How to Draw Owl Step By Step Guide - For Kids & Beginners

In series of animal drawings, this tutorial is on how to draw an Owl, for kids and beginners. Owl live all over the world except Antarctica. They are symbols of intelligence as well as superstition.

It is also associated with the culture of Greece, associated with the goddess of reason, Athena. Below is a few Fun facts about Owl for Kids:

There are 200 species of owl in the world.
They are nocturnal ie, become active at the night.
In a group, It is also called a parliament.
Small insects and birds are their prey.
Their claws are powerful and help them in catching their prey.
They have flat faces with big eyes.

This is an easy drawing tutorial also practice other animal drawings as well as, how to draw Camel, Giraffe, Bee, Wolf, Deer.

How to Draw an Owl

Step 1: Owl has a round face and swollen body, firstly draw around for the outline of the face. Below it to draw branches of a tree as depicted in the image below.

Step 2: Delineate an oval in between the face and branches for the body, at the same time mark the line for the center of the face.

Step 3: Outline the ears and their tufts on both sides of the face, as the owl has long ears.

Step 4: Draw a cone shape from the center of the body to the back of it for wings, draw guidelines for the neck also.

Step 5: Extend the body towards the wings, and draw a facial disc with smooth lines for legs.

Step 6: Draw 2 eyes on both the side of the face centerline and a small nose below them. Draw toes over the branches and define the tail.

Step 7: Work on the owl’s overall features and details, finish the tail, wings. Add nails to the toes, highlight the beak.

Step 8: All the outlines are ready, you can contour and shade them accordingly, and with your observations.

Step 9: Erase all the extra lines and render your realistic owl.

How to draw an Owl Step by Step

Step 1: Start your drawing with a head, draw a geometric figure consisting of 2 horns on the top and a pointed end for the chin in the bottom, as shown in the illustration

Step 2: On both sides of the head below the horns draw 2 eyes with a pupil in them, a pointed nose in between them. From the horns draw a curve coming below towards the nose with a flattened base.

Step 3: Draw 2 curved lines from both sides of the chin and in between 2 lines draw big dots for textures of the body.

Step 4: This step is to draw open wings, start drawing feathers of the owl, draw both sides of the wings the same.

Step 5: Draw feet to the bottom body of the owl, draw 4 finger-like structures for it.

Step 6: Below the feet draw a V shape and angular shapes for the back tail of the owl.

Step 7: Your owl drawing is ready, you can erase all extra lines of it.