How To Draw A Cardinal

hey our friends we're going to draw another cool bird today right chuggers yeah which one are we drawing a cardinal cool all right chuggers you got your marker all right we hope you guys are going to follow along with us you have a marker something to draw with you guys can use they can use a pencil if they don't want to use a marker right but why do we use a marker so we can't erase yes we don't like erasing we like drawing yes we do all right ready to start okay first step we're going to start with our paper vertical because we're going to draw we're going to draw the bird this way but we're also going to draw some branches in there okay so first step that we've done with all of our birds is we start with the eye and we're going to be uh far to the right okay but kind of towards the middle of the paper this way we're going to draw a little circle like that and we've also always put a little light reflection a little light reflecting off of his eye by drawing a little circle and then coloring in the rest of his eye okay now the cool part about cardinals is they have a different beak different shape beak than all of the other birds that we've done so we're going to draw a v but it's going to be a lot bigger than all of the other ones we've done and it's going to be sideways good okay and then we're going to draw a curved line that comes down for the top part and then we're going to draw a straight line coming back for the bottom of his beak good you did it okay and then we'll connect the the peak of the v to the front of his beak there we go we got his mouth in there that's a lot different shape huh it's a lot thicker okay you ready for the rest of them yeah okay let's draw the top of his head and cardinals have messy hair kind of like you in the morning yeah and sometimes awesome yes crazy hair two horns one time like a devil boy yeah we have to put about a gallon of water on top of your head each morning don't we it's like a calic yeah it's a cowlick all right dude let's keep going let's try the messy part of his hair next okay so we'll draw a little zigzag line that kind of comes back down and we're gonna stop kind of above his above his eye good job okay now let's draw his his back next okay so we're going to draw a little line that comes down to finish the back of his head good now we're going to draw another line that comes down and this is going to be for his wing good and then we're going to come back for the bottom of his wing so we kind of want we want to make his wing look pretty thick so we're going to curve down and then this is for his little shoulder like that good job okay now let's do some of the details on his wing so we're going to do like we've done on some of our other birds we do a little zigzag line or curved or connected u's good i like it yeah lots of w's then we're gonna make the longer feathers so we'll connect lines that come out here good job dude i like it okay now we're gonna draw his belly so we're going to come off here we can come a little line that comes back in for his head and then that's kind of his neck right there then we're going to curve down for his belly come down and back up into his tail or his wings sorry it's a baby yes it's a baby one it's a cute one i like it dude okay now let's do the design on his face and they have this little black mask on their face so draw a line that connects from his forehead and then it comes around his eye curves down and into his belly and we're gonna we're not gonna color that in um until later good job i like it okay now let's do his tail we're going to draw a line that curves into his back and then another line right next to it curving into his tail good job and then we'll connect the end of the those two lines with a little curved line like that and then we can also do let's do some more lines here for the details of his feathers good that looks awesome okay now let's do the branch that he's standing on we'll do a little wave kind of wavy line it doesn't have to be too wavy but we'll just come up from the left side of the paper and then a little higher on the right side and then we'll do another line right next to that one that that matches it good job and then we could also we could go crazy with the with this branch we could do some more kind of branches that come off of it and go off the paper i'll do another one down here and i'm going to do some that come out this way too nice job dude it looks awesome he looks like he's sitting in a tree doesn't he yeah yeah okay now let's draw his legs so we're gonna do two lines one that comes down over here and this one i'm gonna bend so i'm gonna put a little bend in it like that good and then this one i'm gonna draw just kind of straight down to the branch good okay and then we can yeah long legs then we can put uh these little talons and just put thick lines that look like they're grabbing the branch two of them yeah that's okay you could do three too i like it dude i just checked and they do have three three toes on the front so you were right i was wrong glad we checked all right dude let's add some leaves though to our branches okay so just so we can color uh some green in here it's gonna look really cool if we have some leaves so we'll put some leaf shapes and you can put these anywhere you don't have to put them where i put them draw kind of a football shape and then a line in the middle good job dude okay you ready to color them yeah all right let's pick out our colors we got a light brown we also got this kind of a darker brown which is called uh dark carmen and we're using a red orange black we have two greens a light green and a dark green we're using pentel oil pastels we use them all the time because we like them so much they blend really well and they're a pretty good price and we'll leave a link to amazon where art friends can purchase them at home okay okay all right the first step we're gonna do is we're gonna color our bird red his whole body is red we're we're gonna do some shading after but we want to fill them in right now okay let's do it chuggers nice job man okay next step was we're going to get our dark brown and we're going to add some shading to our cardinal's body so right under here whereas his wing is we can do a little drop cast shadow underneath his wing and then we can also add some shading under his belly so it looks like the light is coming from the top and shining down on the top of the bird and then that way there would be a shadow underneath him right okay so we can just kind of blend his belly in and then i'm also going to add some shading on his tail just close to his body like that and then i'm also going to add a little bit of shading just where we did the connected use or the w's on his wing good job okay now let's take our black and we'll fill in his mask next let's get our orange and we're going to do a light layer on top of his beak but we don't want to fill it in completely leave a little white on the top of his beak so it looks like there's some light shining on it and then we're going to take our red and go back over that so it doesn't look as orange it looks more red all right kate now let's do his bran the branches he's sitting on we're going to use the light brown and we'll just color in the whole thing but we can leave a little light uh on the top of the branch so it looks like there's some light catching the top so it's shaded and there's a highlight up there okay next we're going to do the leaves we're going to use the light green and the dark green and you can just fill in one of the leaves completely with the light green and then use the dark green to add some shading chunkers good job dude i love how your kernel turned out he's super awesome he looks 3d with the shading and i really like the contrast of the red with the green looks really cool yeah did you have fun yeah yeah we hope you guys had a lot of fun drawing your cardinal with us be sure to check out some of our other bird videos we really like doing birds don't we yes we do we'll see you later our friends goodbye

Channel: Art for Kids Hub

Views: 839,558

Keywords: art for kids, Art projects, Art Ideas, Art Tips, how to draw, bird, cardinal

Id: MpP99iXYhIA

Length: 11min 24sec (684 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 12 2015