Preston was a Christmas gift I sent to a friend, who was then kind enough to have him pose for a photograph so that I could draw him.
I think Preston’s shades of blue and green fur were hard to capture with the shades of pencil crayon I had, but I do like the way the fur effect and the shading comes together to create a shocking effect! Continue reading
Gus, (or Augustus Gustavius, as he’s called in full,) is my Mom’s dearest bear friend. She got him when I was still fairly young and living at home, and took him on many camping trips and such. I even remember Gus being part of a story where Mom broke her leg at camp and had to stay in the hospital before coming home.
Gus is also a big fan of colorful bandanas, which he wears as neck scarves, and asked Mom to get him some more. He also used to be good friends with Basil bear, though I think they’re not as close as they used to be since I got my own place.
In this drawing, I like the technique of short pencil lines to suggest Gus’ soft white fur, the pink bandanna and the details of his face. Continue reading
Welcome to my A to Z challenge! I’m looking forward to sharing bears and other drawings with you all month long!
Aura was one of the first teddy bears my Mom got, which was after my siblings and I had collected a few. 😉 She’s a fairly small bear, but has an unfailingly cheerful disposition to match her bright yellow fur. It’s a little weird to see this sketch now, since Aura has gone off to have new adventures and find somebody who needed her company more than Mom did.
If I remember correctly, I was the one to give Fluff to Gabba, my grandmother on my mom’s side, and he came to live with me after she died, but he always makes me think of her.
I was trying to work with shadow here, and also with some kind of pointillism effect using brown color pencil for his fur.
Drawing teddy bears 