How To Draw a Chicken in 6 Steps

Learn How to Draw a Chicken in 6 Easy to Follow Steps

Let me guess… You’re here because you want to learn how to draw a chicken.

Well you’ve come to the right place, because…

This beginner-friendly tutorial will show you an easy way to draw a simple cartoon chicken in 6 steps. Once you’ve mastered the chicken, you might want to stick around and learn how to draw other animals, like a fat cat or even a corgi.

Step 1: Overlapping Ovals

Most things are made of circles. So, it’s very important to learn to draw circles. Learning basic forms like spheres and cubes will make drawing anything much simpler. Step one of this chicken drawing tutorial is to draw a couple of overlapping ovals (squashed circles).

Step 2: A lot of Wavy Lines

These lines are all pretty similar so I decided to lump them all into one step. It’s a lot, I know.

But you can handle it…

Start by erasing any overlapping lines. Then add the tail, wing and crown thing. I like to think of these shapes as cursive m’s. Soooo… hopefully that helps.

Step 3: Time to Draw a Chicken Beak

The last step was pretty crazy, so I made this one simple. Start by erasing all the new overlapping lines.

Now it’s time to draw the chicken’s beak. Draw a triangle with rounded corners and that’s it.

Step 4: Draw the Chicken’s Eyeballs

Another feature that chickens have is eyeballs. So let’s start by erasing the overlapping lines, then we’ll draw the eyes. 2 Circles make great eyes, trust me.

Step 5: Draw Some Chicken Feet

This chicken needs to walk. So, we’ll give him some legs. I haven’t 100% figured out chicken feet yet so we are going to take some creative liberties and call it “style.”

Two rectangles make the perfect nubby little chicken feet.

When people ask you “where are his feet?” Just say it’s a stylistic choice you made, and they give the impression of chicken feet with a more sleek/minimal design. Never tell them you can’t draw chicken feet.