Drawing Together Episode 28: Winging It

Drawing Together Episode 28: Winging It

this episode is Part of the Drawing Together live video series – learn more here

I’ll be taking Memorial Day off, so in place of the live session, I’ve recorded this demo of a bird drawing. I hope you enjoy it! Follow along using this reference photo: https://bit.ly/3dRHZOT

Today, I’m working with:

Strathmore Drawing Paper
Ebony Pencil
Carbon Pencil
Kneaded and Rubber Erasers

In this session, we’ll cover:

Drawing a Bird
Drawing Feathers
Realistic drawing techniques for pencil
Shading Techniques
Managing detail

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KAREN January 4, 2021

Looking forward to this week’s bird!

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Irene Martinelli June 29, 2020

It took a while but I finally got around to doing this bird

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heathyrrekautz June 3, 2020

It was really different not drawing an outline of the bird to start but “building it from inside out”! I used charcoal instead.

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Jaci Muzamel May 27, 2020

This guy was pretty interesting to draw…. I had two other artists online with me at the same time!

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