By choosing to draw birds, you’ll find never-ending variety to explore with your pencil. The only thing as diverse as the birds themselves is the range of possibilities in how to draw them. By dispensing with color and using a grayscale approach with pencil drawings, you have the opportunity to explore the fundamentals of avian design, focusing your efforts on the values, patterns, and textures of your feathered models. In this book I will show you how to create the basic shapes that give different birds in various habitats and poses their form. Then, through a series of steps, I will help you bring them to life with simple drawing tools and a variety of techniques. Using my notes as a guide, you can render your creations in a way that suits your own style. As you put on the finishing touches, enjoy drawing with a realism that leaves the birds on the page watching you, and ready to fly off the paper.