Bald Eagle Drawings (Part 1)

 

Bald Eagle Drawings - Welcome to this new tutorial by the Drawing Factory where you will learn how to draw a bald eagle.

 

 

 

The Bald Eagle is a bird of prey found in North America. It is the national bird and symbol of the United States of America.

 

Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico. It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting.

 

The Bald Eagle is a large bird, with a wingspan of up to 2.44 m (96 in), and a mass of 2.5–7 kilograms; females are about 25 percent larger than males. The adult Bald Eagle has a brown body with a white head and tail, bright yellow irises, and golden taloned feet and hooked beak.

 

Now that you know a little bit more about this amazing bird let's get to draw it.

 

Bald Eagle Drawings - Let's get started!

 

The first thing to do is to establish the main lines and shape that will guide as through the drawing. In this case I have drawn three simple shapes that will form the head (red), the beak and the neck of the eagle (green).

 

 

Once these main shapes are established let's get into them and try to define a line that will mar the position of the eyes and another line marking the mouth line. I have drawn both lines in green and I have tryed to follow the volume of the shapes.

 

So for example the eye-line is curved as it is supposed to follow the curvature of the head. Same thing for the beak.

 

Bald Eagle Drawings

 

Bald Eagle Drawings - Next step

 

Ok now we have a pretty solid structure for our drawing. What I have done in this step is simply to wrap the seleton lines within an outline that give us a reference for where the actual body of the eagle is. I have also drawn a simple circle for the eye and marked in black the beak line.

 

Let's move on.

 

Bald Eagle Drawings

 

In the next part we will learn how to add more detail to the drawing and how to refine the single elements.

 

 

Go to Part 2 >>

 

 

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