How to Draw Tinkerbell

Standing Tinker Bell

Start drawing a circle. Always start the head outline sketch by drawing a circle. This way you can identify how big or small, at this point, Tinker Bell's forehead should be.

Add a smaller circle. Continue making the outline of the head by adding another circle that is intersecting the outline for the forehead. This time it is the outline sketch for the lower part of the head.

Draw the outline for the features. The facial feature outlines consist of one vertical line and four horizontal lines. The vertical line is the guideline for the nose. The horizontal lines are for the eyebrows, eyes, nose and lips.

Outline for the ears. The guideline for drawing the ears is the beginnings or ends of the second and third horizontal facial feature outlines.

Draw the eyebrows, nose and lips. Start drawing the actual lines for the eyebrows, nose and the lips. Use the outline sketches as guidelines.

Draw the eyes. Draw two slanted acorn-shaped lines for her almond eyes.

Draw the irises.

Add the eyelashes. Since the eyes are the highlight of the face, we must take it one step at a time. To finish drawing the eyes, make sure that the eyelashes are shown as well. Cartoons have a different technique in drawing so you always have to keep in mind that the lines are limited. In drawing a cartoon character, one of the indications that you are drawing a girl is to add the eyelashes. You can put around 3-6 eyelashes each eye.

Outline sketch of the body. Next is the outline sketch of the body. When you are drawing Tinker Bell, you should always keep in mind that she is a feminine character that has a girly, childish attitude. So make sure that she has girly features and poise. Draw an 8-shaped line for her body and continue the outline sketches for her arms and feet, just the way you wanted her pose to be.

Draw the sketches for the actual lines. This time, draw the outlines that almost show the actual lines of Tinker Bell.

Draw the outline sketch for Tink’s fairy wings and her dress. To show that she is Tinker Bell, make sure that you are drawing her character style. Most of the cartoon characters have the same outfits so make sure that you get to know the outfits that Tinker Bell always wears. Her outfit is a green mini dress with a zigzag hemline and a pair of green doll shoes with little white pom-poms on top of them.

Erase some of the outline sketches and start drawing the actual lines for the hair.

Add the hair bun. To continue being in character, add Tink’s hair bun.

Draw the laces between the hair and the hair bun.

Draw the body. If you can try to exclude the lines where the dress should be located, or you can simply erase it if necessary.

Draw the shoes.

Add her mini dress.

Draw the actual line of the fairy wings. Erase the outline sketches completely once you have drawn the fairy wings.

Fill in the basic colors.

Color the background. Pink is preferable

Add the pixie dusts.

To make it look better, color the shadows and the highlights. To finish drawing Tinker Bell, add light strokes of darker colors on the shadows. And then, add light strokes on the highlights.

Sitting Tinker Bell

Draw two intersecting ovals for the head outline. Make the second oval smaller.

Sketch the outlines for the features of the face.

Stick figures and Eight figure for the body outline. Show the shape of the body and Tink’s actual sitting pose using these outline techniques. The 8-figure outline is the guidelines in drawing the female body contour while the stick figures serves as the skeletal figure of Tinker Bell to show where the arms and feet should be drawn.

Slightly erase the outlines and begin drawing the actual lines of the body.

Draw the actual lines of the head.

Continue with the fairy wings.

Use a marker to trace the actual lines with darker ink.

Color the draft.

Add the background.

Finish the drawing by adding the pixie dusts and the glow effect.