How to draw a SEAGULL easy step by step

To draw the seagull you're going to need some white paper, a pencil, an eraser and a black pen and your choice of coloring pencils. Let's get started. We're going to start off our seagull with the body which is just a large oval shape in the center of the page. Just do it lightly in pencil. Just a simple oval shape just like this. It doesn't have to be perfect. Remember these are just preparatory shapes just to help us draw the seagull. Now we're going to be doing a smaller oval shape tilted the other direction. So this is going to be the head. So just a little oval shape like this. There we go. And then a little dot for the eye and then we're going to do the beak. Now remember if I go too quickly just hit pause and rewind. Sometimes useful just to watch the whole video through and then go back and then you can pause it at the bits that you find tricky. Okay so that's the beak. That's actually a teeny weeny bit too big so I'm just going to erase it. This is the beauty of doing these preparatory shapes. We can kind of get all the proportions right. There we go. And everybody makes mistakes. I draw all the time. I still make mistakes. Let's draw a curved line coming down for the neck. There we go. And then another one for the front part. So if you've watched any of my other bird drawings you'll know that the seagulls get very jealous. They live on the roof just above my studio and they seem to make a huge noise every time I try and draw another bird but today they seem to be pretty quiet because I'm drawing a seagull I think. There we go. Add on this shape just here onto the other oval shape that we did before and then the tail comes out just like so. And now for the feet. So one little leg there and then another one here. Oh you can hear them. Maybe you can hear them in the background. I'm going to switch to pen now but this is just so that you can see it better on camera. Please carry on in pencil and then you can go over and pen. So I'm going to draw the little circle. I'm and then a little at the corners to the eye just like that. We're then going to be adding the beak so the beak actually starts a little further up just up here. This comes all the way around and then pointed at the end. There's a slight tip there just like so and then the top part to there and then this comes inwards and then the same underneath. I'm going to carry on the head just following this oval shape that we did before. I'm just going to add a couple of little zigzags to show the feathers like this but I'm essentially carrying on following the preparatory lines that we did before until I get there. I'm going to do the underside. I'm just going to draw some dashes here just to show the shape of the head. I'm going to come down. I'm just going to go smoothly into the belly and come all the way down following the shapes that we did before until I get to there. I'm going to add a little tuft of feathers here where the top of the leg goes and a few more feathers underneath here. Now for the leg, I've made these a little bit too short so I can correct them now. So I'm going downwards like this and then just drawing the webbed feet. I can't see them very well because they're quite flat. Knees coming upwards like that. I'm going to do the other one. I just draw a little tuft of feathers just here underneath. A little bump where the knee was and then the same webbed feet. A little wrinkle there in front of the knee. And then we're going to do the back. So from here we're going to carry on all the way down, all the way down until we get to about here. I'm going to just draw a couple of feathers all the way around up to here and here. Now for some more feathers. Comes in like so like that and then the other ones kind of tuck underneath the tail. There we go and then a few more feathers following the preparatory lines that we did before. I'm just going to draw some ground just to show that it's actually perched on some on the ledge. I think it's perched on a wall this one. There we go. Okay so if you haven't gone over it already in pen, go over it in pen and then erase all the pencil marks. So these are some of the colors that I'm going to be using to color it in. I'm going to start off using the gray coloring pencil. I'm just going to use it super lightly just in the areas of shadow. So although the gull is actually white, obviously there are still areas of shadow which we're going to color in in gray. So seagulls are very clever and they develop and pass on different behaviors. So for example they can figure out that by stamping their feet on the ground they can imitate the rainfall and get earthworms to come up. They also figure out that by dropping mollusks from a very high place onto some rocks they can crack them open to eat them. So they are really really clever birds and also they can live up to 15 years and they mate for life and it's really sweet. Both the the mother and the father take turns to incubate their eggs. I know we've had seagulls nesting on our roof well ever since we moved into our house which was about seven years ago now. Yeah and we see all the babies every single year. They learn to fly off the top of the roof. So I'm just going to speed this up a little bit. I'm now swapping to black because this little area of the wing is black underneath here. It's got some little white specks and they're leaving the white specks white obviously and coloring the rest in black. So when I use coloring pencils I start off lightly and I just draw. I color in layers and just carry on layer upon layer just so I don't get it too dark to start off with. I'm now going to use this bright yellow for the beak and also for the legs and also for the eyes. There we go. I'm going to change to a yellow ochre just to make it a little bit darker on the legs and just here underneath the beak. Oh I've seen that I've made a mistake so using an eraser I can just erase all the boo-boos that I've done. So that bit wasn't meant to be yellow. There we go. Now I'm going to use orange and go over again just the areas that I need colored in not the areas that I don't. Now using a red I'm going to do a dash of color here underneath the beak and a tiny bit just here and around the eye. A tiny bit of red. Now I'm going to speed this up again and I'm going to go over the gray area. Okay so you may have seen that I used some blue and some purple just in the wings here just to give it a slight depth of color. Now what I'm going to do I'm going to get my eraser and just very gently I'm just going to do small little circles just to blend all the colors together. A little technique just to make it look like it's all blended. You can use various tools to do this, a stump or anything else that you like, some cotton wool even. And here's our finished seagull drawing. I hope you've enjoyed it. If you have then have a whole playlist of other birds so check it out now.