How To Draw An American Robin

How to Sketch a Robin Footstep-by-Step Tutorial

How to Sketch a Robin

Although many folks think sketching birds is difficult, a adept way to start is past practicing with a photograph, before you attempt sketching living birds outdoors.Since the American Robin is 1 of the nearly familiar and widespread birds in Northward America, permit's start past practicing drawing this beloved bird of parks and gardens.

I have complete confidence that you can be successful at this cartoon exercise considering I take taught 100's of people the techniques outlined below in workshops around the land and the globe, and each time, folks come up upwards to me afterwards with their sketches and say "This is the all-time cartoon I've ever done" or "I've never drawn a bird before and I can't believe it actually looks like one."

So I know y'all tin do this. Permit's dive in!

Let's become started cartoon a robin

First, assemble a pencil and newspaper, and download the Robin Sketching Tutorial.
Adjacent, spotter the videos below to help you lot learn the steps I use when sketching a robin. The start video is a more than in-depth tutorial that goes over foundational sketching techniques using a robin as an example. The second video is shorter, and without narration, that shows me drawing a robin using my Cintiq tablet and Adobe Illustrator. I recommend watching and following along to both. Exercise makes perfect!

Robin Sketching Tutorial

This video is an in-depth tutorial that goes over foundational sketching techniques using a robin as an example.

Sketching Demonstration

In this video, I demonstrate cartoon a robin using my digital cartoon tablet. Try following forth with this demonstration as yous draw, pausing the video whenever you demand to. There'southward no narration with this video.