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Uploaded:November 14, 2010
Artist:Finalprodigy
Difficulty:Intermediate  Intermediate Skill Level
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Updated:November 14, 2010
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How to Draw a Realistic Bird, Draw Real Bird

Let's draw a chickadee! I love these birds and hope you all will too by the end of this tutorial!

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how to draw a realistic bird step 1

STEP 1.

Alright, lets start off with some basic shapes. The body and can be seen as an elongated egg and the wings and tail feathers sort of like triangles.
 
how to draw a realistic bird step 2

STEP 2.

Start adding detail to the head and body. Nothing too intensive just chart out where everything is.
 
how to draw a realistic bird step 3

STEP 3.

Lets start working on those wings and feathers. Start by depicting the arm bones. It helps to know where these are before you start adding feathers. Also, draw in the tail feathers.
 
how to draw a realistic bird step 4

STEP 4.

It's best to work at the feathers section by section. I chose to start with the top eight feathers because they sort of for a triangle.
 
how to draw a realistic bird step 5

STEP 5.

Alright, now you can just repeat the previous step to the other wing and fill in the rest of the feathers. Add a dark outline to the bird afterwards.
 
how to draw a realistic bird step 6

STEP 6.

I used a gray pastel during this step to darken the drawing a little bit. I blended it in lightly using some tissue paper.After everything was looking a little gray, I started working on adding dark values to the head. I basically worked dark to light from here on.
 
how to draw a realistic bird step 7

STEP 7.

Moving on down and shading the body some more. I also added the shadow to the right of the body.
 
how to draw a realistic bird step 8

STEP 8.

Now we can start working on the wings, starting with the arms not worrying too much about the feathers yet. The light is coming from the left so everything on the right of the birds body is either going to have a shadow cast on it or be a bit darker.
 
how to draw a realistic bird step 9

STEP 9.

Moving on to the wings. Start the wings off by shading in dark splotches that correspond to the sectioning of each feather.
 
how to draw a realistic bird step 10

STEP 10.

Repeat the previous step on the other wing. Instead of shading in the rest of each feather, use a tortillion to blend them from the dark splotches inward.
 
how to draw a realistic bird step 11

STEP 11.

Now we can make our way down to the tail feathers. Don't forget the shadow that separates the body from the tail feathers!
 
how to draw a realistic bird step 12

STEP 12.

Here is the resulting image after adding some light spots with a white chalk pencil and darkening the background a bit more with some more gray pastel. I hope this has been helpful!
 

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cullen's comment

 

cullen ~ Dec 12, 2010, 2:17:27 PM
really beautiful, can't wait to see more :)
 
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LiviSaur ~ Dec 5, 2010, 12:28:49 PM
meowla Cute! watermelon
 
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finalprodigy ~ Nov 28, 2010, 11:34:53 AM
Wow.. O.O
@tiger1
wow awesome :D looks pretty much exactly the same as finalprodigys :) great work bro smile
 
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finalprodigy ~ Nov 28, 2010, 11:34:17 AM
nice dog!
@MagicPencil
Awesome!!! jawdrop jawdrop jawdrop jawdrop
 
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finalprodigy ~ Nov 28, 2010, 11:33:25 AM
I understand =D Your future is more improtant than the comic ;D So don;t rush :D
@MoonlightGazer
omg awesome! jawdrop
 
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finalprodigy ~ Nov 28, 2010, 11:31:45 AM
hey do u do tuts? ur arts awesome!
@wizard124
wow this is awesome boogie =D i love this is awesome i wish i could draw this T_T T_T yay yay
 
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finalprodigy ~ Nov 28, 2010, 11:30:48 AM
nice jack skellington! friends? poke
@newart_luv14
wow jawdrop wow jawdrop wow
 
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finalprodigy ~ Nov 28, 2010, 11:30:11 AM
sent u a friend request! yay
@snoopy
cool hai
 
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finalprodigy ~ Nov 28, 2010, 11:29:37 AM
its a butiful mustang!
@Anais
Just sayin u shouldnt get so mad. If he didnt say anything good, yes, I would be crushed too. Maybe also when he said that he could've ment on of artistperson95's other pictures. I just don't like to see ppl getting mocked and hated for a possible misunderstanding
 
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Anais ~ Nov 28, 2010, 7:06:03 AM
Just sayin u shouldnt get so mad. If he didnt say anything good, yes, I would be crushed too. Maybe also when he said that he could've ment on of artistperson95's other pictures. I just don't like to see ppl getting mocked and hated for a possible misunderstanding
 
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