Drawing birds is a wonderful way to look more carefully at nature. Here are some resources I hope help pull birds and understand them deeper. If you comprehend the anatomy of birds, you will draw better what you see. Many blog articles give demonstrations and step-by-step details for drawing birds. View the links to the right of your screen. For more information, see the Law Guide to draw birds. The most important thing to improve your birdlife and sketch is to draw more frequently. Keep your sketch materials at your fingertips. Please leave remarks and inquiries, and I will raise these help according to your post.
Use photos to help you understand the birds.
I use high-resolution photos to assist me in learning the plumage of birds. The photographers who manage the following websites gave my students (including them) and me permission to use their photos as a reference. If you publish a drawing essential to one of these photos, please recognize the photographer in the credits. I thank these photographers for their wonderful bird photography and generosity that support us and our work.
Drawing birds
Here’s my step-by-step process for blocking the form of a bird. These steps are treated as easily as possible (with minimal pressure with a graphite pin or an erasable blue pencil. The teachers can use this page to help the class learn birds to learn birds. Download a high-resolution version for printing here. Once you have the basic form blocked in them, you can add details to this frame. It’s a fun party, but do not skip the first steps and jump to draw the beak and eyes. The details without structure are nowhere.
Start with the basic form.
The essential domain of the drawing is initially receiving the basic form. Instead of focusing on the details at the beginning of a picture, make light sketch lines to capture their subject’s attitude, proportions, and angle. Start your bird sketch by setting the bird’s attitude or angle to which it sits with a single line. Add an oval for a body, then a process for the charge. Then stop and match your balances. It is leisurely to adjust the span of the head earlier in the drawing. In the cartoons below, I first shot the head too big.
I pressed the head after I tested the share, so the birds do not have their heads with the shares of a tit. Specify the positions of the eyepiece, the tail, the front edge of the wing, and the legs. Carve in angles where you find it around the head and tail covers. These angles around the head and the tail make it possible to break the imprint of the two circles they initially built the bird. Without this, it’s easy for your drawings to look like a snowman. Many artists go beyond these important initial stages, but the initially spent time will finish at the end. As soon as you capture the silhouette’s attitude, proportions, and angle, you can add heavier pencil details to these initial lines that end with color.
Look at the surface
Among the springs, a bird looks like a chicken. Note that the knee is hidden under his feathers, and they sometimes see below the body. It’s his ankle! The wing springs attach themselves to the hand and forearm.
Learn to see feather groups
The investigation of birds’ anatomy helps you draw birds more precisely. Feathers grow specific areas on the bird’s body with naked skin between them. These spring groups define the shape and contours, and the patterns on the springs refer directly to the group of underlying springs. This animation moves between drawing a spurious piece, its informal form, and a diagram that emphasizes springs.
Birds are form added.
Spring groups are under individual muscle control and can be annoyed or moved together. The birds hunt when they are cold and slide their springs when they warm up. Birds move their feathers also some of the ads. Take a glance at the form of the changing bird carefully that different spring groups are inflated or relaxed.
Learn to draw birds
People often ask me who came first: my interest in drawing birds or looking at birds. I have to answer, “The two.” The two things always go together and complement each other and support themselves. Drawing forces me to completely look at a bird and ask questions that I would not consider if I had seen correctly. In this sense, the drawing will be a way to interact with the bird.
Start with big forms.
The birds are complex, and the drawing is to be simplified. Start your drawing with great shapes to establish proportions and an attitude – a process for the head, a line to show the inclination of the snout and the eyes. Imagine the point where the body is balanced, and a vertical line for the feet lays there. Draw these lines easily and use them as a guide. Then use stronger lines when you build the mold. Practice seeing simple shapes on a living bird and experiment with paper. Soon you will see the bird in your sketch, even if everything you have drawn is generic forms.
Smash
Almost everything we see if you look at a bird is sprung. Keeping this in mind and developing a penal extent is fundamental to pulling birds. The mainspring function is optimized to move through the air at high speed easily. All springs grow to the tail and wear against each other to make an elegant aerodynamic shell. After starting your drawing with great shapes, you must connect them with curved lines without angles or breaks. The only place where a bird normally has the air “soft” is at the bottom of the body between the portions and the tail and sometimes on the back of the head.
Put feathers intentionally
Every bird has an amazing range of different sizes and springs specializing in a particular function and position on the bird. The organized arrangement of these springs follows a similar pattern in all birds. Spring lines radiate from the accounting basis and drive in the back and the flanks. The springs on the front of the head, near the bill, are the smallest, and these tiny feathers are only moving. The springs on the body are longer and more flexible, with springs on the flanks on the flanks often camped and capable of covering the lower edge of the folded wing. The long springs of the wings and the tail are long, straight, and stiff and move very differently from the body’s springs.
Learning by doing
Most of your illustration trials do not cause pretty pictures but do not let it stop. Measure your success through ideas and understanding of the process. Every drawing demonstrates what you know about a bird and shows what you do not know. With practice, you can fill these gaps in your knowledge. Try some drawings. Birds look like. Try other drawings. I guarantee that your drawings will get better. But do not worry. Pulling birds are about much more than drawing birds. Take the satisfaction to see the world a little differently and to understand something better.