Drawing Series: Bears

How to draw cute characters using simple shapes: Let's draw bears
COURSE LENGTH: 1h 31m

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS COURSE

  • Identify key features of a bear which you’ll apply in your own work
  • Use simple organic shapes to create adorable animal characters
  • Plan your character to inject more personality and magic into your work
  • Apply all you’ve learnt to sketch and add colour to your final character

COURSE PROJECT

We’ll be doing a few warm-up sketches using the fun shapes included in the Class Resources. Once you’re warmed up, start planning your cute bear character. Using any drawing medium you feel comfortable with, sketch out your final character, then add colour.

Feel free to use either digital or analogue tools, or both!

YOUR PROGRESS

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YOUR COURSE
  • Getting started and warming up
    • Start Here
    • Course Resources
    • Bear Study: What makes a bear a bear?
  • Fun with simple shapes
    • 5 Simple Shapes = 5 Cute Bears
    • Using two different shapes to create a Bear Character
  • Planning and creating your final Bear Character
    • How to plan your Character
    • Final Character: Sketching
    • Final Character: Adding colour 
  • Wrapping Up
    • More fun examples and final thoughts
    • Additional Resources

Discussion

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6 Comments

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    Hi Lisa,
    I love the way you draw and I would love all your brushes, but I am not in the apple world so I am not able to deal with Procreate thingies. I am drawing with Ibis Paint and have to admitt that I am satisfied with the program.

    Is there any chance to use or change or translate your brushes in Ibis Paint? I know these complete different types of program but I even want to ask 🙂

    best regards
    Andrea

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      Hey Andrea,

      I wish I could transform the brushes to other apps but unfortunately the brush engine in Procreate is very different and has nuanced settings and features that other apps don’t have. These features add to the authentic look of the brushes (which takes days and sometimes weeks of tweaking and testing to achieve). So far I haven’t unfortunately been successful in converting the brushes to other apps where I’m happy to sell, I have high standards and don’t want to sell sub-standard versions of my brushes. So sorry I couldn’t give you a more positive answer! Maybe in the near future all these apps will be more compatible with each other and allow the import of other software brush files.

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        Thank you so much! I just solved the problem and have bought an Ipad 🙂

        And I already ordered the beautiful nitty gritty brush set, with wich I am really happy!

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          Yay!!! That’s fantastic news! I’m sure you’re going to really enjoy using your iPad. Thank you so much for being a customer! I hope you enjoy using the brushes. ❤️

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    love my avatar, I am so cute 🙂

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      Hehe! Glad you like your avatar Andrea

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