How to Draw a Penguin
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Lay in the body mass first, in one motion.
The body should be one smooth closed shape.
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A penguin is a bird drawn as a bowling pin: one upright mass, flippers instead of wings, and the whole drawing carried by a single interior line - the boundary between the dark back and the white front. Get that bib line right and everything else is forgiving.
Every bird here starts the same way: one egg for the body, a small circle for the head, and a beak that grows out of the skull rather than sitting on it.
Pas per pas
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Pas 1
Lay in the body mass first, in one motion.
Nearly every bird is one egg-shaped mass with everything else attached to it. Draw the egg in one motion and let its tilt say what the bird is doing.
Vigila amb Building the body from several small arcs.
Comprova The body should be one smooth closed shape.
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Pas 2
Add a small circle for the head.
Bird heads are smaller relative to the body than beginners expect - usually about a quarter of the body length. Measure against the egg before you commit.
Vigila amb An oversized head, which turns the bird into a cartoon.
Comprova About four head-widths should fit along the body.
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Pas 3
Draw the neck on both sides.
Even a short-necked bird has a neck: two curves joining head to body, front and back. Without them the head floats and the bird reads as a snowman.
Vigila amb Leaving the head disconnected from the body.
Comprova Both neck curves should touch head and body.
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Pas 4
Draw the bill.
The beak grows out of the skull rather than sitting on its surface, and its angle continues the line of the head. Shape and size are the strongest species cues on the whole bird.
Vigila amb Sticking the beak flat onto the front of the circle.
Comprova The top edge of the beak should line up with the skull.
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Pas 5
Put the eye in, high and forward.
A bird's eye sits high and close to the beak. Small, dark, with one highlight - and its position matters far more than its rendering.
Vigila amb Placing the eye centrally, which deadens the whole face.
Comprova The eye should be nearer the beak than the back of the head.
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Pas 6
Lay the wing over the body.
The folded wing lies ON the body, crossing its outline. That overlap is what attaches it - a wing drawn inside the body outline reads as a pattern, not a limb.
Vigila amb Drawing the wing floating inside the silhouette.
Comprova The wing should cross the body outline somewhere.
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Pas 7
Suggest the feather layers.
Feathers come in groups, and the groups are what you draw - two or three curved rows, not individual feathers. The eye supplies the rest reliably.
Vigila amb Drawing every feather, which turns the wing into a fence.
Comprova You should count feather GROUPS, not feathers.
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Pas 8
Draw the legs, set well back under the body.
Legs attach much further back than they appear to, because the visible leg is really the bird's foot and ankle. Get the attachment point right and the balance follows.
Vigila amb Legs planted centrally, which makes the bird tip forward.
Comprova The legs should attach behind the middle of the egg.
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Pas 9
Put the tail feathers on.
The tail continues the body's line rather than being stuck on the end. Draw it as one shape - separate feathers come last if at all.
Vigila amb A tail at war with the angle of the body.
Comprova The tail's top edge should flow from the back line.
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Pas 10
Draw the underside of the penguin.
The breast is the fullest curve on the bird and it carries the pose. Round it generously - a flat chest makes any bird look deflated.
Vigila amb A flat front, which loses the bird's volume.
Comprova The chest should be the roundest curve on the drawing.
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Pas 11
Draw the pattern this bird actually has.
Markings follow the body's form - they curve as the body curves. Flat pattern drawn over a round form cancels all the volume you just built.
Vigila amb Drawing the pattern flat, ignoring the curve underneath.
Comprova Any stripe or patch should bend with the body.
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Pas 12
Put a handful of feather ticks on the chest.
Three or four short V-marks down the breast, each curving with the chest rather than sitting flat, and the whole bird reads as feathered. They also confirm the body's roundness - marks on a form must bend with it, which is the same rule as every stripe and patch on the site.
Vigila amb Covering the breast evenly, which turns the bird into a pinecone.
Comprova The marks should bend the same way as the chest outline.
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Pas 13
Draw the ground line and the shadow beneath the penguin.
One line under the feet and one flattened shadow arc beneath the body, darkest between the legs. A bird with no ground floats in white space no matter how well it is built - and the shadow also confirms where the legs actually are, which birds hide well.
Vigila amb Skipping it and leaving the bird hovering.
Comprova The shadow should sit directly below the body's widest point.
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Pas 14
Press harder on the final lines and erase the blocking-in.
Weight the silhouette and the beak, keep the feather marks light, erase the construction. The contrast in line weight is what separates finished from traced.
Vigila amb Uniform line weight over the whole bird.
Comprova Silhouette darker than interior - check by squinting.
El que sembla acabar
El mateix dibuix amb cada guia esborrat i només les línies que volies mantenir, amb el pes que els has volgut ser. Si la vostra encara té línies de centre i blocs en formes d' ella, aquest és el pas que no heu fet encara - i porta uns trenta segons.
El teu no tindrà aquesta pinta, i se suposa que no és la construcció amb la bastida agafada, no un dibuix fet per a ser admirat, el punt és mostrar-vos quines de les vostres línies eren guies.
El que aquest t'ensenya de veritat
What transfers is the egg-and-head build plus the discipline of drawing feather groups instead of feathers - the same restraint that draws hair, grass and fur.
The penguin is the site's simplest lesson in counterchange - a dark shape against light and light against dark along one boundary. That interior edge does more than the outline does, which is a preview of how value actually works.
Practiteu-les: Line confidence Proportion Value range
El que necessites.
A pencil and any paper, or a finger on the canvas above - nothing here needs special equipment. Keep the construction light if you are on paper, because the guides come off at the end.
Si no va malament
If it looks like an owl, the beak is wrong - a penguin's is long, thin and pointed, set low on the head, nothing like a hooked triangle.
If it looks fat rather than streamlined, the widest point is too high. A penguin bulges below the middle - it is a bowling pin, not an egg on end.
If the bib is not working, its edges are too straight. The white front is bounded by two long curves that start at the face and widen down the body.
Imprimeix els passos
Treu- lo de la pantalla. Les empremtes dels fulls d' increment d' una pàgina.
Preguntes a la gent pregunta
- How do I draw a penguin's markings?
- One line each side, from the face down to the feet, widening as it goes - the boundary between dark back and white front. That bib line IS the penguin.
- Why does my penguin look like an egg?
- The widest point is too high. A penguin bulges below the middle, like a bowling pin - move the width down and the posture appears.
- How do I draw penguin flippers?
- As flat tapering paddles held slightly away from the body, with no feather detail at all. Feathered wings are the fastest way to break the drawing.
- How do I start drawing a penguin?
- With the body egg, always - never the head. The egg sets the size and tilt of everything, and a head drawn first ends up with a body that does not fit it.
- Where do the legs go on a penguin?
- Further back than they look - behind the middle of the body egg. What reads as the leg is mostly the foot, and the real joint is up inside the feathers.
- How do I draw the feathers on a penguin?
- As groups, never individually. Two or three curved rows on the wing are enough for the eye to fill in hundreds.
- Can a beginner draw a penguin?
- Yes. The construction is an egg and a circle, and the species detail arrives late enough that a rough version still reads.
- What size should the head be on a penguin?
- Smaller than instinct says - roughly a quarter of the body length. Oversized heads are what make drawn birds look like toys.