How to draw a fish with a pencil? To make the drawing as realistic as possible, you need to pay attention to characteristics body structure of most fish species. You can draw these creatures both from images and photographs, and from nature. Naturally, for a start it is worth learning how to most accurately reproduce the simplest fish on paper.
We study the anatomy and structure of individual parts of the body
Paying attention to the main principles artistic image common types of fish, later you can figure out how to draw a fish. Her body will be a combination of various forms. It will not be difficult to create a unique, inimitable fish on a sheet of paper using regular pencil.
Features of the structure of the skeleton of fish:
- the head of the fish is fixedly connected to the spine, which is a set of peculiar spikes;
- the tail of the fish consists of caudal fins;
- the dorsal fin is located on top along the body of the fish ( certain types have more than three dorsal fins, sometimes combined into a single whole);
- the ventral fins are located in the lower part of the body of the fish (usually in the middle), while the pectoral fins are located directly behind the head, and the hind fins are located directly in front of the caudal fins.
Choice of body shape
To figure out how to draw a fish, you should remember that most representatives of aquatic vertebrates have the same basic body parts. Their body consists of a body, head, tail and fins. There is nothing difficult in drawing a fish. First of all, you need to draw an element of an elliptical shape on paper (this will be the body), then the head, fins, and tail are added to such an ellipse.
Draw the fins
In the figure, you can depict the fins in the form of hard spikes or soft rays. The first option will give the drawing aggression. Fins with rays look softer, their ends are somewhat reminiscent of air feathers.
Depending on the type of fish, its image style, you can draw the following options for tail fins:
- jagged with jagged edges;
- forked;
- round;
- square;
- sharp with and without a hard fin;
- crescent-shaped fins;
- asymmetrical fins.
Draw the head and eyes
How to draw a fish so that its image matches reality as much as possible? Although some fish species have various forms head, you can draw the most typical - wide closer to the body and tapering to the mouth. At the same time, it should be remembered that most fish have gills closed with characteristic armored flaps.
Trying to figure out how to draw a fish in stages, you should pay attention to detailed drawing eye. Almost all fish have round eyes, but certain differences are hidden in the shape and brilliance of the iris. Sometimes the fish eye acts as part of the disguise, because of this, fish with multi-colored, heterogeneous irises often come across. Therefore, the flight of fancy when depicting the eyes of a fish is unlimited!
How to draw a fish in an aquarium?
First you need to depict the sides of the aquarium in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped. Next, you should move on to the image of the lid and bottom of the aquarium, filling out these details with pronounced dark shades. After completing the drawing of the aquarium, you can proceed directly to drawing fish, stones and vegetation.
On one side of the sheet, it is necessary to outline the sharp muzzle of the future inhabitant of the aquarium, and then depict the back using smoothly moving up and down lines. The mouth of the fish should be drawn hard pencil, creating thin lines that turn into gills.
From the gills it is necessary to draw a line of the abdomen, which first goes down and then slightly rises up. As a result, a line almost symmetrical to the back of the fish should form. Then we draw the upper, small lower fins and tail. On the head it is necessary to depict a round fish eye, the iris of which consists of several circles.
In conclusion, you can colorize the drawing by adding a small amount of algae to it in the form of oblong green leaves. To depict the play of light on the walls of the aquarium, it is enough to draw a few short, diagonal lines distant from each other. If some of them came out uneven, they can be erased or corrected. You can add color to the drawing using pencils or paints.
Using such simple recommendations, you can quickly learn how to portray the inhabitants of the water element. How to draw a fish with a regular pencil? Very simple! Follow the instructions - and you will succeed. Moreover, to cope with such a simple task is within the power of both an adult and a child.
I am sure you and your child will like this drawing lesson for kids, because you can draw a cute fish very easily! Take a pencil or felt-tip pen and start drawing with the kids!
Drawing lesson for children: draw a fish in stages
Draw the big arc you see in the picture below - this will be the top line of the fish's body! Pay attention, on the right, the line should end a little higher, because we need to leave room for the tail of the fish.
Draw the bottom line of the fish's torso, starting from the left side. Do not close the line on the right, but leave room for drawing the tail.
We have drawn the torso and now we will move on to drawing the tail of the fish. The tail is quite simple to draw - the upper half of the tail can be depicted as a leaf of a tree. If you look closely, you will see that half of the fish's tail is exactly the same shape as a tree leaf.
To finish drawing the tail of the fish, draw the bottom half, exactly the same shape.
We continue drawing lesson for kids and in the next step we move on to drawing the fins.
Drawing fins is also quite easy, just a couple of lines. The upper fin is larger, and draw the lower fin smaller.
Finish the drawing by drawing a cheerful "muzzle" of the fish. Separate the “muzzle” from the body with a line, draw a smile and an eye for a fish.
The drawing of a cute fish is ready! As you can see, drawing a fish with children is very easy! I look forward to seeing you in the next lessons, I will be grateful for your comments about drawing lessons with children!
Complexity:(3 out of 5).
Age: from three years old.
Materials: a sheet of thick paper, wax crayons, a simple pencil (just in case), an eraser, watercolor, a palette with indentations for water, a large brush.
Purpose of the lesson: we pass or consolidate knowledge about color (yellow, red, black), shape (oval, circle).
Progress: the child draws a large oval (torso), decorates, separates the head, draws an eye (small circle), lips, draws scales, attaches a tail and fins to the body.
Download lesson materials on drawing a fish
We take yellow wax crayon and draw an oval. If the baby is not yet confident in himself, draw an oval with a simple pencil until it works. All sketches with a simple pencil are made with a light movement, without strong pressure. The line from the pencil should be thin so that in case of failure it can be erased with an eraser without a trace.
As soon as the oval turned out, we carefully decorate it with the same chalk. We separate the head from the body with an arc, which will be in place of the gills of our fish. You can make gills and scales in a different color. We draw each scale separately, we strive for the same rounded shapes. Scales will have to work hard. The child will need to be patient.
When everything is ready, draw an eye with black chalk. In red we draw sponges (like a turned heart), fins and a tail.
When the fish is completely drawn, we prepare the watercolor. In this work, we can turn on the imagination and add different colors when we draw water. For this we will choose blue, blue, purple, green. We dilute them in the palette with a large amount of water, for each color its own recess. We take a large brush, dip it into the cell with the selected color, so that the pile of the brush is well saturated, and with horizontal lines, moving from left to right, paint over the sheet. Apply each subsequent line next to the previous one. Apply them easily and quickly so that the paint does not have time to soak and dry. Watch how the water paint will spread, creating beautiful patterns.
Drawing a fish with watercolor pencils in stages for children
Master class "Fish-iris" drawing with watercolor pencils step by step.
Author: Sopina Tatyana Evgenievna - Technology teacher, MHK, head of the art circle.
MBOU Kerch Republic of Crimea "School No. 26"
Master class for children from 10 years old, teachers, parents
Beginner course
Target: acquaintance with the graphic capabilities of watercolor pencils when creating an image of a fish.
Tasks:
- introduce the visual possibilities of watercolor pencils;
- to study the proportions of the structure of the fish, to train the eye;
- teach using lines, spots to draw a fish;
- repeat the order of the 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 watercolor paper, simple pencil, watercolor pencils, brush, water.
Stages of work:
1. We place the sheet horizontally. In the center we draw the torso - we draw horizontal line, divide the resulting segment into 4 identical parts. We make markings for the location of the head - 1 part, 2 parts - the body, 1 part - the tail.
2. Next, we mark the head, torso, tail with lines. We make markings of the upper and lower fin on the continuation of the line of the head.
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 along the vertical, and we reduce closer to the tail of the division.
4. We outline 7 lines horizontally.
We give a finished look to the scales on the body, rounding each rectangle. Erase vertical lines construction.
5. Draw the eyes and mouth on the head. And in the lower part we paint on the second fin.
6. We draw the eye - blue, the mouth - red, the head - orange.
Scales. We draw the colors of the rainbow sequentially from red to purple horizontal strokes in medium power pencil.
7. Fins and tail. We make a stretch on the fin, repeating its shape from red to orange color. The tail is similar.
8. Blur clean water, a neat rainbow on the body of the fish, head and fins.
Colors become richer and brighter.
9. When it dries, we finalize the scales. We perform tone stretching on each scale. From the line of the separating flake, we compact the tone.
10. We hatch the background with purple, blue, green, yellow vertical strokes.
11. Blur the background with clean water with vertical strokes. We often wash the brush so that the colors do not mix much, leave in some places not blurry pieces of the background for texture.
12. Draw bubbles on a dried sheet. Rinse selectively with clean water.
13. Finished look, add purple and red with a pencil, shading the eyes, fins, tail of the fish. We seal the background by painting algae with pencils.
14. Creative success.
Today I will tell you how to draw a fish step by step. A huge variety is found in the world's oceans: both in fresh water and in 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 ones, 13.7 m long. Fish lovers start them at home in an aquarium and can enjoy the beauty, diversity, 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 outline the pointed muzzle of the fish and lead from it smooth line up and then down, depicting the back. Step two. First, take a hard pencil and draw with a thin line. Consider how the mouth looks in our drawing, and try to draw the same. 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, to the back. Step 5. Let's draw two big fins: lower and upper. We continue to draw everything with a thin line. Step five. Let's show a forked tail and two lower small fins of our fish. Step six. On the head we place a large fish eye, consisting of two circles. Let's make the gills of the fish more rounded. That's it, 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 colored with colored pencils. Good luck in creativity! Write comments below about this lesson and see more.
