Woodpecker - a large beautiful bird which in the Russian forests it is possible to see quite often. Walking in the forest where there are sick trees, you by all means will hear its knock. It is convenient to draw a woodpecker from life as he is in the habit to be in one pose long enough. Choose the convenient location and try not to frighten off it.
It is required to you
- Sheet of paper
- Pencil
- Watercolor paints
- Tablet
Instruction
1. If there is no opportunity to draw a woodpecker from life, consider him on the picture. At a woodpecker a long body, the small head and a long sharp beak. As a rule, this bird holds vertical position, having strong hooked by paws for a branch, and is very close from a tree trunk.
2. Plan the provision of a trunk and branch. The branch grows perpendicular to a trunk or with a small deviation. Of course, neither that, nor another needs to be drawn on a ruler. It is admissible only if you are going to do applique. In the drawing of the line have to be slightly uneven.
3. Parallel to a trunk plan the center line for a woodpecker. Define proportions of a trunk and the head and note these proportions on a piece points. Points should not be very noticeable. Begin to draw a woodpecker from the head. It is almost round. If you are going to paint a woodpecker, easy lines plan arrangement of spots and eyes. The most characteristic position of a woodpecker — in a profile to the viewer therefore an eye, naturally, is visible one. It is quite big and oblong.
4. Draw an oval for a trunk. The oval is quite correct. On thickness it is almost equal to the head, but maybe is a little wider. Just as when drawing the head, plan arrangement of spots. A woodpecker — the motley birdie, and coloring is very important.
5. Look how wings of a woodpecker when he sits look. They quite long and something remind dress coat folds. The first line of a wing goes almost parallel to a breast of a bird, and back slightly plays for the line of a back. The lower ends "are kind of cut off" at right angle, parallel to a branch, but corners are a little rounded.
6. Now the turn of a tail came. The tail of the woodpecker sitting on a branch seems the long, lying on one side trapeze. Its side at the same time is below and is strongly slanted. Corners can even be not rounded.
7. Paws the woodpecker strong clings to a branch, Look how he does it. He clasps thin branches, and — just seizes those which are thicker claws. Try to give the most characteristic details of paws of this bird.
8. The woodpecker can be painted. For this purpose watercolor paints, colored pencils, wax crayons, pastel will approach. Paint at first big fields, gradually passing to more fine details. In this case it is possible not to fill in all leaf, and to make a background for a woodpecker. The woodpecker can be visible in a gleam between branches against the background of the blue sky, or against the background of foliage. Pay attention to a game of light spots in foliage and try to transfer her.
9. After you make a background, trace a tree trunk and a branch. At a woodpecker at first paint the largest spots, then those which more small. In the last turn draw an eye, edges of wings and plumelets of a tail.