Printable: Drawing the Brown Pelican

A bulky bird with astonishing natural grace

I’m working on a two-part video for next week: we’ll draw brown pelicans (Pelicanus occidentalis) and American white pelicans (Pelicans erythrorhynchos) using two very different colored pencil techniques. Meanwhile, here’s a brown pelican printable with tips for sketching these huge, ungainly-looking seabirds.