BIRDS

Lunar Bird, Joan Miro, 1945

Woman and Bird Before the Moon, 1944, Joan Miro

Taken from How To Draw A Cartoon Bird.

It is your decision, aptitude aside, how intense or abstract, the detail it is you choose to include. If you can draw shapes, you can draw anything you wish. It is up to you how you want it to look. You don't have to use cross hatching to shade an object and you don't have to use scissors to cut paper. It just so happens these skills aid eye to hand coordination. Once learnt, you can't un-learn them.

Quentin Blake's take on birds. The feathered kind.

Flying parrot with a pen clasped in his feet. Pen, ink and watercolour on Arches paper, Quentin Blake, 2003.

Darwin's Rhea, John Gould, 1841

This diagram of the skulls of different pigeon breeds is from Charles Darwin's Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication.