How to Draw Tigger

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Hello and welcome!
Here you can learn how to draw Tigger in three different positions.

In the first part of this lesson we'll draw Tigger's head only, because its small details are very important and need to be done carefully.
In the second part of this lesson we draw a full body for each head from the first section.

How to Draw Tigger - Part 1: The Head

Click on one of these links to start drawing the head.

Head:
Front View


Different Emotional Expressions


Profile


Three-Quarter Profile


If you want to jump over to the second part of this lesson and draw the body, click here.

How to Draw Tigger 1.1 - Head: Front View

The whole body of Tigger in the frontal position has the size of four heads.
When you draw the head now, leave space for three more heads below it, if you want to draw the entire body later.


How to Draw Tigger - Head: Front View >  Steps 1 - 4

1. Start by drawing a thick oval for Tigger's snout.
2. Then add the chin below the snout, making it a bit smaller than the snout itself.
3. Now you can draw the main shape of Tigger's head. Make it twice as broad as the snout, and going upwards from the snout as large as the chin.
Note how pointy the head is at the left and the right.
4. Draw in a boomerang-shaped stripe on Tigger's forehead. This is serving as his eyebrows. Connect it at the bottom through curved lines with the snout.

How to Draw Tigger - Head: Front View >  Steps 5 - 8

5. Draw in the nose and the ears in this step. Place the nose in the upper middle of the snout. It has the shape of a triangle with curved sides.
Attach the ears to the pointy sides of the head.
6. Draw a curved line through the ears, separating the inner ear from the outer ear. Then change the bottom of the snout into a curved line, and draw a connecting line going down from the nose.

7. Draw a single line into each ear. Then connect the upper edges of the nose with the snout's side through straight lines. Also add two rounded shapes beside the snout. These are the corners of Tigger's mouth.
8. The other stripes on Tigger's head look like slightly curved triangles. Draw one on each side coming down from the head's top, and two on each side coming up from the bottom.

How to Draw Tigger - Head: Front View >  Steps 9 - 11

9. There are just a few details left.
Draw in the eyes as small circles with curved lines above them, let six whiskers grow around the nose, and then place a tiny stripe on each side of the snout, where the lines that come from the nose are touching it.


10. - 11.
Now you can carefully trace your pencil drawing with a black pen, erase the pencil lines afterwards, and then color your drawing. If you want to draw the entire body however, wait until the whole body is complete before you do this.

If you want to continue right away with the rest of the body, click here to jump over.

Next, I show you a few simple ways how you can change the emotional expressions of Tigger's face.

Emotional Expressions:

How to Draw Tigger - Emotional Expressions > Joy and Happiness


To create a very joyful face, you just need to make two little alterations.
First, you draw the eyes not as circles, but as two thin lines that are slightly curved upwards.
Second, you make the chin-shape a bit longer. Then you have enough space to draw in an opened mouth.

Of course, you can also change the eyes while leaving the mouth closed.

How to Draw Tigger - Emotional Expressions > Sadness or Worry


To create the expression of sadness, draw the small lines above the eyes pointing upwards, and let the thick, black eyebrow-stripe follow this movement.
Erase the separation between snout and chin, and draw in a narrow, opened mouth sitting a bit sidewards.
Also let the ears on hang down.

How to Draw Tigger - Emotional Expressions > Anger or Frustration

Sure, you don't see this emotion too often on Tigger's face, but sometimes he puts in on to scare his friends a little.

Draw two lines from the edges of the big eyebrow-stripe to the middle of the snout, creating a thin frame around the eyes. Also draw a vertical line going upwards between the eyes.
Here, there is no separating line between snout and chin either. Draw the corners of the mouth pointing downwards to express discontent.

How to Draw Tigger 1.2 - Head: Profile

The whole body of Tigger in this position has roughly three times the height and length of his head.
Take care to leave enough space on your paper, if you want to draw the entire body later.

Here are the steps how to draw the head:

How to Draw Tigger - Head: Profile >  Steps 1 - 4

1. Begin with a simple circle.
2. Then attach a shape for the snout at its side. It should be as long as the circle's diameter. The middle-axes are just there to point out where the snout is touching the circle. On the right side, the snout starts a bit above the horizontal axis, and it touches the circle's bottom slightly to the right of the vertical axis.

3. Separate the snout with a curved line into an upper and lower section, making the upper one slightly thicker than the lower one. Round off the front of the lower section at the top. Then cut off a part of the circle's top and bottom to make Tigger's head rather flat.
4. Erase the over standing parts of the circle and the snout. Then draw in the nose and a broad frame around the mouth. You can also sketch in the neck in this step (if you want to draw the entire body, you may have to change the neck later).

How to Draw Tigger - Head: Profile >  Steps 5 - 8

5. Erase the last part of the circle, and draw the mouth-line all the way to the frame. Add ears to the end of the head, afterwards.
6. Now you can draw in a big stripe on the forehead. Add a curved line going from the lower part of this stripe to the beginning of the snout. Make a few changes to the ear in the front, too.
Separate its inner part with a curved line from the outer part, and then draw a single line into it.

7. Now it's time to draw the rest of the stripes.
There is one more stripe going down from the head's top, three more stripes in the lower area of the head, and two stripes on the neck. Make all these stripes slightly curved.
8. You're almost done; there are just a few small details to add.
Draw in two tiny stripes on the snout, lying on the separating line. Add a small line behind the nose. Then draw in the eye and the whiskers, and Tigger's head is complete.

How to Draw Tigger - Head: Profile >  Steps 9 - 10


9. - 10. There are two more optional steps you can do.
You can retrace the pencil lines with a thin black pen, erase the pencil lines, and then color your picture.
But don't do this right now, if you want to draw the rest of Tigger's body.
Instead, click here to jump to the whole body drawing section.

How to Draw Tigger 1.3 - Head:

Three-Quarter Profile

Tigger's whole body has roughly four times the height and three times the width of his head in this position.
Leave enough space on your paper, if you want to draw the entire body later.

How to Draw Tigger - Head: Three-Quarter Profile >  Steps 1 - 4

1. Begin with a circle.
2. Add the shapes for the upper and lower part of Tigger's snout to its side. Together they should roughly have the same height as the circle itself. Compare the straight line in the picture to the circle's size to see this.

3. The nose resembles a triangle, but is seen from a side angle. Draw it in at the top of the snout, and connect its bottom through a slightly curved line with the snout. Also draw the opened mouth on the lower jaw.
4. Add a big eyebrow-stripe with a frame below it in this step. Because of the view angle, the side that is slightly turned away from us has to be shorter.

How to Draw Tigger - Head: Three-Quarter Profile >  Steps 5 - 8

5. Cut off a part of the circle's top and bottom to bring Tigger's head into a lengthy shape. You can actually erase the entire circle afterwards. I only erased it partially in this step, and erased the rest in step 7.
6. Draw in the ears, and make the ear in the foreground a bit larger than the other one. Also sketch in the neck (if you want to draw the entire body, you may have to redraw the neck later).

7. Separate the inner part of the ears with a curve line. Also draw a line that divides the upper snout in two sections, curves down to touch the corner of the mouth, and then curves around the root of the lower jaw.
8. Draw the eyes as two small circles, add a line into each ear, and then let whiskers grow out of the snout.

How to Draw Tigger - Head: Three-Quarter Profile >  Steps 9 - 11

9. Finally, it's time to stripe Tigger's head.
Draw one big stripe going down from the top of the head, and three smaller stripes coming up from the bottom. Well, two of them actually grow out of the lower jaw.


10. - 11. Optionally, you can now redraw the pencil lines with black ink, erase the pencil lines, and color your drawing afterwards. If you want to draw the entire body, however, wait until it is complete before you do this.
(I changed the neck and the eyes in these steps a little bit for the full body drawing. And obviously, the 12. should be a 11. in the picture.)

Click here, if you want to draw the rest of Tigger's body.

How to Draw Tigger - Part 2: The Body

In the second part of this drawing lesson, we assume that you have already drawn Tigger's head, and we continue to draw the rest of the body in different positions.

Body:
Front View

Profile

Three-Quarter Profile

How to Draw Tigger 2.1 - Body: Front View

1. When Tigger is standing upright, his body is about 4 times as high as the head. The torso is a long oval that is as broad as the head without ears. Draw it in, and leave space of half a head below it for the legs and feet.
2. Tigger's legs are very, very short. They almost immediately transition into the knees and then go down into the large feet. Let them grow out of the big oval at the bottom.
3. The arms are much longer than the legs. Including hands they are about as long as the distance from chin to the beginning of the legs. It's important to clearly point out the elbows. The hands are pretty simple, since Tigger doesn't have single fingers, except for the thumb.
4. Erase the parts of the torso where arms and legs are connected to it. Then draw another, slightly smaller, oval into it. It goes all the way to the bottom and reaches up just below the chin.

5. Add Tigger's tail in this step. It is fairly thick, and has a rather flat end.
Having done that, you already drew the entire body, and we just have to add a lot of stripes on it now.
6. There are five ring shaped stripes going around the tail. One at the beginning, one at the end, and three in between. Make the stripe on the tip a bit thicker than the others. One of the five stripes is hidden behind the leg, and the last one is largely hidden behind the torso.
Also draw three slightly curved spike-shaped stripes on each leg.

7. Now place two spiky stripes in between the other stripes on the tail everywhere.
8. Draw more of these stripes on the arms and shoulders, and Tigger is complete!


9. - 10. Now you can ink and color the entire Tigger drawing, if you like to do these additional steps.

Tigger is ready to play funny tricks on his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.
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How to Draw Tigger 2.2 - Body: Profile

1. In this picture Tigger is going to stand on all fours.
To accommodate for that, draw the neck pointing a bit backwards.
2. Draw a bump for the shoulder at the neck's end, and also lengthen the lower line of the neck towards the left, until it ends under the ear.

3. Now you can draw in the first leg.
The lines are pointing out the proportions:
The distance from the bottom of the head to the knee equals the height of one head, and it is one more head to go all the way to the bottom of the foot. Don't be too precise about the proportional guidelines. They are just there for orientation.

4. Now you can draw in Tigger's torso. It is about as long as the head and goes up towards the end.
5. Draw in the hind legs in this step. They are larger than the front legs in this position, and also a little bit thicker.
(It's just the other way round than in the standing position.
That's the cool way a cartoon character can adjust itself.)

6. Draw in the second pair of legs now. Simply draw them parallel to the legs in the foreground, and only place them slightly higher.


7. Add Tigger's tail to his hind end. Make it pretty long and thick.
8. And then draw five stripes on it, making the one at the tip the thickest.

9. Stripe Mania!
There are tons of stripes to add in this step, but afterwards Tigger will be complete.
Draw two small, spiky stripes in between the other stripes on the tail,
three stripes on the front side of the legs and two on their back sides.
There is one big stripe on the hind end, three smaller ones on the back,
one stripe is on the shoulder, and three on the neck.
Phew, that's all.


10. - 11. Now you can finally retrace and color your Tigger drawing.
And there you have him, ready to jump and run and do all sorts of goofy things, being the funny guy that he is.

How to Draw Tigger 2.3 - Body:

Three-Quarter Profile

1. Draw Tigger's body as a bean shape that is twice as large as his head.
2. To draw the arms, you can take the length of the head as an orientation.
One arm is just as long as the head, while the other one is a bit shorter, since you see it from a side angle.

And so comes the end of this drawing lesson, and I hope you enjoyed it.
Now you know how to draw Tigger.