Pencil drawings of freshwater fish. How to draw a fish: step-by-step master classes for children and adults

Drawing a fish with watercolor pencils step by step for children

Master class “Iris fish” step-by-step drawing with watercolor pencils.


Author: Tatyana Evgenievna Sopina - Technology teacher, Moscow Chemical Culture Centre, head of the fine arts group.
MBOU Kerch Republic of Crimea “School No. 26”

Master class for children from 10 years old, teachers, parents
Course for beginners
Target: familiarization with the graphic capabilities of watercolor pencils when creating an image of a fish.
Tasks:
- introduce visual possibilities watercolor pencils;
- study the proportions of the fish’s structure, train the eye;
- teach how to draw a fish using lines and spots;
- repeat the order of colors in the rainbow;
- develop creative imagination;
- cultivate artistic and aesthetic taste, patience, accuracy

Step by Step Process of Drawing a Fish

Materials: landscape sheet of watercolor paper, a simple pencil, watercolor pencils, brush, water.


Stages of work:
1. Place the sheet horizontally. In the center we draw the body - draw horizontal line, divide the resulting segment into 4 equal parts. We mark the location of the head - 1 part, 2 parts - the body, 1 part - the tail.


2. Next, use lines to mark the head, body, and tail. We mark the upper and lower fin along the continuation of the head line.


3. Draw the outline of the fins. We outline the eye just above the center line in the middle of the head - an oval.
For scales. We outline 5 lines vertically, and closer to the tail of the division we reduce them.


4. Draw 7 lines horizontally.

We give a finished look to the scales on the body, rounding each rectangle. We erase vertical lines construction.


5. Draw the eyes and mouth on the head. And at the bottom we draw the second fin.
6. Draw the eye in blue, the mouth in red, and the head in orange.
Scales. We draw the colors of the rainbow sequentially from red to purple color horizontal strokes in the middle thickness of the pencil.


7. Fins and tail. We stretch the fin, repeating its shape from red to orange color. The tail is the same.


8. Blur clean water, neatly put a rainbow on the fish's body, head and fins.


Colors become richer and brighter.
9. When it dries, we modify the scales. We perform tonal stretching on each scale. From the line of the dividing scale we thicken the tone.



10. Shade the background with purple, blue, green, yellow vertical strokes.



11. Blur the background with clean water using vertical strokes. We often wash the brush so that the colors do not mix too much, leaving here and there some pieces of the background that are not blurred for texture.
12. Draw bubbles on the dried sheet. Selectively wash with clean water.


13. For the finished look, add purple and red colors with a pencil, shading the eyes, fins, and tail of the fish. We tighten the background by drawing on the algae with pencils.


14. Creative success.

Today I will tell you how to draw a fish with a pencil step by step. A huge variety is found in the world's oceans: both fresh and sea water. And which ones are not among them. In the world, according to various sources, from 25,000 to 31,000 species of fish are known: from the smallest, 7.9 mm in size, to the huge, 13.7 m long. Fish lovers keep them at home in an aquarium and can enjoy the beauty, diversity, and watch aquatic life.

So, let's begin.

How to draw a fish with a pencil step by step

Step one. On the left of the sheet we will outline the pointed muzzle of the fish and draw from it smooth line up and then down, representing the back. Step two. First, take a hard pencil and draw thin line. Let's look at how the mouth looks in our drawing and try to draw it the same way. In this case, the line of the mouth passes into the gills. Step three. From the gills we draw the line of the abdomen: first a little down, then up. To get a line almost symmetrical to the top, that is, the back. Step 5. Let's draw two large fins: lower and upper. We continue to draw everything with a thin line. Step five. Let's show the forked tail and two lower small fins of our fish. Step six. On the head we will place a large fish eye, consisting of two circles. Let's make the fish's gills more rounded. That's all, now we know. Our fish is ready. If some lines do not work out, then they need to be erased. The resulting drawing can be given color using colored pencils. Good luck with your creativity! Write comments below about this lesson and watch more.

Children often try to depict colored fish in their albums. But usually they work out similar friend on a friend. But in nature there are many different fish. We want to tell you how to draw a fish of one type or another using simple descriptions.

Instructions:

Learn to draw a goldfish

  1. The body shape of a goldfish is an oval. Having drawn it, use an arcuate line to draw a head on the body, and on it an eye and a mouth with thick lips.
  2. Add a fin on top in the form of a large ridge.
  3. The lower fins and tail are long and wide.
  4. Carefully cover the entire body, except the head area, with scales. They must be drawn especially carefully, reducing in size on the back and near the tail.
  5. Now move on to working with colored pencils.
  6. The fins and belly of the fish are red.
  7. The body is yellow with white areas in the middle, which create the effect of shine and play of light.
  8. The eye is black. Shade the very edge of the abdomen with a narrow black stripe. It will give volume to the fish’s body.



Learn to draw swordfish

  1. The body of the fish is a sword, long and flexible. Therefore, take an elongated oval as the basis of the body, and draw a curved axis inside it. And, repeating its lines, outline the body of the animal.
  2. Draw a needle-shaped horn in the middle of the fish’s forehead, a small eye on the head and a narrow, deep slit in the mouth.
  3. The tail should be shaped like a moon.
  4. Draw the dorsal fin like a horn.
  5. The fins on the belly are small and teardrop-shaped.
  6. To draw fish in color, choose pencils in blue shades.
  7. Shade the upper half of the body with rich blue. And shade the belly only slightly, leaving it almost white.
  8. Also make the fins and tail bright blue.



How to draw a guppy fish

  1. Drawing a guppy fish is not at all difficult. Her body is shaped like a small oval, slightly flattened at the top and bottom.
  2. The caudal fin is large and resembles a full skirt in shape.
  3. The dorsal fin is wavy, irregular shape.
  4. The eyes are medium. Draw a tightly compressed mouth with a small line.
  5. The lateral fin is triangular. The abdominals are narrow and long.
  6. Carefully cover the body of the fish with small scales. Draw black veins on the tail and fins.
  7. To color the guppies, you will need pencils of all colors. Shade the body with gray yellow flowers. And paint the tail and fins with all the colors of the rainbow as your imagination tells you.


How to Draw a Clown Fish

  1. Draw the body of a clown fish as an oval, pointed on the muzzle side, and on the opposite side turning into an almost round caudal fin.
  2. Draw the dorsal fin in the form of a ridge.
  3. Draw the lateral and ventral fins of an irregular shape with rounded corners and frequent veins.
  4. Separate the fish's head with a wavy line. And on it draw a small black eye and a narrow mouth.
  5. Draw five more transverse wavy lines along the body of the clown fish.
  6. We described how to draw the fish itself. Now let's move on to working with color. There is nothing complicated here. Use red and black pencils.
  7. The tail, all the fins and the head of the clown fish are bright red. And the body is striped - white - red.
  8. To add volume to the body, lightly shade

The topic of this lesson is "How to draw a fish", with beautiful name Betta. We will make a fish drawing with a simple pencil, but at the last step of drawing the fish can be colored with colored pencils, since many tropical fish, including Betta, have very bright and beautiful colors.

1. Start drawing a fish with a simple outline


Draw fish It's not difficult at all. It is enough to draw an elongated oval outline, draw a small circle for the fish’s eye and mark with a dash where the fish’s tail will be located.

2. In this step you need to draw the fins


Since the male Betta fish has very beautiful fins, you should make this element the main one in the picture. The fins of this beautiful fish “curl” like silk, thin and transparent, with “ragged” edges. But first, draw the outlines of the fins with straight lines, approximately the same shape as in my drawing. Draw a triangular outline of the dorsal fin with a pencil. The caudal fin will be the largest in the drawing, with a sharp angle at the top. Draw the lower fin and a small fin under the eyes of the fish, it is slightly moved to the left of the ventral one.

3. Refine the drawn contours of the fins


At this step you need to draw the edges of the fins wavy lines. The fins of this fish seem to “flow”, so make the lines arbitrary, you don’t have to copy my drawing. Thanks to the fact that you draw the edges of the fins with wavy lines, the fish in the picture will look elegant and graceful, and create the feeling of its movement. Refine the contour of the fish's head, make it a little longer and sharper.

4. How to draw a head


First remove from fish drawing extra contour lines fins, and then draw the details of the head. Start drawing with those elements that are easier for you to draw. A line highlighting the gills, next to a small gill fin. After this, you can draw in the details of the eyes and mouth. Draw a “mote” in the eye, and then shade the pupil with a soft, simple pencil.

5. Drawing of a fish. Final step


This final step drawing. To completely complete your fish drawing, all you have to do is color it with colored pencils. But first you need to completely remove the extra contour lines with an eraser. Without color it is difficult to convey all the beauty of the Betta fish, but if you need black and white drawing, then you can only shade the drawing with a soft, simple pencil.


The shark is the most dangerous sea animal, or rather it is a fish, and even appearance she has the appropriate one. A large mouth with many razor-sharp teeth and a predatory gaze. It is these details that need to be drawn first in the drawing of this fish. Otherwise, the shark is practically no different from ordinary fish.


The initial contours of the picture of a whale resemble the frame of an ordinary boat, only the rear edge is strongly raised up. Almost in the center of the whale drawing, draw a fin. Its shape is not complicated, so I will not comment on how to draw it. Add two more lines to the drawing with a pencil and move on to the next step. A whale looks like a fish, but not a fish, but a sea animal.


It’s not at all difficult to draw a picture of a dolphin, since its body has a similar structure to a fish; the main thing is to learn how to draw the head and maintain all proportions. Dolphin drawings are similar to fish drawings, only fish are very brightly colored, but dolphins are not.


You always want to draw a picture of the characters from a book you read about a frog traveler or how a frog turned into a princess. Drawing for children with a simple pencil, just like drawing a fish, is best done in stages, first outlining only the general contours.


Drawing a turtle is a lot of fun, but it's not the easiest task. The difficulty is that the turtle has a very unusual shape, and a difficult shell to draw. The turtle's shell has a grooved surface and its surface is difficult to depict in a drawing. In this lesson we will try to draw a turtle ourselves step by step.


Drawing an octopus is not difficult, just draw long tentacles and an elongated head shape and it will be clear that this is a drawing of an octopus. An octopus is very similar to a squid, but much larger. To emphasize the size of the octopus, you need to draw other sea inhabitants nearby, for example, swimming fish.