How To Draw A Cute Panda - Easy Step By Step Lesson For Beginners

Today, we’ll be learning how to draw a cute panda. There’s not much color involved but we’ve added 2 little blush dots on the cheeks just so we can have a little color.

We did a cute, little “x” for the belly button but you could try changing it to a star, heart or any other shape that you think might look good.

Art Supplies

Here’s a list of supplies we recommend to use, however, feel free to use whatever you can find around the house!

Pencil, Marker, Sharpie, Pen (Anything you can draw with!)
Paper (We love marker paper but use anything you can find).
Colored Markers (if you want to color the drawing).
Your imagination (feel free to change colors or add things to the drawing!).

A Few Tips Before You Start Drawing

The eye can be a little tricky here to make sure there is still white space around it. The easiest way to deal with that is to create 2 circles with the marker and leave space between them. That will be your white space for the eyes.

Let’s Draw A Cute Panda – Step By Step

How To Draw A Cute Panda Step 1 — **Step 1:** Start by drawing the panda’s head. Draw from top and around. When you reach the bottom, go back to the top and draw around the other way to connect.

How To Draw A Cute Panda Step 2 — **Step 2**: Next, draw the ears. Very simple half circles. One on each side of the head.

How To Draw A Cute Panda Step 3 — **Step 3:** To start the body, draw down, do a little curve back up part way and over.

How To Draw A Cute Panda Step 4 — **Step 4:** Repeat step 3 on the other side to finish off the panda’s body.

How To Draw A Cute Panda Step 5 — **Step 5:** Draw 2 arms. One on each side, angled downwards.

How To Draw A Cute Panda Step 6 — **Step 6:** Follow the arrows from the front of the face. Continue around until you reach the bottom hair spike.

For the last line, you can start from the front of the face and bring it back to connect to the last hair spike.

How To Draw A Cute Panda Step 7 — **Step 7:** Draw 2 eyes. You can draw the eye outline then draw a small circle inside each eye. Color in the eye, except for the small circle.

How To Draw A Cute Panda Step 8 — **Step 8:** Draw the nose and mouth. Try to center them between the 2 eyes.

How To Draw A Cute Panda Step 9 — **Step 9:** To finish off the eyes, we’ll draw the black patches of fur behind them. You don’t need to copy ours exactly.

We left one side larger than the other to add to the cuteness factor.

How To Draw A Cute Panda Step 10 — **Step 10:** You can color the red spots in with black. You can add more or less or change the areas. Experiment, if you’d like!

How To Draw A Cute Panda Step 11 — **Step 11:** To help show a bit more color and add to the cuteness level, we’ve added 2 little blush circles. We color these in with a light pink

How To Draw A Cute Panda Step 12 — **Step 12:** Once the blush is colored in, you are done! Show off your work. Great job!

Want More?

We have printable coloring pages and printable step by step instruction guides to help you learn to draw. Head on over to our coloring page section of our website to search and download them all!

Just want to download a coloring page of this specific character? Click the print button below to print off this lesson’s coloring & tracing pages.

Printable Panda Coloring Page

Here’s where you can download the Cute Panda coloring page & step by step instructions. You can use the coloring page to practice coloring the character and the step by step instructions are great if you are not near a computer or phone and want to try this lesson out!

Click the print icon to open print options for these pages. You can also click the image and save it directly to your device.