How to draw: A Grizzly Bear

We have a lot of fun in today's blog when I show you how to draw this furry grizzly bear. After following the steps to draw the bear, I will use a very special type of pencil, manufactured by Derwent, called the Drawing pencils, to colour the bear with. These pencils have been specially developed to draw animals with and are an absolute treat to work with. However, if you can't lay your hands on these, feel free to use your own colouring pencils instead.

You will need a sheet of paper and pencil to start today's drawing with.

Start with a big oval to represent the bear's body. Place an overlapping smaller circle on top fir the bear's head.

Draw shapes for where the hind legs will go and mark off the width of his face.

Add ears, a snout and eyes and continue developing the width of the head.

Add the front legs.

Develop the face a little more and work on the hind legs. I also added detail to the paws.

Start to establish the outline of the bear in furry scribbles.

Add more defining detail.

Draw a setting for the grizzly.

I used a Faber Castell Artist's Pitt Pen with a brush tip to redraw the lines of the drawing.

Erase the pencil marks.

These are the colouring pencils I will be using to colour the drawing with.

I start on the darkest areas.

I go slightly lighter.

I then use my medium tone.

I again go slightly lighter.

I use a surprising green in the shaded areas. I will use this same colour in the background, and need to add the reflection of this colour into my drawing.

I add the lightest tone.

I now start colouring the foreground.

Darkers shades are added.

I move on to the background.

Warm colours advance while cold colours retreat, adding dimension to the background.

I finalize the background.

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