How to draw a sparrow
Easy
If this is your first bird, start with the sparrow. A round body, a small head, a short beak. In five steps you will have a sparrow that flaps its wings.
The dashed line is the wing line in the DrawBird canvas: everything above it flaps, everything below it stays as the body.
Step by step
1. Body
Draw a horizontal egg right below the dashed line in the middle of the canvas. If the body stays below the line, it holds still while the bird flies.
2. Head
Add a circle at the upper right of the body, overlapping it a little. A sparrow has almost no neck, so the head sits right on the body.
3. Beak and eye
Put a small, thick triangle of a beak on the right of the head. Sparrows crack seeds, so the beak is short and stout. Draw the eye as a dot close to the beak.
4. Wing and tail
Now the most important part. ABOVE the dashed line, draw a leaf-shaped wing going up from the middle of the body. This is the part that opens and closes in the sky. Add a short tail with a square tip on the left of the body.
5. Color and details
The male sparrow has a black bib and gray cheeks. Add a small black patch on the throat and two light lines on the wing. Set the pen to 6 or thicker, because birds look smaller in the sky.
Done!
Sparrow is ready. Now draw it in DrawBird, give it a name and let it loose in the sky.
Common mistakes
- Drawing the wing inside the body. A wing that stays below the dashed line will not flap.
- Making the head too big. A sparrow's head is less than half the size of its body.
- Drawing with a thin pen. Thin lines disappear in the sky.
What you should know about Sparrow
- The house sparrow is 14–16 cm long and lives wherever people live.
- The male has a gray crown and a black bib. The female is brown all over.
- They take dust baths. They lie in dry soil and flap, which rids their feathers of parasites.
- They mostly eat seeds themselves, but they bring insects to their chicks.
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