How to Draw Japan
Birds & Winged Creatures — 100 Designs in 6 Steps
Series: How to Draw Japan
- AuthorAki Wakamatsu
- PublisherTakikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC
- CategoryHow to Draw
- FormatEPUB ebook
About this book
Draw the birds of Japan — from the red-crowned crane's hidden black flight feathers to the silent, serrated wing of the fish owl.
Created in Japan by a Japanese author and a Japanese publisher. This is the birds volume of the How to Draw Japan series — the drawing book that teaches wings the way a birdwatcher counts them: primaries, wing bars, toes, fingers and flight feathers.
Inside, 100 original designs, each taught in exactly 6 steps:
Chapter 1 — Cranes, Herons & Waterbirds: the red-crowned crane, Oriental stork, crested ibis, spoonbills and three kingfishers. Chapter 2 — Raptors & Owls: golden eagle, Steller's sea eagle, peregrine falcon, and Blakiston's fish owl — one of the largest owls on Earth. Chapter 3 — Songbirds & Garden Birds: bush warbler, barn swallow, the beloved long-tailed tit, white-eye, robin and paradise flycatcher. Chapter 4 — Ducks, Swans, Geese & Seabirds: mandarin duck, whooper swan, tufted puffin and the great short-tailed albatross. Chapter 5 — Night Wings & Small Flyers: NOT birds at all — bats with fingered skin wings, gliding squirrels, butterflies, the rhinoceros beetle, cicadas, dragonflies, a firefly and a honey bee. Five other ways evolution built a wing, in one chapter. Chapter 6 — Chibi Birds: ten favourites at half size and double roundness.
Why this book works when others don't: The wing plan never moves. Every design is built from one fixed construction — guides, body, parts, details — so the bird you start in Step 2 is the exact bird you colour in Step 6. No redraw shock, ever. The SKY layer. In Step 5, each flyer gains its air — wind streams, a thermal spiral, marsh reeds, snow, moonlight, a blossom branch — plus its companion. A bird must exist before its sky can gather around it. 600 step drawings + 100 practice pages. One full practice page for EVERY design, not a token few at the back. Countable wings, counted. Slotted primary "fingers" on the eagle, the owl's silent serrated edge, ten toes spread for walking on leaves, the bat's finger bones inside its wing, the beetle's flight wing folded under its case.
Perfect for beginners, manga artists building creature skills, bird lovers, and anyone who loves Japan's skies. Every design is an original, generic design — no official mascots, no local-government characters, no logos, no brand names.
Draw it. Count it. Keep drawing winged Japan.
