Draw On This—Day Five: More Animal Shapes

Returning to our success with drawing animals, today we are working on more animal drawings. We will build upon what we have learned about line, shape and perspective and see if we can draw something today that has a bit more detail. Today we will draw a parrot!

Before starting, we looked at a photo of a parrot and tried to find as many shapes as we could. This was great fun as the students took turns in showing what shapes they could find… triangles of a beak, a circle for an eye, an ellipse for a feather.

With our shapes in mind, together we used those simple shapes to “block in” our parrots. Using curved and angled lines, circles and ovals, we added detail to our parrots. See the lovely results!—