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Drawing Birds for Beginners: Step by Step Guide to Drawing Birds
By John Davidson and Adrian Sanqui
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Drawing Birds for Beginners
Step by Step Guide to Drawing Birds
Table of Contents
Drawing tools
Warming up
Drawing Birds with Pencil
Kiwi
Penguin
Parts of a bird's Wing layers
Drawing with Ink (pen)
Hornbill
Peacock
Owl
Coloring with Color Pencils
Vulture
Lammergeyer/ Bearded Vulture
Cassowary
Kingfisher
Coloring with Watercolors
Blue-Winged Kookaburra
Cassowary in watercolor
Author Bio
Author
John Davidson
My coauthor John Davidson was a high school teacher for 25 years and volunteered for the Vancouver Crisis Centre. He recently passed away on November 7, 2021.
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Drawing Birds for Beginners - John Davidson
Drawing Birds for Beginners
Step by Step Guide to Drawing Birds
Adrian Sanqui
And
John Davidson
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Learn How to Draw Books for the Absolute Beginner
Table of Contents
Drawing tools
Warming up
Drawing Birds with Pencil
Kiwi
Penguin
Parts of a bird's Wing layers
Drawing with Ink (pen)
Hornbill
Peacock
Owl
Coloring with Color Pencils
Vulture
Lammergeyer/ Bearded Vulture
Cassowary
Kingfisher
Coloring with Watercolors
Blue-Winged Kookaburra
Cassowary
Author Bio
Drawing tools
Pencils
The most important tool you need to be able to enhance your drawing skill is a medium that can be corrected in case you make sloppy line strokes. It is better if you have pencils of different grades so you can have the kind of lightness or darkness you want to make. The ‘H’ engraved near on the pencil’s tip (side of eraser) stand for hardness
, it ranges from 2H to 9H. A pencil with only an H
mark and doesn’t have a number means 1H, the most common grade of a pencil (pencils without grade marks) is usually a 2H pencil. The B
marking on the pencil stands for "blackness, this means the pencil produces a darker marking and is softer
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