How to draw a hummingbird

Learn how to draw a hummingbird outline drawing sketch step by step tutorial guide for beginners.

What You Will Need

• An A4 size plain white paper.
• A pencil.
• An eraser.

You can download the printable high resolution hummingbird drawing sketch for practice use.

Please note: use a light HB pencil to draw all these basic rough hummingbird sketches in light colour, which we will erase at the end. For this tutorial purpose, I’m using the dark outline.

Step 1: Compose the hummingbird anatomy and position with an outline sketch-like in the image below.

Step 2: Draw the hummingbird body outline shape with rough outlines like the image below.

Step 3: Draw the hummingbird nose outline like in the image below.

Step 4: Draw the hummingbird neck body outline as shown in the image below.

Step 5: Draw the hummingbird eye outline like in the image below.

Step 6: Draw the hummingbird body outline structure like in the image below.

Step 7: Draw the hummingbird-wings outline sketch structure shape like in the image below.

Step 8: Draw the hummingbird tail outline shape as shown in the image below.

Step 9: Draw the hummingbird-legs rough outline shape as shown in the image below.

Step 10: Erase all the rough outline shapes, finally draw a thick outline to the final sketch.

Your Hummingbird Drawing is Complete!

Congratulations, You have successfully drawn this image. You can also keep expressing your creativity for this drawing, and you can do this by adding some extra details and additions. Be sure to have fun and experiment with painting colours on it as you finish the picture! 

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