Drawings For Kids Rubber ducks have been recognized as the standard bathtub toy ever since Ernie, the joyful Muppet from Sesame Street, first sang the well-known “Rubber Duckie” to his best bath buddy. On Billboard’s popular songs chart, the song climbed as high as number 16! Since then, kids have been applauding their pals from water play.
Basic Duck Simple Drawing
However, older kids can relate this duck to art history, so there’s no need to confine it to a simple kindergarten Drawings For Kids project. Do you know that Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman created a series of giant floating sculptures of yellow rubber ducks displayed worldwide, Easy Drawing? They have all been sighted in the harbors of Sydney, Hong Kong, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Kaohsiung, and Baku.
Students studying PROPORTION could find it interesting to make their rubber duck with objects around it to illustrate its size after viewing photographs of Hofman’s gigantic ducks in one of those harbors (one of the Principles of Design). I don’t know exactly what Hofman had in mind, but the work’s disproportionate PROPORTION played a big part.
Step-by-Step Drawing of a Duck
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- Draw a broad curve in the center of the paper or chart that extends to the right and tilts downward, as seen in the picture, to represent the duck’s body.
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- To construct the duck’s head, add a downward-curving, question-mark-shaped curve over the top border of this curve.
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- A second curved line that resembles an inverted “U” makes up the upper part of the duck’s body.
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- Draw two upward-slanting zigzags at the curve’s right border to represent the duck’s tail.
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- Connect the head and neck portions at the head portion with a concave curve.
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- The duck’s beak should be depicted as a median line dividing the upper and lower beaks.
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- In the middle of the body area, draw a curved line to depict one of the duck’s wings.
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- Draw three curved lines to depict the feathers on the wings.
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- In the center of the headpiece, near the beak, draw a little black circle representing the duck’s eye.
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- Just below the eye, trace a very small bend inward from the base of the beak.
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- Make two very few parallel lines at the bottom of each piece of the duck’s body.
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- Draw two more lines that extend outward toward one another from the intersection of the parallel lines mentioned previously.
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- To make the duck’s webbed feet, add zigzag lines to the edges of these two lines.
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- As shown in the image, add a second leg with webbed feet behind this limb. Your duck drawing is now finished.
