Draw Animal Textures with Tweety
Follow Tweety to draw animal textures like feathers, fur, and scales using simple lines and shading, practicing observation and fine motor skills.
Step-by-step guide to draw animal textures with Tweety
Step 1
Sit at a table and place all your materials within arm's reach so you are ready to draw.
Step 2
Pick three animals to study: a bird a furry animal and a scaly animal.
Step 3
Look closely at each picture or toy and notice how the feathers fur and scales are made of lines shapes and directions.
Step 4
Draw three small boxes or circles on your paper to use as practice areas for each texture.
Step 5
Follow Tweety and in the first box draw feather strokes by making short curved lines that point away from an imaginary center.
Step 6
Follow Tweety and in the second box draw fur by making many short quick strokes mostly going in the same direction.
Step 7
Follow Tweety and in the third box draw scales by making overlapping rounded U or semicircle shapes across the area.
Step 8
Lightly shade one side of each practice box with soft pencil strokes to make the textures look a little 3D.
Step 9
On a new sheet draw a simple outline of one of the animals you picked using light pencil lines.
Step 10
Lightly mark which parts of the animal will have feathers fur or scales so you know where to draw each texture.
Step 11
Fill each marked area on the animal with the matching texture using the same strokes you practiced.
Step 12
Add shading to the animal by pressing your pencil a bit harder near edges to create shadows.
Step 13
Write your name and the date on your artwork.
Step 14
Share your finished creation on DIY.org
Final steps
You're almost there! Complete all the steps, bring your creation to life, post it, and conquer the challenge!
Help!?
What can we use if we don't have a soft pencil or toy/photo references for studying feathers, fur, and scales?
If you don't have a soft pencil, use a 2B or charcoal pencil for the light shading and darker strokes, and if you don't have toy or printed pictures use photos on a phone or tablet to study the feather, fur, and scale details while you work on the practice boxes.
My feather strokes look messy—how can I fix them when following Tweety in the first practice box?
Go back to the first practice box and draw shorter, lighter curved lines that point away from an imaginary center as Tweety shows, erase the darkest mistakes, and repeat until the strokes look loose and feathery before filling the animal outline.
How should we change the activity for younger kids or older kids?
For younger children make the three practice boxes much larger and let them use crayons or markers for simple feather, fur, and scale strokes, while older kids should use light pencil outlines, smaller detailed textures in the marked animal areas, and stronger edge shading with a softer pencil.
How can we make the finished textured animal more personal or advanced?
Enhance the finished animal by adding colored pencils or watercolor over the textured areas, gluing a few real feathers or fabric scraps for tactile scales or fur, adding background shading and your name and date, and then share the creation on DIY.org.
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Facts about drawing textures and observation skills
✏️ Cross-hatching and short strokes let artists create believable feathers, fur, and scales using only lines.
🪶 Feathers are made of keratin — the same protein found in human hair and nails.
🐟 Fish scales grow in layers and often show growth rings that scientists can read like tree rings.
🐾 Some mammals, like chinchillas, have extremely dense fur, which helps keep them super warm.
🐤 Tweety first appeared in 1942 and is famous for outsmarting Sylvester the Cat in classic cartoons.
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