On this episode of Cartoon Acade we're drawing a perching parrot.

We begin with the eyes.

It's a circle shape like this.

And then the pupils.

People sometimes ask why I so often start with the eyes and I say it's like meeting a ne You should always look them right in the eyes.

Next we have the marking aroun that I want to draw a line up, come around a couple little notches.

Bring that down and up.

There are over 350 known species of parrot, ranging from Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas.

Now for the top of the head we c Few feathers.

Down and then the neck feathers Down a little space up, down.

Letter w w and connect for the eyebrows up.

Point down and then thicken up t a little bit.

Just want to go over it a few ti Good.

Now we're ready to add the beak right where we left off on this We're going to come up down, hook in up, around and in.

The lower part of the beak.

Looks like this.

Out in we have a line across the base o that we're then going to fill in There we go.

We're also going to fill in the part of the beak right here.

Little dash.

Just like s The most common colors for parro feathers are red, green, blue, gray, and cyan.

for the wings starting right her at the base of the neck, come around down and up.

Let's add another feather.

Down and up.

One more down.

Up.

Little feathers sticking out the and then connect to the neck.

Excellent for the body.

Starting from the base of the neck on this side.

Down and in and connect.

Or other wing.

Looks like this.

Next to the legs we're going to add two little so right here one and two and down down down down.

Now for the feet 1,2,3,4.

We're going to make our parrot standing on a perch.

Now you don't have to add the pe It's a free drawing so no perch is necessary.

At a line across a letter O into the feet.

Across, over, around and in.

Two lines coming down from the base of the perch.

Now we add the tail feathers dow up, over, up.

And then there's one mor that sort of goes behind the per like so.

Two lines on the tummy.

Sign your name.

Take pride in your work.

And there's a parrot.

Great job.