and abuse, his mother poured boiling
water over his face leaving a scar over his left eye. It was a reaction to how
much his left side looked like his father. So technically, Shoto was created
out of Endeavor’s ambition and was not born out of love. Endeavor’s ambition
resulted in a tragic childhood for his child. His tragic childhood caused him
to not interact with most of the characters for a part of the series. His face
is usually unreadable; his voice is also relatively monotone. Despite his
upbringing there is a sweetness about him, and will drop everything to help a
friend, no matter how much trouble it could get him into.
Things start to change for the better during the Sports
Festival Arc when Shoto strengthened his friendship with Izuku Midoriya, the protagonist.
Shoto refused to use his left side or the fire quirk inherited from his father
out of spite. Izuku convinced him that it was his own power no one else’s. Since
then he has decided to embrace every part of himself as a whole which turned
out to put a huge positive impact on who he is as a person.
SHOTO
TODOROKI’S QUIRK :
Shoto's Half-Cold Half-Hot Quirk, which grants him immense
dual-element power, gives him a great handle over his versatile and powerful
abilities. From his right side of his body, Shoto is capable of drastically
reducing temperatures, freezing any object he touches, and generating ice that
he can freely manipulate into a variety of shapes, including large ice waves
that cover much ground, and ice barriers. From his left side, Shoto creates
scorching hot streams and can release protective waves of flame.
Shoto has proven himself to be
quite resilient, being able to withstand multiple attacks from Izuku, including
a direct, One For All -enhanced punch at 5% strength to the stomach, without
sustaining major injuries. During his fight with Leviathan, Shoto was able
to withstand his punch, which was strong enough to destroy the floor of the
Humanise headquarters. One of the most impressive examples of Shoto's
resilience, was when he endured the superior agnikinesis of Dabi,
although, Shoto was partially shielded by his own agnimancy, and Dabi
intentionally held back in his final attack that left Shoto alive.
Shoto has shown to be able to endure combat even while
injured. For example, in his battle with Stain, he was able to continue
fighting and supporting his allies despite suffering from multiple bleeding
injuries on his arm and face, and was still able to drag the villain's
unconscious body once the battle is over. When he engaged Dabi in an
agnikinetic brawl, Shoto continued to fight on despite his body slowly becoming
charred.
Shoto is fast, agile, and has quick reflexes. He was able to
keep first place during the majority of the Obstacle Race during the
Sports Festival thanks to his own athletic ability. He repeatedly created ice
walls within a split second in order to prevent himself from getting thrown out
of the ring through his matchups with Izuku and Katsuki. He was the only one in
Class 1-A capable of at least partly reacting to and dodging Tenya's Recipro
Turbo. He was also able to partially dodge a knife thrown at his face and
several other attacks by Stain, a notably swift opponent.
HOW
IS SHOTO TODOROKI RELATED TO DABI :
Dabi, originally known as Touya Todoroki, is Enji’s first
son and Shoto’s oldest brother. Circumstances made Touya fake his own death and
he joined the League of Villains, which is, of course, another consequence of
Enji’s actions.
WHAT
IS SHOTO TODOROKI’S HERO NAME :
Shoto chose his first name for his hero name, which is
‘Shoto’ because it holds the Kanji for fire and ice which perfectly denotes his
powers. It is very appropriate for his hero name.
STEP – 1 : Drawing
baselines
The first step of
drawing cute anime boys, such as Shoto Todoroki himself, requires you to simply
draw a circle.
STEP – 2 : Drawing
baselines II
In this step of anime
drawing, you’re going to have to draw one vertical line and three horizontal
lines parallel to each other, on the circle that you have drawn in the previous
step, which will help you place the facial features. Initially this is the
first step of how to draw an animated face.
STEP – 3 : Drawing the
lower part of the face
In the third step you
are required to draw the lower part of the face of Shoto which is basically the
jaws and the chin, on the underside of the circular baseline.
STEP – 4 : Drawing
Shoto’s eyes
When it comes to anime art, the most frequently
asked question is how to draw anime eyes. While drawing anime eyes isn’t a
matter of joke, Shoto Todoroki’s beautiful heterochromatic eyes are on a whole
different level. Start by drawing the slanted almond shaped outline of the eyes
along with the eyebrows on the inside of the first two horizontal guidelines.
STEP – 5 : Drawing
Shoto’s facial features
In this step, you’re going to have to draw Shoto’s
nose on the vertical line and his lips on the circle, right above the chin.
STEP – 6 : Drawing
Shoto’s hair
Do you agree with me
that drawing anime hair is one of the most fun part of anime art? And shoto has
very unique hair which is also very beautiful. Start by drawing the outline of
his slightly dishevelled, straight short hair that frames his face perfectly as
bangs covering his forehead. Do put parting lines between the hair for his
bicoloured hair.
STEP – 7 : Drawing
Shoto’s facial features II
In this step, you have
to draw the ears on each side of his head, right under where his bangs end and
the burn scar covering his left eye.
STEP – 8 : Drawing
Shoto’s neck
It’s a really simple
step, just add these two tiny lines for his neck.