| how to draw a | macaw |
Steps: 17
Difficulty:
These brightly colored parrots are found in the forests of Central and South America. Their agile feet can grasp hard-shelled nuts and seeds that the bird eats by cracking them apart with its extremely strong beak. |
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1 Sketch the broken outline of the forehead and the base of the macaw’s beak. Draw the eye. |
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2 Complete the main shape of the upper beak. |
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3 Add the outline of the lower beak. |
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4 Sketch the macaw’s neck and upper chest. |
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5 Draw the top of the macaw’s head, upper back, and wing with a broken outline and curves. |
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6 Shade the beak, nostril, eye, and the dark patch of feathers beneath the beak. |
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7 Shade the long area at the top of the head. |
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8 Shade the macaw’s chest, neck, wing, and back with light and medium- |
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9 Shade a light tone on the cheek and around the eye and nostril. |
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10 Shade the macaw’s upper and lower beak. |
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11 Shade the eye’s pupil, the center of the nostril, and the small feathers near the eye. |
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12 Sketch U-shaped feathers in the dark patch below the beak. |
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13 Draw feather texture on the head with short lines that follow the curve of the outside edge. |
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14 Draw horizontal curves on the back and U shapes in rows on the wing, and shade these areas. |
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15 Sketch slightly wavy lines that angle up across the cheek to the beak. |
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16 Darken the lower parts and right edges of the beak as well as the eye and nostril. Shade the beak interior. |
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Fun Fact
The macaw’s tongue has a bone inside it that helps the bird break apart its food.
17 Erase highlights by lightly dragging or tapping a kneaded eraser across the top of the beak; around the nostril; along the tops of the head, back, and wing; and along the tops of the dark lines on the cheek. |
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