How to Draw a Bird on a Tree Branch

Welcome back everyone to my first drawing video in 2013! This is something a bit different but something I have wanted to try for a while now. Drawing a bird sure did prove to be a challenge but I really did enjoy doing it! Thank you all for joining me on this one!

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This drawing mainly started out with just trying to get the overall shape for the bird correct. That took me quite a bit of time considering that I am not really used to drawing birds. I had to draw a series of lines for a rough shape and then just erased the lines that were no longer needed and was left with a pretty close representation of what the bird actually looked like.

To get myself started with the bird, I used a 2H pencil and just made a general shading all over the bird just to get the tone down. It was difficult to see how the bird was going to turn out so just getting that tone down helped.

After which, I started to work on the details of the wing. This is probably the most detailed part of the bird. I had to draw a lot of straight lines which I still can't do very well at all. So I had to break out one of my french curves to help me with the line work of this one just so that it would look better in the end.

The wing and other darker parts of thebird were mainly done with a B pencil. I didn't go to dark for these areas at all.


After the bird was finished up it just came down to drawing the tree branch. These branches I think were birch branches which are easy for me to draw because of the details that they have. They tend to have very dark nots and other such details as well as dark lines going around the branch. So using a B pencil for those details then using a 2H and 4H for the overall shading, it came out pretty well.

The snow was a challenge. I had to figure out how to make it pop without shading the tops of the snow in. I ended up using a 4H pencil to shade around the tops of the snow to make them pop more. So in the end it worked out really well.

In the end this drawing was very foreign for me to try and do but I am very happy to have tried it. It came out really well and really surprised myself. Every once in a while you get one of those and it just makes drawing really fun.

I hope you all enjoyed this one and I will see you all later!

Music Info
Song: Momentums
Artist: Chuck Berglund

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