How to Draw a Bird

Learn how to draw a Bird with this easy step by step tutorial. A chubby little body and big eyes makes him extra fun to draw.

How to Draw a Bird
Bird Drawing

This step by step bird tutorial is simple but stays true to the natural form. Whether it be a Blue Jay, a Cardinal or a Finch, the body and wing shape here can be applied to all types of species.

This drawing tutorial could be a good choice of study for actual birds. It could be a fun challenge to go bird watching with friends and family then attempt to recreate what types of birds you saw!

Preview of the step by step Bird tutorial

How to Draw a Bird

RECOMMENDED MATERIALS

  • Pencil. The Ticonderoga brand are the most reliable, make nice dark lines when you need them, and are the easiest to erase. Buying the pre-sharpened ones will save busy teachers a lot of time.
  • Eraser. Large ones you can hold in your hand do a much better job than just the pencil tip erasers, especially when erasing leftover pencil lines after tracing.
  • Black Sharpie Marker. These fine point permanent marker pens make nice black outlines, have a good tip for coloring, and never bleed when they get wet. Use them with good ventilation and add extra paper underneath to protect your tables.
  • Prang Crayons. These are a bit softer than other crayons so they sometimes look like oil pastels. They also have a some nice brown shades that Crayola does not have unless you buy their larger boxes.
  • Crayola Crayons. The reliable brand that always works well. The 24 pack has some of my favorite golden orange and yellow colors that seem a bit richer and warmer than the ones Prang has.

DIRECTIONS

Time needed:45 minutes.

How to Draw a Bird

  1. Start the body with a round shape.

  2. Attach a head with a point.

  3. Erase line and add large eye and beak.

  4. Draw a wing.

  5. Erase line and add tail.

  6. Add lots of feather details.

  7. Draw a branch underneath.

  8. Add leaves on the branch, clouds in the sky.

  9. Trace with marker and color.