Get smart curated videos delivered to your inbox.   SUBSCRIBE
The Kid Should See This

Learn how to draw Totoro in one minute

Watch more with these video collections:

Want to learn how to draw Totoro? Please enjoy this one minute lesson from Studio Ghibli’s former president, film producer Toshio Suzuki. His Japanese instruction is supplemented with English subtitles and some charming piano music.

Using a brush-tipped pen to outline Totoro’s ears and body, Suzuki’s well-practiced sketch makes drawing Totoro look simple. But there’s a secret within the details: “You have to draw his eyes far apart. That’s the key point.”

drawing totoro
Watch more videos with Totoro and more Studio Ghibli-related videos on TKSST, including:
How to make Totoro Steamed Buns
Totoro & Catbus pancake art
• Ghibli’s Gentoro at the Toyama Glass Art Museum

This Webby award-winning video collection exists to help teachers, librarians, and families spark kid wonder and curiosity. TKSST features smarter, more meaningful content than what's usually served up by YouTube's algorithms, and amplifies the creators who make that content.

Curated, kid-friendly, independently-published. Support this mission by becoming a sustaining member today.

🌈 Watch these videos next...

Unendurable line – Design Ah!

Rion Nakaya

Totoro & Catbus pancake art by Random Breakfasts

Rion Nakaya

The Red Thread (赤い糸): A single line tells a story

Rion Nakaya

The Artist Who Couldn’t Draw

Rion Nakaya

Studio Ghibli Tributes: A homemade RC Flaptter and Totoro

Rion Nakaya

Robert Howsare’s Drawing Apparatus

Rion Nakaya

Pixar’s Zoetrope and how animation works

Rion Nakaya

Only Slightly Exaggerated, a Studio Ghibli-style animation for Travel Oregon

Rion Nakaya

Only Slightly (More) Exaggerated, a Travel Oregon animation

Rion Nakaya