How to Draw a Teddy Bear

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jay French, from JayFrenchStudios.com. And, I'm going to teach you how to draw a teddy bear. A lot of people ask to do this, because well, it comes up a lot more often than you'd think. You get some basic shapes in here, and then, once we have that, you basically want a circle, although I usually do, broader than tall. It gives more of a cute factor. No neck. In fact, you want some over lap to the body. And, again, this depends on what type of teddy bear you want to draw. What style you're going for. I usually go for a little larger, but I've seen plenty of teddy bears where their bodies are just the same size as their head. Get your ears, make sure your ears are high, else it'll look like a monkey. I've had it happen. Then about, maybe about half, a little slightly above half way point, you'll have a, an oval here. I tend to do it with a flattened top. This is for your muzzle, on your teddy bear. Put their nose in there. Always do the nose dark, you can do it, if you "wa", if you 're going for realism, put a highlight on there for gloss, cause it's really a button or a piece of plastic. Get your eyes in, again you can have a highlight on there, if want more realism. You want a real cute look, put the eyes really close together. Now, you can start to get some detailing in there, depending on if you're doing this cartoon "y". Kind of loose that separation, cause this is all one piece. And again, you can control how fluffy you want it. Put a different layer, if you do this in color, you can make this area lighter, just like the muzzle. Another cute look is to give them no mouth at all, but you can give 'em, what would be basically, a stitched seam, for a mouth. And then you can put that line, between the nose and mouth, as well. The easiest way to put arms and legs, is to think of 'em as cylinders. They face slightly forward. They're essentially flat on the end. Give 'em some fluff, erase that layer underneath, and again, if you're doing this in color, I recommend making the ends, basically the hands, or lack there upon, a lighter tone, just like the muzzle and the "ear", the inside of the ears. Teddy bears, are almost always sitting. Again, we have cylinders, slightly coming at you. And again, you control, how cartoon "y" or how realistic you want this to be, as to how much you detail. There you have a basic lesson in how to draw a teddy bear."