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Uploaded:November 14, 2010
Artist:Finalprodigy
Difficulty:Intermediate  Intermediate Skill Level
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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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snoopy's comment

 

snoopy ~ Nov 19, 2010, 10:56:23 PM
cool hai
 
newart_luv14's comment

 

newart_luv14 ~ Nov 18, 2010, 5:52:38 PM
wow jawdrop wow jawdrop wow
 
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newart_luv14 ~ Nov 18, 2010, 5:51:32 PM
Its indeed very good, but the blackground ... yawn yawn yawn speechless speechless speechless
@MoonlightGazer
omg awesome! jawdrop
 
wizard124's comment

 

wizard124 ~ Nov 17, 2010, 8:16:35 PM
wow this is awesome boogie =D i love this is awesome i wish i could draw this T_T T_T yay yay
 
MagicPencil's comment

 

MagicPencil ~ Nov 15, 2010, 12:39:42 PM
Awesome!!! jawdrop jawdrop jawdrop jawdrop
 
tiger1's comment

 

tiger1 ~ Nov 15, 2010, 11:55:26 AM
wow awesome :D looks pretty much exactly the same as finalprodigys :) great work bro smile
 
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MoonlightGazer ~ Nov 15, 2010, 6:33:25 AM
omg awesome! jawdrop
 
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