1. Fold the drawing paper twice to use as guidelines. Lightly sketch the outline of the round head, curved neck and body as shown.
2. Using a shading pencil, fill in the medium tones of the art by sketching a solid area of water, a filled in beak, and shadows in the body as shown.
3. Using a dark shading pencil and pressure to create a dark grey, fill in the beak, eye and shadows inside and out of the swan. The key to successful shading is having a wide range of gray in your art. A range of really light to really dark will a make a “ho-hum” drawing look much more interesting.