How to Draw a Chicken
If you want to learn how to draw a chicken quickly and easily, then you will really like this lesson. Start this guide and get useful skills.
Today, you will learn how to draw a chicken. Easydrawingart.com team will show you how to draw this pet bird in 12 easy steps. We are sure that thanks to clear pictures and a detailed description of each step, you can easily draw a chicken and be satisfied with the result.
Chickens were domesticated many years ago and today are the most common poultry bred for their meat and eggs. The popularity of these birds is explained by the fact that they are unpretentious and easily breed in captivity, and chicken meat is very nutritious and easily digestible.
In this walkthrough, the chicken looks very realistic and has natural body proportions. Be careful and try to keep these proportions in your drawing.
Time needed: 1 hour
How to Draw a Chicken
- Draw the head and torso.
At the beginning of drawing, prepare the base, for this, draw two circles of different sizes at a certain distance from each other.
- Depict the neck.
In this step, you begin to give the body of the chicken the desired shape. Draw smooth connecting lines from the head to the body.
- Add the back of the body.
With a smooth line, draw the back and upper edge of the tail and draw plumage on the tail using small rounded strokes.
- Sketch out the wing.
Draw a smooth curved line in the middle of the body. Then, with the help of several transverse lines, depict the plumage on the wing.
- Add the beak.
The chicken has the small, pointed beak, in which the upper part has a curved edge. First draw the top part of the beak, then add a small bottom part.
- Draw the eye and earrings under the beak.
In this step, you have to add a few small elements. Draw the eye and add two earrings under the beak.
- Depict the comb.
Draw the comb above the beak and on the top of the head using jagged lines. It is allowed that the top edge of the ridge may differ slightly from the example.
- Sketch out the upper parts of the legs.
From the body, draw down semicircular lines. For this purpose, you can use short strokes to immediately detail the feathering on the legs.
- Add the lower parts of the paws.
The chicken has thin paws and long thin fingers with small sharp claws at the end. The toes are widely spaced.
- Detail the plumage.
Now you can move on to additional elements and depict the plumage of the chicken. On the body, draw thin rounded lines of different sizes.
- Correct the inaccuracies.
It’s time to prepare the drawing for coloring. Correct the mistakes if necessary and remove any extra lines.
- Color the chicken.
Easydrawingart.com artists have painted the chicken brown, but you can use black or gray. Color the crest and earrings in red, color the beak and paws in yellow.
Now you have learned how to draw a chicken step by step. We hope that you have memorized all the drawing steps and can easily draw a chicken if necessary. We recommend that you complete other lessons on our website, where other birds are presented. Improve your artistic skills with our fun lessons!