How to draw a stork: step by step instruction for beginners

According to legend, God once collected all the reptiles in one sack and told the man, without opening it, to throw into the sea. He could not resist and untied the bag to look inside. He froze with fear and amazement, and the bastards, meanwhile, crawled on the ground. God turned a curious man into a stork and ordered him to free the earth from creeping creatures from now on. This bird, indeed, feeds on snakes, lizards, worms and frogs and is rightly considered a symbol of good and harmony. And the very image of the majestic graceful bird personifies infinite nobility. There is a tradition that where a stork destroys a nest, people will surely find happiness.

How to draw a stork, which is associated with so many positive characters and legends? Let's try to do it.

Admiring him

Not many townspeople saw a stork alive, so first of all, it's worth considering how it looks, using photos, movies. We will see that this is a fairly large bird on high legs, with a long neck and a large beak. Reflecting on how to draw a stork, remember that the white plumage of the bird has a black shiny shade at the ends. The length of the deployed wing of the stork reaches sixty centimeters. This is also essential information in order to determine the proportions of the drawn figure. The color of the legs and beak of this bird is red, it is important to take into account that if before drawing a stork with a pencil, we will plan to paint the drawing with paints.

Flying stork: the basis of the sketch

We begin the drawing with the main contours of the body. In the center of the sheet, we draw an elongated oval, a little to the left of the image of a small oval - the future head of our feathered friend. We will connect the two ovals with two parallel lines, so we will designate the long neck of the bird. Let's measure by eye how the length of the neck and head will be related to the length of the legs of the figure being depicted, before drawing a stork. Step by step on the other side of the oval of the trunk, we will first trace the inclined line of the bird's legs. Above them, at the end of the oval, we will depict a wedge-shaped blunt tail. After this, we will follow the head: to the small oval in front we will draw a beak in the form of an elongated wedge.

It is not difficult to understand how to draw a stork in flight - from the middle of a large oval we draw a smoothly curved line to the right, this is the base of the wing. The second wing is located on the other side of the trunk, therefore, stepping slightly to the left, we draw up a line with a bend. The sketch base is ready.

Concretize the sketch

Now we need to detail the contours. Before you draw a stork in the volume, let's draw another inclined line at the level of the figure's foot line with a bend up at the end. Now we draw the wings, adding additional lines to the outlined contours. We will connect a head with a neck, and a neck with a body by one confident line. To bend the neck seemed natural and elegant, the lower line on the neck slightly bend. The eraser removes the original geometric sketch and will continue to detail the picture.

Select the bird's head with a small vertical dash on the neck. Draw the eyeball. Now we will take up the wings. On each of them we draw feathers. At the ends of the wings, they will be large, and closer to the body smaller, at the base they can be represented by vertical strips on the wing. The inner part of the wing open towards the viewer will be divided into an outer area and one that lies closer to the body. Mirror the details of the second wing of the bird. We add a beak with a horizontal longitudinal line. Let's make a small stroke on the belly of the bird, right under the left wing.

Finish the sketch

The next step in the drawing will be the coloring of the stork. If we only work with a pencil, we will focus on the shadows and black details of the plumage of the bird. We lightly shade the head of the figure, let's leave the neck white, then just as easily stroke the pencil body, leaving a small highlight in the back of the tail. The tail, the upper part of the foot and a small area under the belly are densely shaded, achieving the darkest shade. For black parts of the figure, you can use a black pencil. Select the black tips of the legs, as well as the feathers at both ends of the bird's wings. For greater realism, we paint on them a slight glare that gives shine and silkiness. We'll work on the second wing - slightly shading its outer edge, we hardly notice the area that precedes the feathers on the ends of the wing.

Where the stork is flying

We examined how to draw a stork with a pencil, step by step. But if creative aspirations draw us further, we can take advantage of the colors or at least place our bird in some marvelous landscape. The stork can fly in the blue sky, against the background of bright green trees and hills visible in the distance. And maybe he flies to the nest on the roof of the house?