How To Draw A Realistic Bird Step By Step For Beginners
By: Maheen Naveed
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Drawing birds

Hello everyone and this time we’re going to be talking about drawing birds. We’ve done before our name is Polly Lee Hammond and the medium on this one is using colored pencils and watercolor pencils. What I liked about the book is it has a lot of practice and examples in illustrations. It’s fairly basic with not a lot of details involved. So, it’s very good and simple and easy for beginners to even follow and that’s what I noticed about a lot of her books. They are very easy to follow so without further ado let’s go ahead and get into it. Now, this is one of her smaller books which I found kind of surprising. Because a lot of the books that I know from hers are quite thick.

Drawing of a bird

Actually, we’re going to go ahead and start with chapter 2. This book although it is a little bit on the smaller end. The does have chapters but chapter 1 mostly talks about you know you can do it. It’s more like a pep talk that shows the difference between some of her student's works before. After they take her class but it is kind of interesting to see some of the different pieces easy cool drawing ideas. But anyway chapter 2 talks you know most about the materials you learn about the different products that she uses. She uses like five different you’ll see five different kinds of colored pencils. I believe is it for no it’s five. She uses like five different kinds throughout.

Drawing of bird

This whole book but what I liked about it is that she describes and does examples of each one on different kinds of paper. I found that to be really intriguing. She also goes into detail about the papers that she uses and even going into detail. As you can see on each one now the only problem with this. This book is kind of older and of course, it also goes into some other materials that she uses. But as I was saying the book is kind of older. So, a lot of these papers and these pencils probably have either changed or probably don’t even exist anymore. So, you may have to do a little bit of searching. We if you do look for them and then chapter 3 talks about learning and wasn’t chapter 3 was kind of an eye-opener for me.

Drawing birds easy

Because I never really thought of it. This way that the way she put it basically was understanding different brands of products have different characteristics. Which you know is true but I never thought of using them. Those characteristics like if I was wanting a smokier look use a certain brand of pencil. I was wanting a glossy err look used. This certain brand of pencil sketch drawing for some reason that just never clicked into my head. Until I read through this so I really enjoyed that little moment technique. Now because you are using a various amount of pencils. There are going to be a few techniques involved. But it says brings out how to learn to do.

Bird drawing easy

Those techniques properly and learn these colors. Color is very important especially when you’re trying to mix and get certain colors. Especially if the color that you need you don’t exactly have. But you have to learn how colors associate with each other on the color wheel. How the different parts like primary secondary complementary and what are tense what’s warm cool colors etc. Also learning the five elements of shading and then also has some practice with examples. Then learning different shapes with shading and also how to break your subjects down into shapes. So that’s very helpful especially for those beginners who might be new at this and then of course chapter 5.

Drawing a bird easy

She always has one chapter at least about graphing and she teaches you how to graph or how to use a projector and how it can hope, how it can help you hone. Your skills to eventually help you learn how to freehand draw. Because not because starting out you’re probably not going to be able to master freehand away drawing right off the bat. Then chapter six now this does talk about a lot of bird. This a little bit more but these are skills that you know anybody any artist could have in their arsenal techniques and skills to have. But it’s basically going into learning how to study the structure of their beak’s feet feathers.

Drawing birds flying

The characteristics and knowing how each one is what they are used for because each shape and each design is made for something different. But it also gives you some examples like between a bald eagle and an owl. Then pelicans and the chicken and a toucan and how you know learning to view especially with a perspective like especially during flight. How feathers changed like the view from and also how it changes from species to species. She also emphasizes learning to draw from all wings using actual lifelike or actual life subjects. Which of course is always the better alternative but if you can’t some references is usually a good alternative for that.

Drawing a bird flying

Chapter 7 is when she starts getting into the pencils. Now the ones that she uses in chapter 7 are the Prismacolor very thin pencils. I do have a set of these myself and I have the whole color line. You do enjoy these because they are a harder lead than the Prisma premier pencils. So, they do have a rougher finish but she gives some examples of drawings done with them on different papers. It also does examples of some complementary colors between her bird subjects. The papers and those are really neat and then here and the Prismacolor colored pencils. As I was saying like between the very things. The premier pencils have a waxy coating and they are a lot softer.

Drawing angry birds

So, the color pigments are going to show up a lot brighter. Then they will with the Vera thins but she gives you know examples of drawings done with. Those on different papers just like in chapter 7 and chapter 9 are basically Prisma Zahn suede or feller paper. Which is actually more like a cloth type paper. But it changes the pencil's characteristics and completely. It is so cool how it does it and then chapter 10 is blending with studio pencils. This is another line of different colored pencils. But these are by Derwent I have not used. These personal so I cannot really vouch for them but they do look like. They have a pretty lay of color. I believe that these are clay-based but I’m not a hundred percent sure.

Realistic bird drawing

She does go into detail about them. In this chapter though but of course she also has examples of her using them. Such as the Goldfinch and the bluebirds and how she also prefers to use them. These for her backgrounds because they care they’re easy to blend. It’s just examples of using dark backgrounds which is really cool. Chapter 11 is about using water colored pencils and of course, is going to be the same studying about. How she uses her watercolored pencils and even learning how the values will change drastically from wet to dry. That’s something that you have and again how pressure will change. The tone and the hue of the color that you’re trying to work with.

Drawing birds step by step

So definitely a lot of things to keep in mind when you work with watercolor pencils. But examples of some drawings that she did with those and some work. But they do have a really pretty outcome. If you know how to do use them properly which I am still learning myself. But one of these days I will get them and that is pretty much it. These again very simple very straightforward definitely recommend drawing tutorial for beginners. But that’s what I like about Lee Hammonds's books. She’s always usually because she specializes in teaching beginners and she’s always usually very good about being specific, basic, simple, her descriptions and her instructions. How things should go and how things work. So usually I’m going to recommend her books to people. Who is just starting out but anyway that’s the end of this one like I said small book about 80 pages? If that and most of that is appendix and examples. So, I hope you enjoyed this little review.

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