The theme of art lessons at the school is often all kinds of birds. And if your child is in elementary school, most likely, he will have to help with homework. In the end, any parent wants his child to bring home only good grades. Even by drawing.
And so that you can look worthy in the eyes of the baby, we offer several recommendations on how to draw a bird in stages. After reading them, you can easily portray a bird in flight, a bird sitting on a branch, and even the legendary Angry birds, for which the child will tell you a separate enthusiastic "thank you". So, let's get to the important point.
Who will we draw?
First you need to decide on the "model." Let's say it will be a parrot. It is popular, easily recognizable, beautiful and colorful - this means that your child will like it. We will stop on it.
How to draw a bird in stages?
Expand the album sheet vertically and depict a circle-head and an elongated oval attached to it - the future torso. Now you need to draw two arcs. One of its ends connects a circle and an oval in place of the neck, the second cleaved to the bottom of the oval in place of the tail.
Now connect the head and body with streamlined lines, forming a solid figure of a parrot. Thus, both the circle and the oval appear to be inside the figure. They helped us to correctly depict the contours of the parrot, and therefore they are no longer needed - you can wipe them.
Make the body pointed down - there the wing will end. Now draw the details. Depict a powerful beak. So far it is possible in the form of a triangle with slightly rounded corners. Draw a small round eye. Decorate the wing, which begins almost under the beak and ends just below the body, hiding the base of the tail.
To the body, draw a long tail descending from under the wing. If it does not completely fit on the sheet, that's okay. On the head, draw a “hat” and cheeks, in the eye draw a point - the pupil. Draw a pointed beak in two parts. And the most basic thing is plumage. We will tell in more detail how to draw a feather of a bird.
Depicting a feather
Draw a slightly bent line. From its half and further let there be a narrow elongated oval. In general, the whole structure is like a willow leaf. Make the base sharper, double, tapering up. Draw the feathery part with wavy lines, slightly sharpening and giving the shape of a real feather. Strokes of different thicknesses, diverging from the center to the edges, give the pen a realistic look.
Done! You can equip feathers of different sizes and our parrot. Naturally, it will not hang in the air.
How to draw a bird on a branch?
Attach two hooked legs to the torso. Between them, “thread” a branch or its fragment, depicting it in the form of two parallel lines, the distance between which is later shaded. If desired, you can add one or two leaves. And the last: wipe the unnecessary lines with an elastic band, if they still remain. With a well-confident hand, circle the parrot along the contour, highlighting the convex breast, tail contours, wing. Voila! Now you know how to draw a bird in stages. You just have to colorize a feathered friend. However, the child himself will calmly cope with this.
Bird in flight
In the meantime, we will take up the next image and see how to draw a bird in flight. Now let it be someone more powerful, worthy of being captured in the sky, for example, an eagle. But don't be alarmed! It is not so difficult to portray. Now we’ll figure out how to draw a bird in stages.
With a pencil, sketch a jagged oval and a long arc that clings to the oval with its base. Both ends of the arc meanwhile will symbolize the wings. Note that the oval should be tilted slightly to the right and end approximately in the middle of the right line of the arc - this is important for maintaining proportions.
Now just to the left of the intersection of the arc and the oval, draw a circle - the future head of the eagle. Next, draw on either side of the oval another line that goes a little further than the arc, and stretches to it - this will be the lower part of the wings.
In the lower part of the oval, draw two short lines diverging in different directions, there will be a tail there later. And we begin to transform obscure outlines into a real eagle. Connect the tail lines with one line, you get a “fan”. Draw a streamlined head ending with a pointed beak, shape a neck turning into a torso. In both upper arches depicting the wings, draw another line, slightly longer than the arcs. Erase all excess lines with an elastic band. In the middle of the tail, outline three paws with three short, slightly curved hook-shaped curves.
Make out a predatory bent beak and outline a place for the eye. With several long feathers of different sizes, located at a little distance from each other, connect the upper and lower lines of the wing, thus combining them into one whole. Separate the head with the neck from the rest of the body. Now draw the wings. Let their lower part be slightly wavy. Divide each wing along three parts, the lower should be the largest. In each compartment, draw parallel, slightly oblique, vertical lines that are approximately equally spaced from each other. Draw the same lines in the tail of the eagle. Shape your eye in the form of a small circle, which at the top is crossed by a straight line. Draw the wave that separates the head from the body with a wave - feathers. And the final stage is to properly decorate this bird.
Head and tail remain white with a slight grayish hatching. The legs are a little darker, almost black. They show shading in the form of frequent horizontal lines with small gaps. And the wings are black, shaded along the vertical lines drawn earlier. Only occasionally leave small gaps between the feathers. This sun falls on the wings, and they shimmer under its rays. Done! We hope you now understand how to draw a bird in stages. It's not so scary, is it ?!
Angry birds
And finally, let's move on to the most interesting for the child. Let’s figure out how to draw an Angry birds. Do you not know these characters ?! This is unforgivable! An urgent need to be corrected. After all, Angry birds is cool! Every child will say so. And in order not to fall in his eyes and look like a modern parent, you must certainly be “in the subject”. These fighting birds are a little funny, but no doubt menacing and angry. Among all the birds in the hierarchy of babies, they definitely occupy the first place.
In the cult puzzle game, Angry birds oppose the Kingdom of green pigs, who do their best to steal their eggs in order to make scrambled eggs, and are clearly asking for war. By launching such a bird from a slingshot, you can bring down a pig or even several. Each bird has its own appearance and a set of qualities inherent only to her. There is a bomb bird, a balloon bird, yellow, green, red birds ... Let's try to draw a couple of them. See, the child will squeak with delight! With our detailed instructions, there is nothing easier than understanding how to draw a bird in pencil in stages.
Cartoon yellow bird
Let's start with the yellow bird. Meet this Chuck. He knows how to accelerate in flight and brought a lot of trouble to the Swine Kingdom! So, do not be surprised, but this bird is triangular in shape, so to begin with, draw an isosceles triangle with slightly rounded corners with the tip pointing up. It is immediately the head and body.
About a little above the middle of the triangle, draw menacingly shifted eyebrows in the form of long narrow rectangles that are slightly wider outside than the bridge of the nose. Add a beak consisting of two parts, the upper of which is longer than the lower. Immediately beneath the eyebrows, draw large round eyes with black pupils. Under the beak, draw a small arc, the ends resting on the lower body. It remains to add the tail and crest. They are almost the same shape, somewhat reminiscent of dancing flames. Voila! The yellow Angry birds is ready for new feats!
Red bird from Angry birds cartoon
And so that Chuck does not get bored, we will draw a friend for him - the red bird of Red. To do this, first draw a large circle - this will be the torso.
On its top, draw two pen menacingly sticking out slightly to the side, resembling hare ears in shape. On the left side of the circle, draw a tail in the form of three slightly irregular rectangles extending from one base. At the bottom of the circle (inside it), draw an arc the same as that of Chuck. Again, the shifted eyebrows, giving Red a combat look, round eyes with black pupils and a beak, but a slightly different shape - it seems to consist of two triangles with a common base, with the upper one slightly larger than the lower one.
That's all! No wings, no feathers, no legs - beauty, and nothing more!
We draw a feeding trough
And finally, let's talk about how to draw a bird feeder. Usually it looks like a small house. Lay the landscape sheet horizontally and proceed. Draw a rectangular base and just above it, in parallel with another rectangle of the same size, the future roof. Connect both shapes with vertical stripes from corner to corner.
The feeder will be through, without walls, so that birds can fly up to food from any side. Now you need to do the details - turn the top rectangle into a triangular roof, wipe off the excess lines with an elastic band. Fill out more voluminously the embellishments connecting the bottom and top of the feeder, shade the bottom so that it does not look transparent. “Pour” grains in the form of grains. On the roof, draw horizontal parallel strips at an equal distance from each other so that it looks like a plank. That's all, the feeder is ready!
Conclusion
Now you are a true pro in everything related to the image of birds, and you will definitely not have any difficulties with your homework on drawing!