Please PAUSE the "How to Draw a Chickadee Bird (Cartoon)" video after each step to draw at your own pace.

 

Written step-by-step video tutorial:

 

For the first few steps, don't press down too hard with your pencil. Use light, smooth strokes to begin.

 

Step 1: Draw the cartoon chickadee's beak as an angled line that's similar to a less-than sign (<). Close the shape of the beak by adding a short, curved line on the right side. Now add a horizontal line across the bird's beak for the mouth.

 

Step 2: Above the beak, draw two small circles for the eyes. The eye on the left will be behind the beak, so don't overlap the lines. Don't draw the chickadee's eyes too close together. Pay attention to their size in relation to the beak.

 

Step 3: Inside each eye, off to the side, draw a tiny circle to represent glare. In the middle of each eye, draw a big dot for the pupils. As you shade in the pupils, be careful to not overlap the tiny glare circles.

 

Step 4: Draw the chickadee's head by first making a small mark high above the eyes. Make two more small marks on the sides. The mark on the left should be close to the eye. Now connect the marks using curved lines to finish the shape of the head. The overall shape of the bird's head should be dome-like. The right side should slope right more.

 

Step 5: On the right side, draw a long line that curves downward for the right edge of the cartoon chickadee's folded wing. Sketch lightly at first. When you get the shape right, darken the line. Curve the line back up toward the eye for the left edge of the folded wing.

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Step 6: Draw the bird's body by first making a small mark far down below, directly under the eye on the right. Then add a mark on the left side and connect the marks using curved lines. The chickadee's body should be a long curved line that goes from the left side of the head to the wing.

 

Step 7: Draw the chickadee's first foot under the body by drawing a line similar to a backward letter L. Add a couple more short lines around the foot for the other toes. Draw the foot on the left the same way but make it a bit smaller.

 

Step 8: Draw two long, diagonal lines on the lower, right side of the body for the tail. You can also skip the tail and color your bird yellow for a baby chick!

 

Step 9: Using a pen or marker, carefully go over the lines to make your chickadee drawing permanent. After inking, get rid of every pencil mark with an eraser.

 

Final Step: Color your drawing using color pencils, markers or even crayons! Color your bird any way you want. For a chickadee, color the head and a small section under the beak black. Use gray for the wing and tail. Use light brown for the body. Add dark brown and gray near the bottom to give the body more dimension.

Color the bird's beak orange. To get a gradient effect on the eyes, color the top part dark brown and the bottom part light brown. You can also leave the inside of the eyes blank. Don't forget to pause the video to draw at your own pace.

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