How to Draw a Turkey Neck

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you easy ways to draw a turkey cartoons for this holiday season. The neck is one of the best places to exaggerate and make our turkey more cartoonish. Turkeys have those long slender necks that which you are always seeing presidents grasp when they pardon the turkey every single Thanksgiving or at least one of them. So we are definitely going to copy that here. What I actually suggest you do is first bring the neck forward towards the beak on both sides. This is going to match each other. Then we are going to have a little knot here representing a bone in the turkeys neck and then we are going to bring it back like so. What does this do? This nice long slender turkey neck at the same time it is a little more interesting that just having a very very straight line. Sorry necks do not work that way. And at the same time even if it was still angled that would look really really weird if it was just perfectly like this. So now what we have done is it just goes forward and it jets back. There is definitely an idea of balance here and it is going to set us very very well to be drawing in the rest of the body here. So at this point we have finished up with our main head and our neck and are ready to move on with the body. "