Vectis Birder
Itchy feet
Does anybody else have bother drawing beaks when sketching from life? I.e. getting the shape and proportions right? I find they're the hardest part to get right.
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Drawing beaks... (1 Viewer)
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nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
To answer the question, look at the sketches of a woodchat on my thread, you'll see one beak hanging off the bird and the other one being swallowed. Yes, beaks are very hard to do convincingly (as are feet, but they're easy to leave out - you'd be hard pushed to find a bird's foot in one of my pics!). The tricks are -1) make sure the beak is a part of the head, usually it extends under the eye (the gape does anyway), 2) look for the line that follows from the back of the birds head, through its eye and down its beak.
