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I have always thought the seagulls were marvelous creatures. They inhabit shores all over the world. Sometimes they are alone, and sometimes they are in a flock. There is something beautiful in how they seem to drift in the sky as they search for food. They are bold, too, and will come close enough to a person to snatch their food. So it seemed that sooner or later, I had to create a how-to-draw worksheet for the noble seagull.
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The setting is as important as the portrait of the seagull so start with the horizon line, just as you would with any landscape picture. Start your drawing with a loose and free approach, almost as if you are just going to play around with some ideas. Scribble random circles where the huge clouds might be. Don't even try to put them anywhere on purpose; let the design of the clouds be like an accident. We'll come back to them later.
The seagull is in the foreground so draw it before you do too much with the background. Start the seagull with a teardrop shape sideways, an oval for the head, a rectangle for the neck, and a thin rectangle for the beak. Dont make the legs just straight; make him doing something like walking; it gives the picture interest.
Draw a few lines across the water for the crashing wave. When waves roll across the beach, they make foam on edge. Draw a wavey line where you want the foam edge to be.
Go around the lines of the shapes that you used to start the seagull and make it look more like a seagull, then erase the extra lines.
There are so many different types of seagulls that you dont need to worry about making yours perfect because somewhere there is one just like yours.
Go around the scribbled circles that started the clouds and make the best parts darker, then erase the others, make sure the sunlight is on one side and the shadow is on the other.
Keep the sea simple. Use lines going right and left for the waves. The waves far away are small and short; the waves become larger up close where they are longer and larger.
Use a triangle to add a sailboat; this will give a sense of distance and size.
For the foam of the crashing wave, start with tiny circles, then go around them and erase the extra lines. There will be shadows underneath the foam and under the part where the wave curls over.
The water of the wave will have a flow over from the top, and a flow out from the bottom uses fine lines to show this.
Use lines back and forth to shade the dark areas of the foreground water.
The sand is darker and coarser near the bottom; it is finer and lighter near the water. Take your time and use many dots in horizontal rows to give the sand texture.
Take your time with shading and texture; this is what will make the picture look real.
