The hare is one of the children's favorites cartoon characters, which can be drawn with a simple pencil, gouache or felt-tip pens. A simple and easy-to-do drawing does not require professional skills and can be done by children with a little help from their parents.
What you need for drawing
A cartoon hare is a drawing that necessarily reflects not only a cheerful character, but also the distinctive features of the animal: long ears, fluffy fur, long legs and a small tail, but at the same time, it is made in an original, fairy-tale style.
How to master pencil drawing of cartoon character Not only adults, but also children, under their sensitive guidance, can do this, while experts advise remembering that:
- For drawing, it is recommended to use a set of pencils (H, HB and B), choosing a medium-hardness lead (HB) for drawing auxiliary lines. Pencil B can only be used for outlining the contours of the sketch, otherwise the beginning artist may end up with dirt on the drawing.
- At the initial stage, it is necessary to create a special frame of geometric figures on the sheet. The initial strokes should be done lightly, without pressing, which will allow you to easily correct possible errors.
- When working with pencil H, you must not press too hard on the album sheet due to the risk of deforming it, making it impossible to subsequently color the drawing with colored pencils.
Experts advise to start a drawing lesson with the selection and preparation of the necessary tools that help to facilitate and correctly organize the work:
| Name of the item | What is it used for and how to choose |
| Simple pencils | Drawing pencils have rods made of clay-fired powdered granite of varying hardness. For beginner artists, the HB and B range is suitable, allowing you to experiment with different line thicknesses and add realism to your drawing. When buying graphite pencils, it is recommended to pay attention to the products of popular brands with the highest quality lead - KOH-I-NOOR, Faber-Castell, Derwent. |
| Erasers | For drawing, it is recommended to purchase 2 erasers - a kneaded eraser that erases black graphite pencil and a simple, white, plastic one. The latter can be cut with a knife, getting a fresh edge that erases clear lines, but does not stain the drawing. |
| Sharpeners | In addition to the usual sharpener, a stationery knife is used to sharpen pencils, allowing you to get a sharp, thin lead. For a sharper sharpening, sandpaper is used. |
| Shading | Used to create elements of light and shadow in drawings, made from rolled fibrous paper, they come in different sizes and are sold in special sets. |
| Hardcover album | Equipped with 40 thick white A4 sheets, it is designed for drawing with pencil, paint or gouache. |
| Set of colored pencils | Made of wood or high-quality plastic, placed in sets, colored pencils should have bright, saturated colors, fit comfortably in the child's hand and be easy to sharpen. It is recommended to purchase colored pencils of the brands Deli, KOH-I-NOOR, Faber-Castell. |
| Paints and brushes for drawing | Oil, acrylic, watercolor or gouache are sold in sets of 8-20 colors, adhere well to paper and help the child realize his creative fantasies. Along with paints, it is recommended to purchase a set of brushes made of pony, squirrel, kolinsky, of different thicknesses, used for drawing small details and painting large areas. |
| Compass | Used to draw a circle on a sheet of paper to schematically depict parts of a character's body. |
Master classes
It is quite easy to draw a hare with a pencil, but careful drawing of small details is necessary.
- The work begins with a schematic representation of the outlines of the animal's head and body - a large oval and a small circle, under which it is necessary to draw a line that allows all parts of the character to be evenly distributed relative to the horizontal plane, and then draw the ears, paws and tail.
- The hare's face should be divided into 4 parts by horizontal and vertical lines and the eyes should be placed in the first, central part, and the animal's nose should be placed in the second, lower part.
- Using an eraser, you need to remove all the auxiliary lines, draw the paws, pupil and corner of the eye, and put a shadow on the ears to add volume. Use strokes to separate the head line from the body and give the animal fluffy fur.
- Using light, short strokes on the face, paws and body, you need to draw the hare's fur and add a fluffy tail.
- Using a soft pencil, carefully apply a shadow to the lower, horizontal plane, adding realism to the drawing.
Funny
A cartoon hare is a drawing that a child can easily make under the guidance of an adult, thereby getting acquainted with the basics of artistic skill and learning to work with clear, dark lines.
To make the hare look more realistic, you can add grey fur and a fluffy white tail.
- The image of a cartoon animal begins with the head, for which you need to draw a cylindrical image of the head on a sheet of paper and draw elongated ears, and then:
- Finish drawing the pear-shaped body, first one, then the rest of the front and back legs and a small tail.
- Using clear, massive lines, draw the eyes, nose, whiskers and mouth of the animal and, if desired, color the drawing, giving the hare's fur a realistic, gray shade.
From "Well, Just You Wait"
Cartoon hare - a drawing of a character from "Well, Just You Wait" created by applying thin, schematic lines and carefully drawing the animal's face:
- Work on the hare begins with drawing a circle on a sheet of paper - which serves as the head and an oval - the body. On the latter, you need to mark the area of the arms with small circles, connect them with ovals to make a sketch of the fingers. On the circle of the head, the level of the eyes and nose is outlined with strokes.
- Using a softer pencil, you need to draw in detail the eyes, nose and mouth of the hare with a protruding tooth. The pupil of the eye is painted black and highlighted with light shading.
- Using an HB pencil, you need to outline the outline of the head, drawing in the ears, whiskers and eyebrows, and then, going beyond the circle, add fur and a neck with a collar to the hare's head.
- Use an eraser to remove all auxiliary lines from the animal's face and complete the drawing by outlining its body and paws with a soft pencil. On the resulting image, you need to draw a T-shirt and a small tail.
- Using a soft eraser, you need to erase all the auxiliary details from the drawing, apply shadows with pencil shading, adding additional volume to the ears and clothes of the hare, and carefully shade them.
- In a similar way, you can depict a hare from the cartoon "Well, Just You Wait" in full growth with a bouquet of flowers. Work begins with a sketch of the animal's head and body, consisting of a circle and an elongated oval. Small circles outline the upper and lower limbs. The latter then acquire an expanded, slightly pointed shape and are connected to the body using thin lines. With further work:
- The circumference of the head should be divided into 4 parts by horizontal and vertical lines perpendicular to each other, and the lines of the eyes, nose and mouth of the animal should be marked with segments.
- Using the HB pencil, draw the eyes, nose and mouth of the hare. The pupil and mouth are artificially replaced with slightly shaded hatching.
- Using a medium-soft pencil, draw smooth, clear lines to outline the head and add ears, fur protruding beyond the circle, eyebrows, and whiskers of the animal.
- Taking an eraser, you need to remove the auxiliary lines from the drawing. Draw the fingers on the paws and, using schematic, fuzzy, straight lines, depict a bouquet of flowers in one of them.
- Using clear, dark lines of an HB pencil, outline the body, clothing and lower legs of the hare, and also add a tail to it.
- Using a clean, white eraser, remove all auxiliary lines from the album sheet. Using a soft pencil (B), apply shading that adds volume to the drawing and carefully shade it.
- The resulting hare from the cartoon "Well, Just You Wait" can be colored with colored pencils or paints.
From "Bambi"
- The drawing of the cartoon hare Topotun from the Disney fairy tale "Bambi" begins with drawing a circle on a sheet of paper using a compass and dividing it with a horizontal line. Based on the line in the large circle, you need to draw the eye, muzzle and nose of the animal.
- Using rounded pencil lines, draw the mouth and cheeks of the hare, and then, using an HB pencil, outline the circumference of the head with a small indentation for the body.
- To the lower part of the head circumference you need to draw ears, a neck, design the animal's fur, and in the mouth depict a tongue with a protruding tooth.
- The body of the Topotun hare is pear-shaped and is complemented by front and back legs, chest and belly circumferences.
- In a similar way, you need to add the tail and hind leg to the animal’s body.
- Using an eraser, you need to remove all auxiliary lines from the sheet and outline the contours of the animal with a soft pencil. You can add a butterfly to the drawing, and then apply hatching to the hare or color it with gray and pink pencils.
From Zootopia
Cartoon hare - a drawing depicting one of the main characters of the Disney cartoon "Zootopia" Judy Hopps, requires careful attention to auxiliary details.
The step-by-step work on the sketch consists of:
- An image on an album sheet of a circle with horizontal and vertical lines intersecting in its center.
- Long ears are drawn perpendicular to the circle, and an inverted triangle is placed underneath it for the subsequent depiction of the body.
- The lower part of the triangle must be inscribed into a new figure without a vertex, and lines must be drawn to its edges - a schematic image of hands, connected at acute angles and ending in small circles - brushes.
- To schematically depict the position of the legs, you need to add 2 thin lines to the lower part of the lower triangle, ending in small semicircles.
- In the upper parts of the circle of the head divided by perpendicular axes, you need to draw the eyes and eyebrows of the hare, at the intersection of the lines - the nose, and in the lower part - the character's mouth.
- Using a soft pencil, outline the hare's head and ears, and use strokes to draw the fur.
- Detail the ears and draw the character's clothes - a police uniform, belt and badge.
- Having drawn concave lines on the diagram, connect them at the end points and draw the arms first, and then the legs of the character.
- Using an eraser, remove all auxiliary elements, outline the drawing with a soft-tip pencil and color it with paints or colored pencils.
Bucks Bunny
- Cartoon rabbit Bucks Bunny is one of the most popular characters in children's comics, the image of which begins with a schematic arrangement on an album sheet of simple geometric figures - a circle and an oval - for the future head and neck, as well as additional 3 ovals of different sizes (starting from the smallest) located under them - for the animal's body. Long ears should be added to the upper circumference of the head, and then:
- For each hand, you need to draw 2 elongated ovals ending in small circles. To each of them, you should draw fingers made in the form of small ovals.
- Bugs Bunny's legs are depicted using rectangles with large ovals for the feet and 3 small toes.
- To detail the face, you need to draw a triangle of the nose in the middle of the upper oval and a mouth in the shape of the letter "W", in the corners of which you need to place small lines - grins. Under the mouth, you need to draw teeth - depicting them in the form of a square, divided in half by a horizontal line.
- To the resulting cartoon character face, you need to add eyes made in the form of elongated ovals and short lines - a mustache. The pupils at the bottom of the eyes should be painted over.
- The resulting sketch needs to be detailed by adding gloves with notches ending at the wrist, and then drawing the outlines of the arms, legs and face of the cartoon character.
- Using an eraser, you need to remove the auxiliary lines of the sketch, outline its contours with a pencil with a soft lead and color it.
From "Masha and the Bear"
The cartoon hare from the children's series "Masha and the Bear" is one of the secondary characters, often helping the main characters, but at the same time stealing carrots from the Bear's garden.
His drawing is done with pencils of different thicknesses and requires:
- Draw the character's head schematically in the form of 2 ovals located one under the other. In the upper one, draw a horizontal line, indicating the eye level.
- Draw the eyes and nose of the animal, and then using rounded lines moving in the shape of the letter "W" to outline its muzzle in detail.
- Outline the contours of the head and use short broken lines or hatching to depict the fur on it.
- Draw ears on the hare's head, made in the shape of an oval, slightly bent inward.
- Moving from top to bottom, draw the hare's paws, body and stomach.
- Draw the toes on the right hind leg, and then draw the hare's second front leg, left hind leg and tail.
- Add additional details to the animal's face, outlining its nose, then erase the additional lines and outline the outline of the drawing with a soft-tip pencil.
- The resulting drawing can be colored with paints, felt-tip pens or colored pencils.
Krosh from "Smeshariki"
Krosh from Smeshariki is one of the most popular children's cartoon characters, and you will need a compass to draw him.
You need to start drawing a hare (rabbit) by drawing a circle divided into 4 parts by perpendicular lines, and then you should:
- In both upper parts, depict eyes in the shape of an oval, and above them, eyebrows in small arches, one slightly higher than the other;
- At the intersection of the lines between the eyes, place a small round nose, and under the horizontal line - a curved line reaching on both sides to the edge of the eye.
- Under the mouth, in the middle, draw a small vertical line, on both sides of which draw 2 protruding teeth, the right one should be slightly larger than the left.
- After the animal's face is ready, draw 2 ears on top of it.
- On the sides of the circle there are paws with 2 lines – fingers.
- At the bottom of the crumb's body, draw 2 large ovals for the legs, connected to the body by 4 short lines.
- Using an eraser, remove all auxiliary lines and outline the sketch with a soft-lead pencil.
- Color the resulting drawing with a blue pencil or felt-tip pen.
On the move
You can make a drawing that allows you to depict a character in a dynamic state.
It requires more complexity to perform. applying light strokes and clearly defining a rectangular area in which the animal will be located.
- Work on the sketch begins with a schematic image of the animal using geometric figures that fit the hare into a rectangle.
- The next stage of work includes detailed drawing of the muzzle (eyes, nose, mouth) and paws of the animal. Its belly and back are depicted with curved lines.
- All auxiliary lines are removed with an eraser. Using a pencil with a medium-soft lead and short strokes, outlines of fur on the back, cheeks, and tail are depicted.
- Using hatching, the fur covering the entire body of the hare is depicted, and upon completion of the work, the outline of the animal is outlined with a pencil with a soft lead or a felt-tip pen.
- You can add grass and trees to the drawing and, if desired, color it with paints or colored pencils.
The hare is one of the popular characters in Russian, Soviet and Disney cartoons.
With long ears, strong paws and a short, fluffy tail, the hare is quite easy to draw, does not require painstaking, precise drawing of details and can be an excellent training of skills for beginning artists.
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