How to draw a dove: step by step process

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Doves are birds that can be found in almost every part of the world. There are over 300 species of these popular birds. They are wild, decorative, postal and even meat. Pigeons differ in color, body type, shape of wings, tail, beak, and so on.

Since ancient times, it has been believed that the dove is the bird of peace. People believed that the dove is a pure and kind creature that does not have a gallbladder (which was an erroneous opinion), and therefore there is not a drop of bile and anger in it. Some peoples revered pigeons as sacred birds. Also, the white dove that brought a good sign to Noah is mentioned in the Bible.

From the article you will learn how to draw a dove. Let's see what we need for this.

Tools and materials

To draw a dove, you will need a simple pencil, a blank sheet of paper and an eraser. Oh yes! There are a couple more moments…

If you want to draw a pigeon with a pencil and then color it, prepare watercolors or gouache, brushes and a jar of water. Colors can be used instead of paintspencils, felt-tip pens or wax crayons. If you have everything you need ready, let's start drawing!

How to draw a dove step by step

1. First of all, draw a beak-triangle, draw a dividing line inside it. Further from the beak we draw a line up, depicting the head, and lower it further down.



2. From the bottom of the beak, we also draw a line down slightly curved in the neck area, depicting the breast and abdomen of a dove. We bring it to the end and connect it to the first line, schematically depicting feathers.



3. Now let's try to draw a dove's wing. We begin to draw it on the body just above the middle. We bring it to the left side, a little further than the end of the calf. We sharpen the end. With the help of a washing gum, we remove unnecessary lines crossing the wing. We draw feathers on it. Draw two paws at the bottom of the body, not forgetting to erase unnecessary lines. Finishing the claws and the leathery texture on the "fingers".



4. Finishing the tail and eye of the dove. And - voila!

We got a pretty dove that looks like a real dove!

Coloring the dove

How to draw a dove step by step with a pencil, we learned, now let's try to color it. To do this, you will need pencils / felt-tip pens / paints of various colors. The main and main color is gray. You will also need black, pink, green and bluecolors.

• Start with the head: color it in grey. We fill the wings, abdomen and beak with the same shade.
• Dove neck - blue-green, best applied over gray.
• Add black on wings and tail.
• Paint the paws pink and the claws grey.
• The pupil is black, the rest of the eye is painted pink or orange.
• Draw a picture around the contour with a thin brush in black. That's all, the dove is ready! If you worked with paints, then set the drawing aside for half an hour or an hour to let it dry.

Dove in flight

We drew a dove quietly and peacefully standing aside, now let's see how to draw a dove in flight.

1. Draw a beak and draw a curved line to the right of it, which will turn into a wing. We go back and finish drawing the head circumference. We draw another line to the right down, depicting a pigeon belly.



2. Parallel to the second line going down to the right, draw another one. Following them, draw a tail, depicting feathers one at a time.

   

3. From the line of the wing, drawn at the very beginning, depict feathers, ending them where the outline of the tail begins.



4. And the last step of the action is how to draw a dove in flight. Draw the visible part of the second wing on the other side of the head, draw the eye.



That's it, the dove is ready in flight!

Dove with a twig inbeak

Let's see how to draw a dove with a twig in its beak.

1. We start in the same way as in the previous stages of drawing - with the beak. From it we draw down a curved line, creating a neck, abdomen and tail base. Up and to the right outline the head, draw the eye.



2. From the top line draw up the wing.



3. Next, draw the second wing, not forgetting the feathers. We draw the wings as if the dove is preparing to take off.



4. Immediately from the feathers we draw a line to the right, which will later be the tail. We draw feathers. We divide the dove's beak with a horizontal line that does not reach the end and depict a twig in it.



The bird of peace flies with good news!

Drawing with kids

We tried to draw a dove and color it. Moreover, they were able to portray a dove in flight, sketched a bird with a twig in its beak. Now let's see how to draw a dove with a pencil for a child.

If a child is 10-12 years old, then it will not be difficult for him to portray a dove, as described above. If you have a completely crumb, then you need to look for another way. Children are very fond of circling their fingers and using them to create drawings. We will rely on this technique.

The easiest way to draw a dove is this: the kid puts his hand on the sheet, traces it along the contour, removes the pen and finishes with your help a couple of details.

Hereyour child can get such a wonderful dove. From the ring finger to the left, you need to draw a wing and depict feathers with the help of several lines. Draw a beak and an eye to the contour of the thumb, draw paws from below. This is how easy it is to draw a dove.

So that the child will definitely succeed, help him, explain each step in stages. For the first time, you can help the child circle the hand and tell that it cannot be moved, it cannot be removed so that the drawing is neat. Then the kid will be able to cope with this simple task. A large mother's hand and a small child's hand will help to revive the dove mother and chick on paper - this will bring you closer to the baby.

Try to draw yourself and teach this to your children. Good luck!