How to Draw a Bald Eagle Head & Shoulders

Video Transcript

"Hi guys, welcome. My name is Lars Erik Robinson I'm an illustrator. Today I thought we'd talk about how to draw a bald eagle including the shoulders. And more of a, when you look at a bald eagle, of course reference always help. You want to start looking at how their attitude is and the first thing you do is like anything like, like even like people when you are drawing portraits, you start with the eyes to get their, cause even when you are looking at a person or an animal, that's where you look first. So start with the eye and then go maybe to, go to the beak, cause that's the other main form that's stands out. So whatever you want to stand out first, you want to put more focus on the first part, where people will look first. And then you can always have the rest of it fade out. So it's one, eye, the beak of the bird, maybe two, and then lastly you try to fade out your third step. And that's a good, that's a good theory right there. Try and always think in steps. Think of the eye and then think of where you want to go second and think of where you want to end up last. So that kind of gives a good composition because you don't have to have detail in everything. You can have detail in the first part, and a little bit more detail on the second and if you want to include an environment around the picture it's always good to add a little shadow in the back. Love it. So there is your bald eagle. It gives you the eye, the beak, a little bit more explanation how, of how it could look. Try to imagine it maybe as flying in the air. So always try to have fun all around artainment is my slogan. And art and entertainment is great. Thank you guys for joining me, enjoy."