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This month's theme is peacocks! This tutorial, sponsored by Deviantart, will show you how to draw a peacock's handsome head! The art here was done using Photoshop, with a hard brush, set on black, for the first outlines. These steps can also be done using a plain ol' pencil and paper! Further real media steps will be shown at the end of this journal. First step: All birds start with an egg... Add a beak to the lumpy egg... The second illustration shows the shape of the lower jaw and wattles, but you will need to draw it in place, under the head. The lower jaw in place. Add the eye, lines to indicate eyelids, wrinkles, and neck. The topknot is fan-shaped and sprouts from the bump on the back of the head. Nostril The illustration below shows the general position of the facial markings. Now you can add the basic colors, In Photoshop I created a new layer and set it to "multiply". This allows the lines of your drawing to show through the color. I painted the colors in

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