This is a real time process video of how to draw a parrot with just a handful of charcoal tools. It’s a great companion video to my Domestika best selling course on creating birds in watercolour in which we draw a nuthatch in unit 1.
https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/1769-artistic-watercolor-techniques-for-illustrating-birds/sarah_stokes
Thank you to Ian Gray for the reference photo
Tools used
Line and wash board by Daler Rowney
Charcoal block by Seawhite of Brighton
Dark charcoal pencil by Kon I Noor (Derwent is another good make)
Mono eraser by Tombow
Standard eraser
Old oil brush for blending
Paper blending stump