I'm using a pencil divided into 8 equal bits, a putty rubber, a 2b pencil, some edding pens and an acid free drawing pad.

First of all we need to build a frame to put our teddy in.

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Decide how tall you want to draw your teddy.

This is the teddy who has very kindly agreed to sit for me.

HOW TO DRAW WHAT YOU SEE:

If you haven't got a teddy bear, it doesn't matter because you can use anything you like. The same basic principles apply to whatever it is you want to draw.

Now we need a vertical line on the right.

Divide this vertical line into 8 equal bits.
It is important not to use your pencil as a ruler. If you do, all of your drawings will be the same size.

Using the same size bits, put some more along the bottom line.

Place your ted about 5 or 6 feet away from yourself and level with your eyes. Hold your pencil at arms length and move yourself back and forth until your pencil appears to be the same height - It helps if you close one eye and also make sure your arm is straight.

Turn your pencil sideways and see how many bits of pencil it takes to make the width.

Use this measurment to make the other vertical line.

We now have the frame to fit our ted in

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As you can see here, our ted appears to be 8 bits of pencil tall and just over 5 bits wide.

Now we need to place some reference marks so that we can keep it all in proportion. The neck is nearly 3 pencil bits down or just over 5 pencil bits up. double checking this way helps.

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