How To Draw Mother Duck with this how-to video and step-by-step drawing instructions. How to draw cartoons for beginners and kids.
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You can refer to the simple step-by-step drawing guide below
Step 1:
The first step to drawing an easy duck is your first building lines or shapes. For the first shape, you will need to draw a slightly sloping and large oval. The left side of the oval will need to be slightly higher than the right side. This is because the body of a duck has a slight slope towards it. If you’re using a pencil, rather than a tablet, make sure the lines are quite translucent, so don’t press too hard, you’ll want to erase these lines later. Make sure that your duck drawing oval is centered on the page, allowing plenty of room around for the rest of your duck’s body.
Step 2:
Oval is the most used and most common of all building shapes. Your duck sketch will now need a wing base, and here’s another oval! Make this oval narrower, which will also overlap the main construction line circle of your duck drawing a bit. Keeping in mind that your duck’s wings will protrude slightly above the tail, make sure you draw the end of the wing building circle slightly over the oval of your duck’s body construction line.
Step 3:
Most ducks, such as your mallard sketch, have short necks. You don’t want the duck’s head to be too high for its body. Ducks also have exceptionally round heads. Look at the oval point on your duck’s main body where its wings begin to overlap, just above this point you will draw a small circle to create a head construction line for easy duck drawing.
Step 4:
The fourth step is a quick and simple one. Draw an elongated “U” shape to create a speculum. Your speculum should be pointing down slightly from the front of the duck’s head.
Step 5:
Once you’ve completed step five of how to draw a duck, you’ll notice that your duck’s final shape is actually starting to take shape. Start by connecting your duck’s drawn body to its head. You will need to draw two lines, each of which should be smooth and seamless. When creating the first line, start from the bottom of the circle building up your duck’s head. You will then need to draw a curved line back and then around the front of the main body oval. For the second neckline, you’ll create a curve from the back of the head, going down to the duck body oval.
Step 6:
It’s time for the sixth step in your easy duck drawing. This is where you will add the duck’s legs and feet. All you need are some simple lines to help plan their placement. As mentioned earlier in this how to draw duck article, we covered how most of the construction lines used will be circles or other shapes, however, for the legs and feet not.
The legs and feet of your duck drawing will be more freely shaped. Around the midpoint of the duck’s main body, on the underside, you can make two separate lines for the legs. These currents will flow both down and forward. Your duck will also need three toes on each foot, which can be drawn at the end of the line. Remember the point! The legs of the duck on the far side will naturally be a bit shorter because the legs are farther away.
Step 7
The tail of a duck has a pointed tip, which you will notice when looking at a real duck as well as in duck drawings. The shape is almost iconic. Again, this step in your duck sketch is very simple. Start your tail line at the intersection of the main body and wings on the duck’s back, creating a small, curved tail that ends at the underside of the main body oval. Remember the sharp tip!
Step 8:
We’re almost at the end of our duck sketching tutorial! You will now create the final outline for your duck. Using the duck construction lines you created, you can now sketch out your duck drawing. This includes a duck’s head and body, wings, and even some of the duck’s facial features.
Starting with the duckhead, make sure you outline and follow your construction lines closely and precisely. You can add a small curve on the base of the beak. This will help show separation from the rest of the top of your duck drawing. You can also draw a line to represent the separation of the top and bottom halves of the beak. Remember that ducks also have nostrils, so draw a small hole near the top of the beak, where it meets the head. You can also draw a circle for your duck’s eyes.
Now, up your duck wings. You can dip your outline under the construction shape a bit, adding a few points at the end and a line at the top. To make drawing your duck’s tail easier, add some characters with some additional feathers. Your center point for y
Step 9
Finally, delete the excess outline. Then you draw a few more ducklings around our duck.