How to Draw Lily Lovebraids Step by Step

If you want the six-step version before reading the detailed sections, here it is. Each step links to where it is expanded below.

1. Block in the head and braid loops. Draw a soft oval for the head, then map the two braid loops as long looping ribbon paths. Skip strand detail at this stage — the silhouette has to read as Lily before anything else.
2. Set the eyes, smile, and tiny nose. Use wide doll-like eyes and a stretched smile. Keep the nose small. If the nose or jaw gets heavy, Lily reads as older and stops looking like the character.
3. Build the braid rhythm on top of the contour. Once both braid loops have a clean outer path, layer in the segmented braid rhythm. Treat each loop like a rope first, then a braid.
4. Map dress shapes — waist break and star accents. Block in the waist break, the triangular skirt, and the star accent placement. Use a bright fan reference rather than dark screenshots for clearer color and shape breaks.
5. Check silhouette from a distance. Step back or zoom out. If a viewer can recognize Lily from the shape alone, the drawing is on track. If not, adding more detail will not fix it — return to the silhouette.
6. Add color or warm up with a coloring sheet. If you want to skip line confidence, download a printable Lily Lovebraids coloring sheet first. Otherwise, color the braid in dark purple, the dress in alternating bands, and add the star highlight last.

When a first Lily Lovebraids drawing goes wrong, it usually happens because the artist starts with the face details too early. Lily is readable long before the eyes or dress stars show up. The real anchor is her silhouette: a rounded head, two giant braid loops, a small upper body, and long tapering legs.

Draw the head first as a soft oval. Then map each braid as a long looping ribbon path instead of drawing strands immediately. If the braid loops are balanced, the rest of the drawing becomes much easier.

Lily’s face reads best when you exaggerate the big circles and the slightly uncanny smile. Her eyes are wide and doll-like, but the mouth shape is what makes the character feel unstable rather than simply cute. Use the expression collage below to study how far the smile can stretch before it stops reading as Lily.

Keep the nose tiny. The eyes, smile, and hairline do most of the work. If you overbuild the nose or jaw, Lily starts to look older and less doll-like than the current fan art and video references suggest.

The braid loops are the point of failure and the point of recognition. Draw the outer path of each loop first, then build the inner contour, then layer in the segmented braid rhythm. Think "rope" first, then "braid."

One useful shortcut is to stop after the outer contour and check the whole silhouette from a distance. If someone can already recognize Lily from the shape alone, you are on the right track. If they cannot, adding detail will not fix the drawing.

Lily’s dress reads through the star accents, the waist break, and the sharp layered hem. The bright fan reference below is helpful because it clarifies color zones and shape breaks better than darker screenshots do.

If you only want to practice the costume shapes without worrying about line confidence, download one of the coloring sheets first and treat it as a warm-up.

Most failed Lily Lovebraids drawings fail in the same handful of places. Knowing the pattern in advance saves an entire restart later.

• Starting with face details. Eyes, eyelashes, and mouth come last. If you nail the eyes on a wobbly silhouette, the wobble does not go away — you just have detailed wobble.
• Braids drawn as strands first. The braid only reads as a braid after the outer contour is locked. Drawing strand-by-strand without the outer path almost always produces a tangled silhouette.
• Heavy nose or jaw. Lily is doll-shaped. A realistic nose immediately ages her and breaks the character read.
• Symmetric braid loops. The two loops should not mirror perfectly. A small asymmetry in length or curve makes the drawing feel alive rather than mechanical.
• Drawing from dark in-game screenshots. Bright fan references and the picture gallery are far easier to read than the dark Sweet Street stills.
• Skipping color zones. Even if you only want a line drawing, blocking color zones in light gray helps you check that the dress shapes break correctly before committing to ink.

A drawing page should not be text-only when fans are learning through video. These two tutorials are useful starting points for construction, braid rhythm, and face shape comparison.