How To Draw: Eggs and Chicks (Easter Special)

Happy Easter everyone! It is time for me to draw something Easter related again! This year, I will show you how to draw some eggs and an Easter chick. It wouldn't be Easter without them.

Stage One

Eggs are simple to draw, but they do come in many shapes, sizes, colours and patterns. I will draw three examples to demonstrate with; chicken, guillemot and dunnock. The classic chicken egg is a circular shape with one end slightly narrower than the other. The guillemot egg is almost pear-shaped, with one end more narrower than that of a chicken's. The dunnock egg is small and is simply a small circle.

Stage Two

Draw the outline of the egg again, but this time in pen. Rub out the pencil afterwards.

Stage Three

Next, create any pattern that your egg may have in pencil. This can be simply just tiny specks or dots to larger splodges of shading. Each egg is different, so it is up to you to how the egg should look. For the plainer looking eggs, such as my chicken and dunnock eggs, I have given them a light shading along one side and to the bottom of the egg, which I then lightly smudge with my finger to give a 3D feel to them.

Stage Four

Finally, colour in your eggs however you like. It is up to you if you want to colour them in how nature intends them to be or to go full Easter festive mode and colour them in bright colours. The choice is yours. All eggs are different. My chicken egg is a mixture of light browns with some light fleckings. My guillemot egg had its markings gone over in pen and was coloured brown. My dunnock egg is grey and blue.

Stage One

Drawing a chick is no different to drawing an adult bird except for being more fluffy. The chick of a chicken is perhaps one of the most iconic bird chicks in the world and its cute, fluffy yellow down feathers make them very popular and it makes them more associated with Easter than any other young bird. So as it is Easter, I will draw a chicken chick. The basic shapes for drawing most bird chicks is the same as if you were drawing an adult bird; a circle for the head and an oval for the body.

Stage Two

Using these basic shape, you can now build on them to create the body shape of your chick from connecting the head and body together by adding a neck to adding a point for the tail. Most chicks are rounded in shape at this stage of their young lives due to their fluffy down feathers, so keep the shape as round as possible. Add the features such as the bill, legs, eye and a tiny wing.

Stage Three

 When it come to redrawing in pen, only draw the outlines to the bill and feet. The outline for the body is broken up into a series of tiny lines to give the impression of fluffy down and making it look rather adorable. Cover the entire body with these tiny lines, too. Shade in the eye and add a line to divide the bill for its mouth.

Stage Four

Now colour in your chick in however you like. Traditionally, Easter chicks are yellow, but you can add markings of a different colour if you wish. Again, the choice is all yours.

If you want to draw other species of bird, check out my other How To Draw guides by clicking on this link http://seanspetmonster.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html. From here, you can see other wildlife subjects that I have drawn from birds to flowers. Happy Easter everybody and don't eat too many Easter eggs!