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AddictionHalfWay β Anatomy Tutorial: Bear
Published: 2010-01-30 05:00:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 131804; Favourites: 4289; Downloads: 3780
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THIS IS A HUGE PICTURE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!I was about to create a cat anatomy tutorial but then I saw a few new bear submissions.
I'm no perfect artist but I notice a lot of mistakes people make when drawing bears that are easily corrected. What's worst is a lot of people making the worst mistakes are very popular people that many look up to. Infuriating
Hopefully this will help out some people with drawing bears or else interest some people into bears. They're a fun animal. I love them.
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I'll do cats later. It will probably be WAAYY shorter eve... sorry its so long.
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Art (C) ~AddictionHalfWay
Photography... not mine. Found on google e__e;;
EDIT: Want to know more about bears? Then I'd suggest trying to watch the National Geographic 1 hour documentary Explorer: Ultimate Bear because it is MAD SKILLZ HELPFUL for (black/grizzly/polar) bear behavior and anatomy.
Here's a 3 minute clip from the documentary: [link]
Website with photo-information and skeletal/muscle information on bears: [link]
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Damn this was so interesting! It saddens me that so many artists still draw bears like huskies xD
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This is so helpful; I've been working on a bear character and was trying to figure out how to not make them look like a canine x.x This helps with all of that! Thank you so much <3
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The "wrong" head is not wrong, it's stylized. β’_β’ It DOES look like a bear. I would never mistake it for a dog. It would be wrong as a dog too then, btw.
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i have to agree with you there - that is just a cartoony stylized bear - the only thing i would say was odd is the angle of the neck.Β
But it's still easily discernable as a bear!Β
however, the rest of the guide is really good c:
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Well, the "wrong" head is wrong. I DOES look like a bear, but anatomically, it's wrong.
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To me it's a matter of style. And you don't need to be 100% anatomically correct when you play with style. ^^' The features must be right but the proportions can be altered.
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I am SO glad u did this, cuz I've been having trouble drawing bears cuz they're my spirit animals ^^
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This such an excellent tutorial for drawing bears, even for beginners, as it is detailed in showing every step necessary and well thought out. I love the technique used in draw the anatomy of the bear, those circles and shapes. Although, they might seem redundant and meaningless, but they equip an artist with a stronger foundation for better technique for art. Sorry this sounds like i am naggin' and you probably already know this, i just felt like saying it. Well done and nice contribution to DA! Have a nice day!
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this is a LIFE saver. I've been trying to draw a good bear for 30 minutes now, for my cousin, and have had trouble.
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It is true that the bear's head is not more of a big dog and its look-alike whose a felinoid, the hyena. But bears are more closely related to dogs, rather than pigs and cats.
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True! But my comment is like 5 years ago.
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Thank you for the stunning tutorial. I tried drawing bears this morning and kept wondering why something felt off. Sure they looked cute and even when I've been partial to cute, cuddly, and reptilian myself (though not all at once. 
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Thank you for this tutorial.
I'm a canine and rabbit artist, and I have two distinct styles for both animals. I hope to add more animals into my "arsenal" as I continue to draw, and I guess a bear is my first big step.
A bear is going to appear once in my comic for the first chapter that I upload, so I want to make sure I get it right.
Thank you so much, AddictionHalfWay.
Can't wait to see more.
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This came up while I was looking for reference pictures for bears and has been extremely helpful! Thank you for making this! =]
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Really helpful, thank you.
I ddn't now that bears can't bend theyr neck like this... :I
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Dude love this, I'm about to start drawing anthro bears and this will help out alot
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Whoa drawing a bear is harder than i thought!Β Β Thank you so much for this tutorial!Β Β There's a lot of anatomy points for me to consider- especially since I've been drawing bears recently 
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It's just a lot of things different from horses, humans and wolves but once you're used to what they're made of, they aren't too tough
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I've recently started a bear hybrid species that is mostly bear anatomy and it was very difficult to find a good tutorial, so thank you very much for making this! it helped tremendously!
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You're a lifesaver omg
i've been looking for a bear anatomy tutorial for SO. LONG.
now I can finally make my grizzly character's reference and have it actually look like a bear! XD
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I'm so happy to hear that!
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Love this, extremely helpful awesome tutorial. *high fives fellow bear lover*
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omfg the smiley faces on the bears at the bottom-
I'm laughing so hard omfg
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first time ever drawing a bear today and it DIDN'T come out as a big dog!! Thank you <3Β
So helpful!!
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I'm glad to hear I helped!
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this is awesome, I wish I had found it when I was doing my college assignmentΒ
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very nice and funny!^^it ws so fun to draw the bear!thanks so much
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I'm glad to hear so! c:
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Pretty much 'Brother Bear's anatomy is a somewhat 'glorified dog bear's?
Then again they do that after they study the animal in question's anatomy quite a whole lot first...
Then they 'bend the boundaries' on the anatomy to make the preferred animal 'cartoonized' to be able to animate that much easier eh?
Still though, I find it sad that people as a whole (except for the few of us) take Disney's anatomy as the 'True anatomy' and then use that as a base...
And then go from that to create their characters than going to look up and search out references from real life and study from that instead.
So in a way, they use Disney's twisted anatomy as a 'cheat' rather than doing work and studying from real life pictures and skeletal structures of real bears....
It's similar to people using The Lion King as a basic anatomy rather then the actual real life anatomy of lions and felines in general.
Same with Balto as well....
In short I'm agreeing with ya. 100%, Hun! Sorry for my 'book' of a comment! 
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Brother Bear is definitely a case of them studying the animals anatomy and picking and choosing what they wanted, what they found defined a bear, as they were turning it into a cartoon. Which I'm cool with, I actually really love the bears in Brother Bear c': But they aren't too dog-like really, they're very bear-like.Β
One of the problems is people look at the Disney anatomy and not only assume Disney is the truth but fill in the blanks they can't make out. Which is where the dog anatomy gets spliced in.
Yeah w @ 
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I couldn't agree with you more!
I take it not many people agree? 
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