Since ancient times, people have endowed swallows with magical properties. Many fairy tales and legends have been created about these graceful fast birds. In some European countries, it is the swallows that are believed to bring spring. This bird has several features to consider when drawing.
Circle and oval
Before you start drawing, consider a drawing or photograph of a swallow. It is better to choose a picture where this bird is depicted in the most characteristic perspective - for example, with outstretched wings against the background of the sky, when both a forked tail and sharp wings are clearly visible. See what geometric shapes the body parts of the swallow look like. The body is an oval, the head is a circle, the wings can be drawn based on the same obtuse triangles.
The picture can be black and white - it is not the colors that are important to you, but the ratio of light and dark spots on the swallow's body.
We begin to draw a swallow
The swallow is best depicted in flight. It can move in any direction, so you can put the sheet as you like. Draw an oval. If it turns out to be crooked, that's okay. You will then mask the uneven lines with hatching. Determine the approximate ratio of body and head sizes and draw a circle to the oval. Its diameter is slightly less than the short axis of the oval.
Of course, the swallow can take different poses, so the head can be slightly to the side. But then the position of the wings will have to be changed in the figure.
If you are not very confident in your abilities, start with a long, straight line. This will be both the long axis of the oval and the diameter of the circle. Divide the line into 3 equal parts, one of which is for the head, the other two for the body. Draw a circle and an oval.
Wings
Using a hard pencil, draw two obtuse triangles to the oval. Obtuse corners are adjacent to the oval. The wings, of course, cannot be drawn in perfectly straight lines. The part of the wing that is closer to the tail is an arc, the convex part of which is directed towards the inner part of the wing. Try to keep the arcs symmetrical. As for the outer wing line, it can simply be slightly rounded where the shoulders are.
Tail and beak
The tail can be drawn in two ways. Draw a long rectangle over the oval. From the bulging point of the oval, draw straight lines to the ends of the opposite short side of the rectangle. The tail is ready. You can simply draw two diverging straight lines from the most convex point of the oval, and then circle them with a soft pencil, making maximum pressure at the starting point and gradually weakening it towards the ends of the tail.
The swallow's beak is just a short, straight line. Contour the white spots. Shade dark spots. You can complement the drawing, for example, with clouds scattered across the entire field of the sheet. They are freeform closed curves.
