Imagine that one day your child comes from school and says: “Mom, we were asked to draw a duck in the art department, help me, I don’t know how!” Probably, each of the parents at least once in his life faced a similar situation. With a sigh, you take the album and see diligent attempts to portray this poultry in the lesson .
However, what is imprinted on a sheet looks like a
rugby ball with a head and a tail, like a giant plum coming to life, like a feathery egg with legs - in a word, just about anything but a bird called a duck. And here you understand that you yourself are unlikely to draw something more artistic! But the baby looks at you with eyes full of hope, you are an adult, which means that you can do absolutely everything! In no case should you fail a child.
How to draw a duck? Puzzled by this question, you, as a parent, put off household chores, start thinking about how to portray this bird? Our article details what to do. So, let's begin.
How to draw a duck with a pencil in stages
First you need to decide what kind of bird is needed - from those that are important to walk around the yard of a neighbor, or those who talk and get into funny troubles in children's cartoons? And let's both try! To immediately twelve points in the magazine and a teacher in drawing in a swoon? No sooner said than done!
How to draw a duck from an animated film
First, draw a circle around the middle of the album sheet and a large oval below it. Then, smoothly, giving the lines the shape of the neck of the future duck, connect a circle-head and an oval-body. Next, draw a small, slightly sharpened arc on the left side of the oval - this will be the tail.
Then inside the circle draw a smaller circle - the eye. In front, not far from it, draw a beak to the circle. And depict a wing, for this, add another oval in the shape of a chicken egg tilted diagonally to the oval-body.
Now the most anticipated moment has come, because you are going to the details. Draw another small circle inside the eye - the pupil - and half-shade it. Then carefully draw the head and neck along the contour, circle the body, add a wavy line of feathers on the wing, and wipe off the excess lines of the former circle and oval with the eraser, and now full parts of the duck body. Voila!
How to draw a duck that lives with her grandmother?
Begin according to the familiar pattern - a circle for the head, but small, below a large oval for the body. Smooth lines connect the head to the body, making the neck and convex breast. Draw a tail, with an uneven Christmas tree, marking feathers on its tip.
Add an elongated beak to the circle-head, and to the body-oval, using vertical lines, legs, to which draw triangle paws. Then draw a small eye and carefully draw the shape of the beak, head, neck and, of course, the body. With a slightly carved arc, mark the line of the wing, draw the legs. Do not forget that the fingers of the duck are webbed. That's all, your bird is ready!
Now you know how to draw a duck with a pencil, well, and the kid will color it on his own.