How to draw Hawaiian birds
Hereʻs a small selection of tutorials on drawing native Hawaiian birds. A few teachers have mentioned that videos are really helpful in the classroom.
Artist Joanna Maney aka Wandering Finch has a wonderfully simple postcard that shows how to draw native Hawaiian forest birds with simple shapes (a circle for the body, the curve of the beak, two dots for eyes, a little tail, simple lines for legs, and add color = done!)
Hawaii Wildlife center posted this cute tutorial on how to draw a seabird.
Artist Maggie Sutrov of Paint There has recorded a number of drawing lessons on her YouTube channel.
Artist Patrick Ching demonstrated drawing an ʻōʻō for the Hawaiian bird festival.
In this video he shows how to draw an ‘i’iwi:
Artist Keiko Saile of The Aloha Studios demonstrates how to draw birds in her YouTube live videos. Hereʻs a selection:
And of course, my tutorial on drawing the palila:
