Below you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw like Beatrix Potter and a Beatrix Potter Coloring Page. She was was an English writer, illustrator, scientist, and conservationist.

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This tutorial was made for fans of Peter Rabbit, and who would like to learn how to draw like Beatrix Potter. She was a skilled painter, but her look of creating very cute and soft looking animals in human clothing, can be accomplished with pencil crayons too.

Students who are new to drawing, can use some regular pencil crayons and practice their shading, but those that want to get a softer palette, like the sample shown above, might want to try out some of the higher-quality pencil crayon sets that are available, to get more color choices. There’s nothing like finding that perfect shade of brown, to make a drawing have some sophistication to it.

Another tip for getting a softer look? Use an ultra-fine tip black marker for tracing the pencil drawing. Or just leave the original pencil drawing alone too. Either way, this is one project where a bold black line is not called for. Beatrix’s artwork has a lovely soft quality to it, and imitating it is a fun way to experiment with our drawing style too!

Beatrix Potter remains one of the world’s best-selling and best-loved children’s authors. She wrote and illustrated 28 books, including her 23 Tales which have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.

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Materials

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DRAWING PAPER

Pacon Drawing Paper, White, Standard Weight, 9″ x 12″, 500 Sheets

SHARPIE PERMANENT MARKER, ULTRA FINE POINT

Set of 12 count colored pencils. These professional colored pencils contain soft and flowing colors that will allow you to easily glide through every line and detail in your drawings.

LYRA COLORED PENCILS SKIN TONE

Set of 12 count colored pencils. These professional colored pencils contain soft and flowing colors that will allow you to easily glide through every line and detail in your drawings.

LYRA COLORED PENCILS

Lyra Ferby Giant Triangular Colored Pencils – Set of 12 Short Colored Pencils with A 6.25mm Core. Avoid tip breakage, crumbling and frequent sharpening with this set of 12 colored pencils.y glide through every line and detail in your drawings.

Directions

Time needed: 45 minutes

Step by step directions to draw like Beatrix Potter

Draw bunny head, eyes, nose, mouth.
Add the whiskers on the cheeks.
Draw two ears on top of the head.
Add the tie and start the jacket.
Draw the bent arms on top of jacket.
Erase lines, add belly line and buttons.
Draw two feet on the bottom.
Erase lines, and draw background.
Trace with a thin black marker and color with colored pencils.

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