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Bird Painting for Beginners: Step-by-Step Realistic Bird Art Made Easy

teacher avatar Yashas G, Paint With Yash

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:34

    • 2.

      Feathers Blocking in

      6:07

    • 3.

      Painting Beak And Eye

      3:33

    • 4.

      Painting Legs

      2:03

    • 5.

      Textures On Feathers

      7:05

    • 6.

      Conclusion

      0:41

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About This Class

Unlock the secrets of bird painting with this beginner-friendly, step-by-step class designed to help you create a stunning, lifelike bird artwork from scratch. 

Whether you’re new to painting or looking to improve your technique, this class covers every essential skill—from sketching your bird and mastering color blending to adding realistic textures and shimmer to the feathers. 

Packed with easy-to-follow tutorials and expert tips, this is your complete guide to realistic bird painting. Enroll now and start painting beautiful birds that you’ll be proud to display, gift, or share online!

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1. Introduction: Hi, I'm ash. In this class, we'll paint a bright and lively bird together from start to finish. I'll guide you through painting the simple shapes, adding layers of color, and using painting and texture to make your bird really stand out. This class is designed for all levels. Even if you're new to painting, you'll find the steps easy to follow. By the end, you'll have a beautiful bird painting you can be proud of, and I'm very excited to see you in the upcoming classes. Let's pick up our brushes and get started. 2. Feathers Blocking in: Hi, and we'll come back to a new video. In this video, let's go on to give the blocking in to this bird. Blocking in part, I'll take in some. Let's start some orange and some lemonlolo. This looks decent. I'm using an angular brush to mix the paint. With that same angular brush, let's come right over here, top of that beautiful little orange color on this bird. Just go around the eye. Also, as you can see, I've got a basic sketch of the word, help me to know where to put which paint. We'll take in some more orange. Now we'll concentrate that paint towards orange. Yeah. Blending it and there itself. Yeah. Maybe we'll take in some more limlo or lemon lo sometimes. Place it right over here. Given that nice little glue. Look, it's that easy, sort of blending it. Of course you can leave it a bit rough to indicate some textures on the feathers. Yeah, there we go. And now, I'll take in some white and this color same old color, mostly white. Yeah. Take off paint off the brush just by, you know, wiping it off on a cloth. Let's come here. It's way too contrast. We need to lighten that. Yeah. Let's try with this color. Yeah, that's what we wanted. There we go. The plenty and d itself lightly very, very gently and very lightly same old angular brush. Look at that? I want it to be quite soft. Okay. And now I just go add in some brown or born sienna. Okay. So I'll just show you. I'll just stick in this burnt sienna. Sit well and some whine and some orange. So everything fits together as expected. Maybe more orange. Yeah. Let's add a small orange. Let's take that paint. Let's come with that bottom here. Maybe it would be good if we add some flat. Stick paint and clock in right here on this part. As we come down, and add some plaque to it, just plaque. Fingers. There we go. That's what we wanted. Feathery effect to make it look realistic. Yeah. There we go and take up the tt. Then there it sets and there. Take off excess brush strokes, the marks of the brush, the bristles. Now, I'll take in some black and some white and mix them together. Then it come right away here and play in that part of this bird. There we go. That's what I wanted. Look at that. That gives you that feathery stroke, then there itself. Come all the way till here. There we go. Now, I'll take in some white. Without cleaning the brush, just wipe it off. Let me just wipe it off on the cloth. Bring in that color will be here. Look at that, there we go. Again, go back, wp off the excess paint, come back and blend them with that very same brush. Yeah. There you go. That creates some dimensionness on this bird, which is good. I'll just speaking some more white. Let's here. We need more white for that. A little bit more white. Let's place it right here. And on the other side too. Yes. Okay, next video, let's go and see how to paint in beak and the eye. Thank you. 3. Painting Beak And Eye: Hi, and welcome back to a new video. In this video, let's go and see how to paint in this beak and the eye. To paint the beak, I take in some black and white. There's kind of a soft gray color. On that same old brush, there is angular brush. And let's come right over here. So is in that maybe we need a lot of paint. So the bristles of the brush stay intact. Yeah, just the brush. Sort of places in this beautiful little beak for this bird. A little bit more over here. Yeah. And go ahead, wipe off the brush. Take in some black, pure black. Of course, you can mix it with the same old gray color. I'm going to mix it with gray color. Yeah, I'm sure color as well, we paint this over that. Slightly darker shape than what's there above. There's upper beak and the lower beak. We can just go with some black to see what's going to happen. Yeah. Looks good. Realistic. It's come over here. First, let's go and blend this. Yeah. There we go. Now to paint the eye, I'll take in some black and some white, mostly black. Okay. That's got paint in this put line. And now I'm using a round brush, detailed round brush. So that'll be very effective. Can even make us to rig a brush as well. No, that'll work in the same way too. L renovation. We need this to be a perfect circle. So I got sketching in. And this looks good. But you can leave it like that. If you get this, I'm happy, but it's kind of making it even more realistic. Look at that sort of placing that color around the eye. We need to go back and reload the brush. And paint this one edge of the brush. Don't use both. Otherwise, you can't get that effect. And now on the very edge of this brush, I'll take in some white, some white. I've not cleaned this brush, to be honest. I just wipe it off. Okay. Well, I'm using the DD Donrush yet again. There we go. Let's look at the legs as well in the next video. Thank you. 4. Painting Legs: Hi, and we'll come back to a new video. In this video, let's go and see how to paint in the legs for this bird. So to paint the legs, simple. You have to double load the brush. So this is the brush which I'm using for the legs. That is the detailed round brush. And let's take in some white from there and place it right away here. So I'll take in some white. Okay, so one side is white, and the other side is gray decent little dark gray color. Beside from where the light is coming, let's sort of place. Look at that. You get that beautiful little effect. Yeah, there we go. Be another one as well. That will be slightly lighter in shape. Okay. In the meanwhile, let's go ahead and give some realistic effects to this part. So let's go. Using the detailed round brush again. That's very effective. You can even make use of the ga brush if you don't have one. Something like that. Yeah. This is just some indications of some feathers and, you know, interesting textures on this board. Go back, reload the brush, let's place some here just for sake of interest. Something like that. They'll be from different angles. He got enough. The next video to see how to add in the details on the feathers. Thank you. 5. Textures On Feathers: Hi, and welcome back to a new video. This video, that's going to see how to paint in the textures and make the feathers pal. For that, I've taken some white and just some white on my fan brush and wipe off the paint off the brush. And let's come right over here and start tapping in some beautiful textures of feathers on this bird. Look at that? Just that here. I'm sort of tapping it very lightly. No, I'm not exaggerating, but I'm tapping it very lightly. Not taken too much of pain. We're tapping it to get the realistic textures and effects go back, wipe off the brush completely. Come here, play around with the shadows and contrast and whatnot. This placing it all over here simply the blocking in part helps a lot in achieving that realistic effect. We go back getting smoot of that color. There we go. Also, this gives you a natural effect. That's a trick of using this brush. Taping it. Go back again, wipe off the brush. Tap it here in there. If you want you can take in some lack if you want, pace it back, over there, some here. Yeah, there we go, we get that up instantly. Slowly transition that effect so it's below it on the bottom part of it. That's inter to have paint. Yeah. Now for the face, let's take in some line lo, mix with some orange. Mostly orange, 50, 50. Yeah. Mix them together and take the paint. Let's just go all over here. Let's see right over there. Now to our very same pile of paint. I've added some white. Let's come over here and shape in the feathers. There's a bit like that and blow here on the head. Tapping it, don't lose that contrast. Just go back and tap it with a green finger. Tap it. That. Now to that same pile of paint, I added some brown. That's the p here, in that lot still need a lot of lighter colors. Always add some more white to make it a bit brighter. Yeah, there we go. That's effect we want. So the fan brush plays a very important role in this kind of paintings. Skip some of those parts, sort of come here to that effect. That easy. Tap. You can get a lot of those effects. I just go brown, just some brown. Then I want to come there. Okay. Just don't brush. Let me play. There we go. Now, take the detailed brush. We'll go back and place in more of that. Separations on the fears. Yeah, that's the trick. It's getting blended because the paint is wet and it's working in our favor. Look at that. That's here and there. Sometimes you get a lot of things going in your way when you're painting. Today, it is your day because it's coming very good. Okay. Yeah. Go back, take the fan brush, take in the paint, pleasing over here. I'll take in some more brown now. Take in some more brown. If you want, you can add in some black as well. Depends on the contrast that you have on a canvas or water paper or whatever. There we go. Freezing it. Let's now go ahead and make this neck a bit big by adding some highlights, and it looks natural on this bold. We have a decent sized neck. Yeah, there we go. That's it. Yeah. Something over here too. Yeah. 6. Conclusion: Hi, and we'll come back to a new video. In this video, let's go and see how to paint in the backdrop for this painting of this bird. So I just seeing some black on walnut fanbush. Okay, let me sort of catch it right away here. Yeah. There we go. It doesn't take much time. So anyway, I'll put the fine painting so you can look at it there. Thank you for watching till here. I hope you've enjoyed it. And I hope I've added some value to your knowledge in your painting skills. Thanks for watching. And I'll see you in my next class. Till then, take care and buy for now. Thank you.