How to draw an eagle in a step-by-step pencil - three master classes of varying difficulty
Many people think that drawing a majestic, powerful and sharp-sighted bird such as an eagle is quite difficult, especially for beginners. In reality, depicting an eagle is a simple task that even a child can cope with. The following will be a few options, how to draw an eagle step by step and where to start.
Simple drawing
If there are skills in drawing birds, the image of an eagle with a simple pencil, will be the consolidation of experience. You will need a sheet of scrapbook paper, the pencil itself and, just in case, an eraser.
The step-by-step instructions consist of the following steps:
- Initially, it is necessary to make preparations: place a scrapbook sheet in a horizontal position and sharpen pencils.
- Starting from the top, approximately in the middle of the sheet, draw a long oval in the shape of a bird's feather. Add two more of the same in the direction to the left, you should get an image similar to the three thumbs, take from the last arbitrary line down to the middle of the sheet.
- Change the direction of the line toward the upper left corner of the paper, this section should be with some waves. At the end of exit four feathers, curved line to finish the outline of the wing.
- From the wing to form the top of the head with an arc-shaped line, then depict the beak, hook-shaped.
- Mark the throat with a short segment and direct the line to the bottom, forming the paws with a shaggy back part. Draw sharp claws on the ends of the paws.
- A small semicircle to mark the back of the body, from it to depict the tail with a fan.
- Finish the wing, with which the work began. This should be done wavy line with the addition of small feathers.
- Detail drawing, by separating the zigzag segment of the head from the body and highlighting the basic contours in bold.
- Dorisize eye and eyebrows. Make paws and claws more expressive.
- If desired, you can paint the picture, to make it more realistic.
As you can see, there is nothing complicated in this work, to achieve the desired result, you just need to follow the instructions.
Drawing of medium difficulty
After mastering the first method, this task will not seem more difficult. It will be necessary to depict the silhouette of this bird with a simple pencil, followed by coloring with paints. For work you need to prepare:
- A sheet of paper;
- a simple pencil;
- eraser;
- a container of water;
- water;
- a thin brush;
- Water colors (you can use some other colors, for example, honey, gouache, etc.).
Now you can proceed to the fine art. To embody the eagle on paper you need to do the following steps:
- Place a sheet of paper horizontally. In the center of the album sheet, draw a large oval, elongated vertically (the basis of the body). Immediately above him to draw a similar figure, but in the horizontal arrangement and is three times smaller in size (the basis of the head).
- From a large figure to move in different directions arched lines. On a small oval outline of the head zigzag line, finish drawing a sharp hooked beak and eyes. Separate the beak from the head with a small arc.
- Next, to the lower part of the body to draw a fan tail, which has eight small feathers. Doris another row of eight feathers, larger in size. On the sides of the middle of the torso draw circles, in which to represent paws with clawed fingers.
- Then from the long arcs to form a row of feathers. Complement the rows of feathers until the full wings are formed. After all these steps, the drawing of the eagle will be completed. It remains only to paint it.
- Set aside a simple pencil and place the paint, brush and container close to you. Pour water into the container. Draw brown paint onto a brush and trace the outline and all details of the sketch. Rinse brush and take light brown paint, and cover the entire body of the bird. Dark brown, paint the head and the contours of the plumage of the body. Yellow to give some areas of the legs and beak.
If you have difficulty with the image of the wings, you can see master classes on drawing an owl, its wings are identical to those of an eagle. The main thing is to show your child different examples more often, and it will be easier for him to understand the sequence of actions and the correctness of the lines.
Head of an eagle
How to correctly draw the shape of an eagle should be clear from the above instructions, now you can try to depict the head of this bird close-up. The drawing will be done with a simple pencil, without further coloring, but with the use of shading.
The work process is as follows:
- Arrange the album sheet horizontally. To the left of the center of the sheet draw a large hooked beak. From the curve of the beak to draw a line in the right direction, a little further down the middle of the sheet. From the top of the beak to complete the arc, forming the top of the head.
- Uneven horizontal line to divide the beak into two parts. In the intended place for the eye to draw a sharp eye of the eagle. It has the shape of an oval. Outline the eyebrow.
- Wavy line separates the beak from the nasal part of the head, next to portray a nostril on the nose.
- Make the eye more expressive. With a very dark stroke, fill in the area near the eye and the pupil.
- Detail the beak. Shade the nostril hole.
- Light hatch to make a beak and rasterize it. Make the head darker, but with a rare "gray area.
Having mastered these lessons, a child can easily and happily draw a character from Bravo Stars.