How To Draw An Bear

Below you'll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw a bear and a bear coloring page. You can draw one that looks realistic, but doesn't call for lots of grown up sketching.

A drawing of a bear, made with the help of an easy step by step tutorial.

Bears sometimes look like they can be complicated to draw, with their big furry bodies. It can be hard to see where and how their legs and arms attach to their bodies. Not to worry though, this How to Draw a Bear tutorial will show students how to draw a nice smooth body with legs first, and then add some fuzzy edges all around.

Breaking this process into two steps will insure students draw the size and proportion of the bear first, before adding those little fuzzy lines all around. It's no fun getting to the end of your drawing, and then wish you had made some body parts larger or smaller. Then again, that's all part of the learning process!

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A step by step tutorial for how to draw an easy bear, also available as a free download.

Bear Coloring Page

Materials to Draw a Bear

Pencil. The Ticonderoga brand are the most reliable, make nice dark lines when you need them, and are the easiest to erase. Buying the pre-sharpened ones will save busy teachers a lot of time.

Eraser. Large ones you can hold in your hand do a much better job than just the pencil tip erasers, especially when erasing leftover pencil lines after tracing.

Black Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent marker pens make nice black outlines, have a good tip for coloring, and never bleed when they get wet. Use them with good ventilation and add extra paper underneath to protect your tables.

Prang Crayons. These are a bit softer than other crayons so they sometimes look like oil pastels. They also have a some nice brown shades that Crayola does not have unless you buy their larger boxes.

Crayola Crayons. The reliable brand that always works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite golden orange and yellow colors that seem a bit richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.