How to Draw a Rooster

Step 1: The head

Near the top left, start at the chin and draw an egg head over the top, stopping at the neck.

Tip Leave the bottom open for the neck, and room on the right for the tail.

Step 2: A bumpy comb

Start on the head above the cheek. Draw 5 round bumps like a crown, stopping near the back.

Step 3: A pointy beak

Start on the front of the head. Draw a wedge beak out to a point and back to the chin.

Step 4: A big eye

Halfway up the head, a finger behind the beak, draw one big round eye with a black dot and shine.

Step 5: A dangly wattle

Start on the jaw behind the beak. Draw a small raindrop hanging under the chin, back up to the head.

Step 6: A proud chest

Start behind the head. Draw a big tipped bean: over a high rump, under the tummy, up to the chin.

Tip The rump end is high and the chest is low and round.

Step 7: A long wing

Start behind the neck. Draw a fat C shoulder down, then a long line back, ending in a point.

Tip A long leaf along the back, its point aimed at the tail.

Step 8: Feather bumps

From the bottom of the C draw 3 big round bumps back toward the tail, up to the wing point.

Step 9: Big sickle tail

From the rump sweep a long pointed feather up and over. Add 4 shorter pointed ones below it.

Step 10: Ground and grass

Draw a long ground line from edge to edge, a hand below the body. Add grass at each end.

Step 11: Thighs and a leg

Draw one soft curve under the tummy, starting and stopping on it. Add a thin leg with 3 round toes.

Tip The curve makes fluffy thighs. Keep the leg thin, not a fat tube.

Step 12: The other leg

In front of the first leg draw the same thin leg and 3 round toes, standing straight down.

Step 13: Yellow beak, ginger body

Colour the beak, legs and feet yellow. Colour the head, body and thighs ginger, going round the wing and wattle.

Tip Keep the eyes white.

Step 14: Teal wing, red comb

Colour the wing and the 5 tail feathers teal, then the comb and wattle red.