How To Draw An Owl Youtube

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Halloween draws almost, and if there's whatsoever bird that symbolizes the Halloween spirit, it's the watchful owl, who sits at his perch high overhead as the undead, headless horsemen, witches, and hobgoblins make their nighttime rounds from house to house in search of sugary treasures. Besides its chilling ties to Halloween, the owl is traditionally known as a wise creature, and was one of the symbols of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. All-time of all, drawing an owl is piece of cake and fun!

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Sketch the owl. Lightly describe a pocket-size oval for the head. Continue with a mango-shaped oval for the body. Next, describe vertical and horizontal lines inside the head oval, into 4 sections. Proceed with the anxiety, drawing two small round shapes. Draw the shape for the wing, and add a tree branch where the owl is standing. For the tail, make a slightly curved line backside the co-operative.
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Sketch the details of the owl'south head. Draw the mentum, beak, eyes, and ears. Continue with curved lines to shape the owl's body.

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Add more details to the owl's head. Sketch short jagged lines for texture along the outline of the owl'southward body as "guiding lines", and draw 2 talons for each foot.
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Depict feather texture. Draw additional short lines all over the owl's trunk, post-obit the guiding lines. Add the texture by quickly stroking the pencil downwards, repeatedly.
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Continue with curt strokes that follow the guiding lines and shape of the body. Add low-cal strokes over the areas of the owl that would likely be shaded.
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Stop the cartoon with important final touches.
- Shade the pupils solid dark, while lightly shading the iris.
- Draw additional tiny strokes around the eyes to enhance the feathers effectually it. Continue this motion for the entire body.
- Erase the guiding lines.
- Add some details to the tree branch.
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Draw a large oval. It doesn't have to be perfect, just try to make it about twice equally alpine as it is broad. Draw a circle on top for the caput, followed past vertical and horizontal lines inside the circle. making iv sections.
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Sketch the details of the owl's head. Draw the chin, pecker, eyes, and ears.
- Have fun with the eyes, if you desire—you can make a serious owl, with in the middle direct ahead; an owl looking at something, by cartoon the pupils pointed left or right; or a goofy, cross-eyed owl.
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Add "guiding lines" for the body, feet, and wings. Guiding lines create the bones shape of the drawing.
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Trace over the owl sketch with a darker brush to make the outline more nifty and visible.
- Omit or add more details to the cartoon as you go, for case a tree branch the owl is standing on.
- Experiment with backgrounds using a dissimilar layer.
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Make few short lines using a smaller castor to create a feather texture.
- Add optional lines for details to the tree co-operative or other background.
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Select the colors you want for the owl. Color in the owl on another layer of the drawing.
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Add shades and highlights to add depth to the drawing.
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Terminate the drawing by adding colors or other figures to the background.

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How do I describe a chicken?

There is an article for that. But type: How to Draw a Chicken.
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How tin I improve my owl drawing?

Just proceed practicing, and you will get amend.
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How can I make information technology more like a snowy owl?

Brand the owl as information technology is illustrated in part 2, merely get out the face without whatever detail, except for the eyes and small pecker. Also, practice non add together the ears to the owl, as snowy owl ears are less pronounced.
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How tin can I amend my shading to make things expect more realistic?
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What type of owl is this?

Izabella Steele

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I would say information technology is a swell horned owl; they are ordinarily brown with horns on their heads.
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How practice I make the owl more of a cartoon?

Endeavor to make the eyes wider and the ears a bit smaller. Y'all could also brand the beak smaller and use less detail.
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How do you lot change the first owl into a color sketch?

Patriotictumbleweed

Community Answer

Instead of gray, use color. This should piece of work the same manner as it would with just a standard pencil.

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Add together lines for more details and add different shades of the colour for affect.
Utilise colored pencils for more than particular.
Putting a branch under information technology makes it look better.
Smaller owls crave less detail, whereas large owls need a lot of feathers.
Put horn-rimmed spectacles on the owl to make it look wiser.

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Things You'll Need

Pencil
Paper
Template shapes if necessary
Colored pencils, crayons, etc
Pencil Sharpener
Eraser

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"To depict an owl, beginning past lightly sketching a pocket-size oval for the head and a larger oval for the body. Side by side, draw two modest, round shapes for the feet, the wing shape, a tree branch for the owl to stand on, and a slightly curved line behind the branch for the tail. Add details to the owl'south head, like the eyes and neb. Then, create curved lines and feather texture for the body. Lastly, add shading and color to bring your drawing to life! " For tips on drawing an owl digitally, read on!

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