9/19/2023 0 Comments Bird skull sketchMark the jaw joint on the bottom of the skull.ĭraw a long curve defined by the bottom of the upper jaw. Some species will be easier to draw with a circle, others with an ellipse.ĭefine the perspective of the skull with some directing lines. So let’s see how to draw a “universal bird head”. The wrist hides under them as well when the wing is folded.īirds are extremely diverse, but their head has a structure universal to all of them. Scapulars: Feathers covering the base of the wing.Undertail coverts: As the name implies, these feathers cover the base of the tail.Flanks: The long feathers cover the leg above the heel.This way the bird can put an egg straight under the warm body, covered with the belly feathers on the sides. Belly: These feathers don’t really grow from the belly, but from the sides of it.Sides: These fluffy feathers cover the wrist when the wing is folded.Breast: This is the “torso” of the bird, though these feathers are actually attached to the neck.It covers the ear, but you can think of it as a cheek. Auriculars: This is a very distinctive area.They can look like hair, and there’s often skin visible under them. Lores: Tine feathers cover this area between the beak and the eye.Nape: It covers back of the neck kind of like long hair.Supercilium: It’s like a wide, long eyebrow.That’s why they’re so important in drawing: Feathers are grouped into parts of various functions, and these groups can be often distinctively colored, especially on the head. We don’t have to draw bird muscles to draw their bodies realistically, but birds have some other part of visible anatomy that can’t be ignored-feathers. That’s why birds use their knee like a hip joint, and also why the ankle seems like a reversed knee. Because of this, the center of mass has been shifted closer to the chest, while the hips still stayed in the back. In the process for optimization for flight birds have lost their long tails. Let’s simplify the body now, using both bones and muscles for this: The body of a bird is simple and bulky, with hips fused with the chest, so you can imagine the whole main body as one element. You just need to understand that under all these feather there is a normal animal with a torso, long neck, thick thigh and calf, and a specialized arm. So we don’t really need to memorize their detailed look. That theropod skeleton is covered with muscles… which we never see. What we see as a beak is only a part of normal dinosaur jaws. So if you only trace its evolution to a bird, you’ll find all these structures in the latter easily.Īnatomy of birds is well hidden under feathers, but once you think of them as dinosaurs, you should be able to imagine it without problems. Dinosaurs like A, on the other hand, are easier to grasp-they have legs, feet, arms, and hands. But birds are so uniquely built that it may be hard to “become” them. Why am I showing you this? When we draw animals from imagination, we often compare their bodies to ours to “feel” their movement and to create a proper, realistic pose. And C, finally, is a skeleton of a modern bird (chicken, to be exact), with its anatomy even more specialized for flying. B belongs to archaeopteryx-another theropod, this time with real wings and the anatomy optimized for flight. Skeleton A belongs to a very dinosaurs-looking member of theropods (most of them were at least partially feathered!). It can be hard to believe, but not all dinosaurs became extinct. Why? Because they’re dinosaurs! Simple Bird Anatomy Birds are fascinating, completely unique creatures, and they require a slightly different approach in drawing than the animals we have tackled before. But wings are not a separate entity-they’re attached to some animal, and today we’re going to learn about such animal. Last time we took a close look at wings, their anatomy, and details. After the site’s migration, the original is no longer available, but you can still access the content here. This post has been originally commissioned for SketchBook Blog in 2016.
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