GRID STEP. You can print out the base construction lines and start drawing on tracing paper, or you can draw the grid layout yourself using the following steps.Mark off the width and height of the hummingbird. Add guidelines for its wings, body and tail.

STEP 1. Mark the size of the head and body. Outline the general shape of the wing. Add tail feathers.

STEP 2. Delineate an oval for the head and a bigger one for the body. Add a triangle-like bill and a circle for the eye of the hummingbird.

STEP 3. Draw some feathers and the mouth.

STEP 4. Contour the hummingbird. Outline more carefully the eye and feathers.