Techniques for drawing a Valentine’s Day bear

1. Make guidelines. Draw half a heart.
2. Finish the heart.
3. Draw a head above the heart.
4. Add eyes, nose and mouth.
5. Draw two ears.
6. Add two medium paws and two larger feet.
7. Add spots to the feet.
8. Write a message in the heart.
9. Trace with a marker and paint or color.

How to Draw a Valentine Bear

In this drawing guide, I will tell you about how to draw a Valentine Bear. This cute toy has become a real symbol of Valentine’s Day. This is natural, because a teddy bear is one of the most common gifts. If you want to draw it just follow these steps and you will get great results.

How to Draw a Valentine Bear

First, draw the basic outlines of the head and torso of this bear. Use smooth round shapes like in my sample. The body is slightly longer than the head, but the head is slightly wider.

Step 2 – Add the Ears

This tutorial contains very few details. You can only see the basic details here. So, draw the approximate contours of the ears and a small circle in the lower part of the face.

Valentine Bear Drawing

Learning how to draw overlapping shapes is one of the first ways students learn about depth.⁠ An easy example can be found with this How to Draw a Valentine Teddy Bear tutorial.⁠ Students first draw the object in front, (the heart) and then what is behind (the bear).⁠ The overlapping shapes create the look of the bear holding the heart, instead of just leaning up behind it.⁠

Children that are just learning how to draw do their best work when they have what I call anchor points to refer to. For instance, asking them to “place their pencil in the center of a sheet of paper and draw up and back to the center for half of a heart” is so much clearer than just asking them to “draw half a heart”. That’s why I recommend folding paper before drawing to first get a horizontal and vertical guide in place. They help take all the guesswork out of getting that large heart centered on the sheet of paper. Once the heart is in place, drawing the rest of this simple teddy is a piece of cake.

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Materials for Valentine Bear Project

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• Watercolor Paper.
• Real watercolor paper always makes the watercolor paint much more vibrant.

• Pencil.
• The Ticonderoga brand are the most reliable, make nice dark lines when you need them, and are the easiest to erase.

• Eraser .
• Large erasers 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.

• Crayola Crayons.
• This classic brand always works well.

• Rounded Watercolor Brush .
• A good paint brush can make all the difference in the world. Who can paint small details with one of those big floppy brushes? This style with a sturdy rounded tip were my hands down favorite.

• Liquid Watercolor Paint.
• These paints are so easy to work with, leave such bright colors and last for a long, long time. Well worth the investment.

• Non-Spill Paint Cup .
• Train your students to leave the matching brush in each cup after they use it, and you have an easy system with very little cleanup.