Supplies to Draw a Turkey

Series Summary

Thanksgiving turkey is a tradition in most American households for Thanksgiving dinner. Observed on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, Thanksgiving celebrates giving thanks for bountiful harvests, as well as celebrating family and friends. It is generally a very traditional family event. Sometimes called Turkey Day, Thanksgiving dinner almost always features turkey, but also stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.

One of the great parts of Thanksgiving is the fall decorations you will see all around. Why not join in the holiday fun and learn how to draw a turkey for Thanksgiving decorations. In this free video series, our expert will show you each easy to follow step for drawing or sketching a turkey. You will learn how to draw the eye, head, beak, tail feathers and legs, as well as get tips for coloring each part of your turkey drawing. If you are interested in drawing or have a child interested in drawing this fall season, let our expert take you through the process of learning to draw a turkey.

Video Transcript

"Hello I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you easy ways to draw turkey cartoons for this holiday season. So, first we need to get our supplies together before we can start drawing our cartoon turkeys. The supplies are pretty straight forward. First you are going to want to have some good white paper. I mean at least a eight in a half by eleven which is standard printing size paper. Eleven by fourteen is even better. It gives you some more just some more room to stretch out on the page and make for a bigger turkey. You can also alternately consider having some color paper as well to draw on. You don't necessarily have to have white. White can make for the best contrast but there are other colors out there some more fall festive colors. Like yellow, brown, and red which you could also use. Next we are going to want to have just some basic lead pencils. You can also go with a light blue pencil, some people are also using these. But we are using these to kind of start drawing in our turkey. Also, you have to make sure you have an eraser. Then we are going to move on with some real fun colored pencils. We are going to want to have a variety of colors here which I would cover but definitely good colored pencil set at your disposal. Next we are going to have some color pens. These are going to match a lot of the shades. We are going to discuss our color pencils. Now you can go all out on these, you can have really expensive pens or you can have really cheap pens. It does not matter really for what we are going to be setting out today. A lot of the pencils look very good for your turkey. Then just lastly, you can help by having some other things like a photograph of turkeys for reference. Some tape, to tape things to your table if you are working on a slant also comes in handy . "