Birds

Hey guys! It’s Sean, an artist instructor with Da Vinci Eye. Today, we’re going to be learning how to draw a toucan.

I’ll be drawing this on my tablet for you to easily see, but feel free to use a pencil and paper. You can also follow along with the tutorial step-by-step using Da Vinci Eye for iOS and Android. The app lets you trace along with my drawing to help become more comfortable and understand exactly what I do.

So let’s get started.

Remember with every drawing to start out light. So using little pressure with a pencil, draw three circles – the head, the body, and the eye.

Now we connect everything…

And add a Y looking line to indicate the wings, since we’re looking at the back of the toucan.

After that, I’m going to go in and add some more lines for the tail feathers.

As you can see, these don’t have to be perfect.

And now we add the main event – the long beak.

I decided to give my toucan a little berry to hold onto, but you could also just have the beak closed.

Last but not least, your toucan need some environment. So let’s put it in a tree branch with a little bit of texture.

After this, I just go in for some cleanup. So I make lines darker and add some feather and beak details.

And as always remember to sign your art because you did it and you should be proud of yourself!

Now, of course, toucans are very colorful, so don’t hesitate to do some quick color and shading.

If you want to find more of my art, follow me on Instagram at @Phoenix.Animations. Be sure to check out the Da Vinci Eye app, as well as subscribe here for more tutorials.

You can also check out our video on how to draw a toucan right here:

Have a great day, and we’ll see you next time!

Hey guys! My name is Sean and I’m an artist-instructor with Da Vinci Eye. Today, we’re going to learn how to draw a turkey!

I’ll be drawing this on my tablet for you to easily see, but feel free to use a pencil and paper. You can also follow along with this tutorial step-by-step using Da Vinci Eye App for iOS and Android. The app lets you trace along with my drawing to help become more comfortable and understand exactly what I do.

Let’s start this drawing out with three circles to help us shape out the body, the tail feathers and the smaller circle head.

Now we connect the head with the body and also sketch out the giant wing.

Our Turkey is looking fantastic! So let’s take these basic shapes and give them more form.

I’m going to work on the tail feathers here. Notice that I start from the bottom and move them out like sun rays. We want them to follow the curve of the turkey’s body…

Lets add a rounded face and let’s not  forget the waddle… (That’s that red thing that hangs off its face)

We can start giving our turkey some personality and life. I’m also going to go ahead and put in some environment with a shadow underneath.

To ground it a bit more, you’ll see that I’m adding in some fall pumpkins to decorate the space. Feel free to put in some leaves or even another Turkey as a friend!

Lastly, is shading and detail. I’ve added some feather patterning, and cross hatched a lot of shading.

Because the Turkey is covered in feathers, the sketch-like effect really helps build texture rather than smoothing out everything.

And as always, don’t forget to sign your art! You did an awesome job. 🙂

If you want to find more of my artwork, follow me on Instagram at @Phoenix.Animations. Be sure to check out the Da Vinci Eye app, as well as subscribe here for more tutorials.

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You can also watch the tutorial on how to draw a turkey below. Have a great day, and we’ll see you next time!

Hey guys! It’s Sean – I’m an artist-instructor with Da Vinci Eye. Today we’re going to learn how to draw an owl perched on a tree branch.

I’ll be drawing this on my tablet for you to easily see, but feel free to use a pencil and paper. You can also follow along with this tutorial step-by-step using Da Vinci Eye App for iOS and Android. The app lets you trace along with my drawing to help become more comfortable and understand exactly what I do.

So let’s do this! Remember to start out light. So using little pressure with a pencil, draw two circles for the face:

And a curved rectangle for the body:

Now I’m going to jump right in and start shaping the face out.

I add a carrot looking shape right in the middle for the beak and two wide eyes.

Remember the owl’s eyes don’t actually move. So make sure the pupils are always in the middle.

Now I’m going in and adding details for feathers:

Then texturing around the eyes:

As well as two short tufts for the ears:

Moving to the body, we need to give our owl a big wing.

I always like to pattern my wings, so go ahead and add your own feather coloration.

I decided for the chest of my owl to be a much whiter color and indicated this by only lightly penciling in feathers in a downward direction.

The talons are added to curve around our tree branch, but you can also stick them under your owl.

Lastly, I’m going in to add detail to the branch and give the owl some tail feathers in the back.

Don’t forget to sign your art! You did a great job.

If you want to find more of my artwork, follow me on Instagram at @Phoenix.Animations. Be sure to check out the Da Vinci Eye app, as well as subscribe here for more tutorials.

You can also watch the tutorial on how to draw an owl right here:

 

Have a great day, and we’ll see you next time.