How to Draw a Cute Panda Bear
Learning how to draw a panda is easy and fun. We’ll show you step by step how to draw, outline, and color your cute panda bear drawings with markers.
There’s a lot of different ways to make your artwork. Today we’ll show you a process you can use on any drawing.
And we’ll keep things as easy and fun as we can. Because creating art should be an enjoyable experience.
Let’s get some supplies and get ready to learn how to draw a panda cute and easy.
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Art Supplies
- Thin black marker
- Paper or cardstock
- Markers
- Pencil
- Click Eraser, Pink Pearl Eraser
- White Gelly Roll pen
Cute Panda Sketch Practice
Starting with some quick sketches is a really good way to warm up your drawing muscles. It’s also a good way to work through some rough ideas and learn more about your subject matter.
And it only takes a few minutes to do. This is how you do a cute panda sketch practice exercise.
- Get some paper and something to sketch with
- Pull up some reference photos
- Set a timer for three or five minutes
Then sketch as many pandas as you can before the timer goes off.
You could also just do as many quick sketches as you can until your paper is filled.
Either way is fine. Just be sure to make loose, quick sketches. You don’t need to worry about a bunch of small details.
Simply focus on the shapes and proportions of a panda bear. And work through any ideas you might have.
You’ll be amazed by how much you can learn in just a few minutes.
We have another tutorial that shows more about the benefits of doing Warm Up Exercises if you want to learn more.
How to Draw a Panda Step by Step
As we mentioned earlier, learning how to draw a panda is easy and fun. We’re going to show you step by step how to break things down into simple shapes and make your panda bear look cute.
But I’m pretty sure they’re just cute in general.
Like usual, we’re going to start with some basic shapes and guidelines. Begin by drawing a circle for the head.
You can add some lines to help with the placement of the eyes, nose, and mouth. But this step is completely optional.
Let’s start with drawing the nose. There are some different ways you could do this. It could be round, oval shaped, or a triangular shape like I drew mine.
Draw a short line coming down from the center of the nose, then draw the mouth at the bottom of that line.
To draw the panda’s eyes, start by drawing the patches that are around the eyes. Try to keep them symmetrical, but don’t stress too much about them being perfect.
Next, draw the shape of the eyes. The bigger you draw the eyes, the cuter your panda bear will look.
Now add the iris and pupils for the eyes.
The next step is to draw out the shape of the head. Again, there are a lot of different ways you can do this. You could make an oval or circle for your overall head shape. Or, you can give it more curves and details like I did here.
Finish up drawing your panda’s head by adding the ears.
Now add his body to your drawing so you don’t have a floating head.
Cute Panda Outline
After you’ve finished drawing your cute panda, you can add an outline to it. To make your panda outline just trace over your pencil lines with a black pen or marker.
You can make your lines thin, thick, or a combination of the two. Or you can make your outline a different color other than black.
How you choose to make your outline will depend on your personal style. Don’t worry if you’re not sure what that is yet. It will develop over time with some practice.
Just keep making your artwork and try different things to see what you like or don’t like.
After you finish outlining your panda drawing, use an eraser to clean it up and remove the pencil lines.
How to Draw a Panda with Markers
Are you ready to learn how to draw a panda with markers? Learning to color with markers isn’t as difficult as people think.
But there are a few things that you should keep in mind.
First, if you want to be able to blend your colors together you need to use alcohol based markers. Bic, Sharpie, and Copic for example. As well as many others.
Second, you need to work while the colors are still wet or they won’t mix together. This isn’t a big deal. Just make sure you work on a section at a time.
Third, you need to use colors that are similar to each other if you want to create a smooth transition of color. If your markers are too different they will leave a harder edge.
Even though a panda bear is mostly black and white, you don’t want to use just black and white. This would look boring and flat.
For the areas that are black, you can add some gray to it. Or you could add some color like blue or purple.
The same thing can be done for the white areas. In real life things aren’t just pure white. They reflect the objects around them.
Don’t be afraid to play around with the colors a little bit.
White highlights can be added with a white Gelly Roll pen.
Final Thoughts and Next Steps
Now that you know how to draw a cute panda bear what’s the next step? If you want to improve your drawings, you need to make more of them.
You just drew a cute panda bear, so try doing something more realistic. Or maybe an abstract panda bear. You could also just do more that are similar to the first one you drew.
Have fun and experiment with different ideas and see what you can come up with. Try doing a series of panda drawings and see how much your creativity improves.
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