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How to Draw a Hawk Flying
Draw a hawk flying in 12 easy steps, about 9 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.
Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: round head.
Step 1: Round head
Start on the left of your paper. Curve up over a big round head and stop low at the back.
Step 2: Hooked beak
From the front end of the head line, draw a small hooked beak. Close it with a short line.
Tip Short and fat, not a long bill.
Step 3: Big shiny eye
Draw a big round eye with a black dot and a shine. Add a small smile behind the beak.
Step 4: Plump body
From the head's back end, draw a long back to a round end. Curve under the tummy to the beak.
Step 5: Big open wing
Start on the back behind the head. Draw a big wing to a round tip, then 4 soft bumps down.
Step 6: Other wing
From the back, draw a strip up beside the big wing to a round tip. Stop on the big wing.
Step 7: Fan tail
From the round end's top, draw a fan tail out behind, wider at the end, back to its bottom.
Step 8: Throat and streaks
Curve a line under the eye, from the beak to the back of the head. Add 3 tummy dashes.
Step 9: Puffy cloud
Under the head, draw a little cloud with 3 round puffs and a flat bottom.
Step 10: Cream and yellow
Colour the throat and tummy cream and the beak yellow. Leave the eye white.
Step 11: Rusty orange tail
Colour the fan tail rusty orange. That is this hawk's badge.
Step 12: Brown head and wings
Colour the big wing light brown, then the head and other wing dark brown, around the white eye.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a hawk flying, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
