How to Draw Baby Chickens, Realistic Chicks
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Start out by picking your materials. I used white charcoal for highlight, HB charcoal for fine lines, and 4B charcoal for dark shading. I also used soft willow charcoal for rough shading.
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Start out with a very basic and rough sketch. I used a carbon pencil for this step but you can use anything as long as it can be easily erased.
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Your sketch may look something like this if you use a carbon pencil. Don't worry about details just get a rough ideas of the chicks down.
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Roughly and lightly shade over the drawing with soft charcoal.
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Blend over the shading with a paper towel or blending stump.
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Add some dark shading above the chickens heads using 4B charcoal.
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Lightly add a layer of white over the heads. This is easiest with a white charcoal stick.
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Use a 4B pencil to add shading around the taller chick.
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Add a layer of white shading to the body.
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Use a 4B pencil to add dark shading around the shorter chick.
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Add a layer of white to the second chick.
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Add a layer of shading to the background using soft charcoal and blend it in with a blending stump.
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Use a white charcoal pencil to draw in the head feathers and highlights.
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Use a 4B charcoal on the background and dark shading. Add details using HB charcoal. You can blend in your shading using either a blending stump or a white charcoal pencil.
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Add feathers on the other chick's head.
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Use the same materials again to define this chick's head and the background around it.
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Draw in the feathers on the taller chick's body.
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Use 4B charcoal on the background and HB on the body.
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Draw in the feathers on the remaining chick's body.
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Define the chick's feathers and the background surrounding it.
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Use HB and white charcoal to define the chicks' feet.
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Shade in the feet using HB and white charcoal. Use a 4B pencil to add some shadows behind the chicks and clean up your background. I hope you all have fun with this one and as always comments and questions are more than welcome!
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April 24, 2012
Description: Hey everyone, here's a charcoal tutorial on how to draw baby chickens or chicks. This drawing is based on a super adorable wallpaper that I ran by. Once I saw the picture I knew I would have to draw it!
