Turkeys are remarkably colorful animals.
There is something innately funny about turkeys. The turkey's unusual facial features and its characteristic gobbling sound combine to give them a cranky, humorous character. An illustration of a turkey should aim to capture this characteristic. Start with a basic sketch. When you master this, you can move on to more complicated drawings, which show the detailed tone and patterning of the feathers, and the wrinkled texture of the skin.
Instructions
1. Draw an oval with the long dimension just off horizontal. Draw a small circle above it. Position the circle above the midpoint of the oval. This is the body and the head. Join them with two parallel lines to make the neck.
2. Add a dot for the eye a little way off the center of the circle and draw a point for the beak. Add the legs. Draw these as two pairs of parallel lines coming down from the body with three pointed toes radiating out from the bottom and one barb at the ankle height pointing back the opposite way from the rest of the foot.
3. Draw the ruff and wings of the turkey as wobbly lines, one on each side of the oval and one around the neck. Draw a final wobbly line for the wobbly bit called the wattle that hangs down from the beak.
4. Draw the fan of the turkey's tail feathers as a radiating series of finger-like lines coming out from the back of the oval. Draw a band along the outer edge of the tail fan.
5. Color the body of the turkey black, its wings a mottled grey and white, Its neck and wattle red, its head blue and the fan black. Leave the band white.
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