Tip 1: How to draw a flamingo

Tip 1: How to draw a flamingo

In order to depict the flamingo, you can use the technique of drawing birds with the help of auxiliary geometric shapes, and then supplement the sketch with the characteristic features of this wondrous bird.

How to draw a flamingo

You will need

  • - paper;
  • - a simple pencil;
  • - The eraser;
  • - paints or colored pencils;
  • - Brushes.

Instructions

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Begin drawing with construction of auxiliarygeometric figures, they will specify the basic proportions of flamingos. Draw an oval, arrange it horizontally, afterwards it will become the body of a bird. Draw a curved line from one of its ends. Remember that the neck of the flamingo is very mobile, it can be lowered down, for example, to the water, or high up. The line size should be 1.5 times the length of the oval. In the lower part of the trunk, approximately in the middle, mark two points, draw two straight lines, these will be the legs. Their length is twice the widest part of the oval.

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Draw the head of the flamingo. To do this, pre-outline an elongated oval on the end of the neck, select a massive beak, pointing down. Its size corresponds to the size of the head. Draw a line separating the upper part from the bottom, while it should be located not exactly in the middle, but slightly shifted upwards. Draw a small round eye in the middle of the oval. Select the area devoid of feathering, two lines from the eye to the beak.

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Draw a smooth curve of the neck.

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Highlight the back of the flamingo with a convex line. Draw a smooth transition from the neck to the trunk. Finish the body with large dense feathers, they are not very long in the tail, so do not take them far beyond the boundaries of the auxiliary oval. Watch for the direction of growth of feathers.

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Draw your legs. Remember that they are very thin. Select the knobby knees approximately in the middle. The legs of the bird should not be absolutely straight, after the articulation the direction of the foot can be slightly changed. Finish the limbs with your fingers, between the fore-arms, draw a leathery membrane.

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Proceed to staining. For feathers, you can choose any color - from completely white to scarlet, the color is determined by the amount of food containing carotene. On the feathers of feathers, select a few black large strokes. Finish the beak (about half) and color it in black, select the line between its top and bottom. For legs, use a grayish color, knees and fingers color a light pink.

Tip 2: What is a skewed drawing?

Drawing-pervertysh - this is a humorous genre,which creates an illusion. When viewing it, a person sees a normal picture, most often the technique is caricature. And if you turn it 90 or 180 degrees before the look, a completely different image appears. The main feature of these paintings is the duality of the plot.

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Instructions

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The art of creating drawings of turntables originated in ancient times. One of the works is dated 1970.

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Interesting work, located in the Museum of Cologne. A porcelain tray, created in 1754 by a German painter.

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A well-known image of the "werewolf", whose creator is Terebnev is called "Igniter".

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Modern subjects.In the modern world, the most popular picture-turner is "The wife of the house is his wife at work", there are variants "before and after the wedding", abroad interpretation of this picture "Before and after six mugs of drunk beer". In the image - a portrait of a beautiful girl, with a turn of 180 degrees, she turns into an old woman. For example,

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There are also other versions of this well-known turn.

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Also, you can select several more drawings. The left image shows a frog, but if you rotate the picture 90 degrees, you see a beautiful image of the horse before your eyes.

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Fairy tales. Drawing-scrolls here play an important role. For example, a villain, turning at 180 degrees turns into a woman-yaga in a mortar.

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Serious king in a coup, turns into a funny buffoon

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Interestingly, the image of "Friends of Robinson", illustrating the parrot, and turning the picture 180 degrees before your eyes there is an illustration of the Indian.

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An interesting work of this genre is the pervert notes created by Mozart. Playing a melody on these notes first to the end or vice versa, it sounds differently.

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For example, several more images: One movement, when the picture is rotated 180 degrees thick king turns into a sad widow.

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Or a graceful and beautiful bird - a flamingo, at the turn becomes a majestic and large elephant.

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Tip 3: Flamingos: some features of the species

Flamingos belong to the genus of birds, which are the only flaming families in the family. These amazingly beautiful creatures belong to the flamingo unit.

Flamingo: some features of the species

Flamingos have long legs withlocated on the fingers of the membranes, which allow them to move quickly. The feathering of a bird can be either white or red. An amazing feature of the bird is that the flamingos have a flexible neck, which ensures the rotation of the head in different directions. The beak of the flamingo is very powerful and bent downward. This is what helps the bird to filter the food consumed by the body. A distinctive feature of the beak of flamingos from other birds is that in the examined species, the upper part of the beak is actively working, not the lower one.

If flamingos face a danger, theycan even take off. Since the color of the feathers along the edges of the wings of black color, it is difficult for the predator to focus the view during the flight to the prey. In artificial conditions, flamingos do not change their natural color, because the breadwinners add to them the fruits of carrots, sweet peppers, crayfish.

The habitat of flamingos are Africa, the Caucasus,Southeast and Central Districts of Asia, as well as South and Central America. Flamingo categories of pink are most often found in southern Spain, France and Sardinia. This species of birds settles in colonies on the coasts of small ponds or lagoons

Flamingos adapt even to such conditionsLife in which other birds can not exist. They can be found on the banks of very salty and alkaline lakes, since in such water bodies there is a large number of crustaceans that serve as food for birds.

Tip 4: Warm salad "Pink Flamingo"

"Pink Flamingo" is an excellent warmsalad, which can be served to the table as a side dish or main course. It is prepared very simply. And, despite the simplicity of cooking, it has an original look and an unusual taste.

Warm salad «Pink flamingo»

Ingredients:

  • 100 g of beans in green pods;
  • 1 tsp. garlic powder;
  • 100 g of tofu;
  • 1 packet of buckwheat;
  • 1 beet;
  • 1 cob of corn;
  • 3 tbsp. l. sesame oil;
  • sunflower oil;
  • Teriyaki sauce and soy sauce;
  • favorite spices.

Preparation:

1. Bean pods should be thoroughly washed, cut in half, put in a thick-walled frying pan and put out for 5 minutes using sunflower oil.

2. After 5 minutes, pour the garlic powder to the beans and pour the soy sauce. All thoroughly mix, cover and extinguish until ready for another 5-7 minutes. If desired, you can add a little water to the beans during the extinguishing.

3. Tofu dry wipe with paper towels and cut into rectangles 0.5 cm thick. Each slice on one side sprinkle with your favorite seasoning or a mixture of spices, peppers.

4. Heat the sesame oil in a frying pan. In the hot oil put all the rectangles of tofu so that the side, sprinkled with spices, looked at the bottom of the frying pan.

5. Tops tofu, too, sprinkled with spices and again pour sauces. At the same time, the number of sauces is determined "by eye", as there should not be many of them.

6. Tofu with spices fry 2-3 minutes on one side, after turning over, again pour with two sauces and continue frying another 2-3 minutes on the other side.

7. Beetroot clean, grate on a large grater, put in a bowl, season with sunflower oil and mix well. This is to ensure that the beet can not strongly color the other ingredients of the salad.

8. Boil buckwheat in a bag until cooked, following the instructions.

9. From the corn cob, gently cut off all the grains.

10. Cooked buckwheat, grated beets and corn grains put in a frying pan to the beans. Season with your favorite spices and soy sauce, mix and cook for 3-5 minutes, adding a little oil.

11. Pour warm salad into a salad bowl and serve to a table with slices of tofu or at will with meat.