Free Hand-Drawn Stick Figure Avatars With a Hat System

Each chatter shows up as a sketchy stick figure drawn in the color of their username, sitting in a row along the bottom of the stream. The line work is loose and hand-drawn, so the row reads like a group doodle that grew organically rather than a generated graphic. Stick Figure Avatars is built for streamers who want their chatter overlay to feel made by a person, not a UI engine.

It is free with Meld Studio. No watermark, no paywall, no usage cap.

What chatters can do

The command set is the largest in the avatar category. !jump makes a figure hop. !dance triggers a dance loop. !wave does exactly what it sounds like. !nudge gently bumps nearby figures, which produces small chain reactions when chat is busy. !heart pops a heart over the figure. And !hat rolls a random hat from the pool, which chatters can run again and again to reroll until they find one they want to keep.

Every animation is drawn in the same hand-drawn line style, and figures pick up the color of their chatter’s username, so the canvas stays readable as a record of who is currently in chat. The hat system is the thing regulars latch onto: it gives a tiny progression layer to the overlay that rewards repeat visits and gives mods and subs something to compare on screen.

Twitch, YouTube Live, Kick, and TikTok Live all feed the same canvas. Multi-platform streams see one row of stick figures representing the full audience, not four separate boxes.

Why streamers use it

The hand-drawn aesthetic fits art streams, sketch sessions, and casual variety content where polished pixel art or chunky blocks would feel too produced. The same look also works as a counterweight to dense gameplay, where the loose line drawing reads as a playful margin note rather than another UI element.

The !nudge interaction creates real moments. One chatter nudges another, the bumped figure stumbles into a third, and chat watches the chain unfold. It is the kind of mechanic that makes regulars want to chat just to participate.

Customizing with Meld Spark

Meld Spark, the AI overlay editor included with Meld Studio, lets you reshape the overlay without touching code. The gallery tip ships with a ready prompt: “Give subscribers a crown hat and moderators a sheriff hat by default.” Run it and the hats assign themselves based on each chatter’s status. You can also lock specific commands to subs, add new animations, or tie a hat to a channel-point reward. Every change persists between sessions.

Adding it to your stream

Download Meld Studio and the overlay drops into a scene with the chat connections already wired up. If you already run OBS, the free Spark Plug for OBS plugin loads Stick Figure Avatars as a browser source inside your existing OBS layout, with the same Twitch, YouTube Live, Kick, and TikTok Live commands and the same Meld Spark control over hats, animations, and per-role permissions.

Use cases

• Doodle, sketch, and drawing streams

  Art streams already lean into hand-drawn aesthetics, so a chatter overlay built from sketchy stick figures matches the show instead of fighting it. Each viewer's figure picks up the color of their username, so the canvas at the bottom of the stream reads like a quick group doodle that grows as chat fills in.

• Community-driven variety streams

  The hat system gives regulars something to chase. Run !hat repeatedly to roll a new hat, or use Meld Spark to assign specific hats to subs and mods. Variety streamers can turn the row of stick figures into a tiny progression layer where chat invests in their own presence over time.

Chat commands

Frequently asked questions