How to Draw a Blue Tit

Step 1: Round head

Near the top left of your paper draw a big round head, a little wider than tall.

Tip Leave room on the right and below for the body and branch.

Step 2: Tiny beak

Start on the front of the head. Draw a tiny stubby triangle out to a point, back to the head.

Tip A blue tit's beak is very small, shorter than the eye is wide.

Step 3: Big eye

Behind the beak, draw a big round eye. Add a big black dot with a white shine.

Step 4: Cap and bib

Draw a cap line over the head, from front to back. Add a small bib curve under the beak.

Tip Leave a wide gap between the cap line and the eye.

Step 5: Eye stripe

Draw 2 close lines from the beak to the eye. Draw 2 more from the eye to the back edge.

Tip The stripe runs through the middle of the eye.

Step 6: Plump body

Start on the back of the head. Curve down the back, round a fat belly, and stop under the beak.

Tip A plump egg hanging under the head, narrower than the head.

Step 7: Short tail

From the back end of the body, draw a short tail down and back. Add one feather line along it.

Tip Keep it short: about as long as the head is tall.

Step 8: Folded wing

Start under the back of the head. Draw a shoulder forward, then sweep back to a point by the tail.

Step 9: Front leg and toes

Start under the front of the tummy. Draw a short thin leg with 3 toes, back to the tummy.

Step 10: Back leg and toes

A thumb behind the first leg draw a second leg the same way, starting and stopping on the tummy.

Step 11: The branch

From the left edge, draw a branch top hopping over the toes, round the end, and back along the bottom.

Step 12: Yellow tummy

Colour the chest and tummy yellow, around the wing. Colour the beak, legs and toes dark grey.

Tip Keep the eye and the cheeks white.

Step 13: Blue cap and wing

Colour the cap, the wing, the thin strip of back and the tail blue.

Step 14: Dark stripe, brown branch

Colour the eye stripe and the bib dark blue. Colour the branch brown, around the toes.