Welcome to our new tutorial on how to draw a fish. Fish is a sea creature that is present in seas, oceans, rivers, and wherever there is water, everywhere in the world. Fishes are the world’s most ancient aquatic creatures. They exist earlier than dinosaurs. They breathe gills using a specific organ instead of lungs.
They also possess a decent sensory organ to behave like radar. They have a special trait, they can change sex during life. There are some tropical fish such as Mangrove Rivulus that can live for weeks without altering their metabolism. School is the term used for the aggregations of fish.
Few interesting facts:
- Fishes are cold-blooded which enables them to alter their temperature in line with environmental variations.
- Throughout the world, there are nearly 31,500 species of fishes.
- They vary in sizes, from tiny 8milimeteres to the enormous 16-meter whale sharks.
- Fishes possess good color vision like humans.
- These animals react to pain and fear.
How to Draw a Fish for Kids
There are thousands of methods to draw a fish since there is a huge no of species founds. We will draw the extremely common shape of fish universally used, that is pointed front body ending with the fins. You can use your imagination as per your observations. Begin drawing with these easy steps of drawing a fish and drawing a cartoon fish. Always employ an eraser and colors of your preference, pastel, crayons, oil color, whatever you think is convenient.
In this step by step tutorial, all the images describe with a clear explanation. Stepwise following them you will be able to easily draw your fish. Begin with light lines or guidelines since they can be erased later in order to finish the drawing. Let’s proceed with the tutorial, take paper and pencil.
You can also learn to draw a dolphin, crab, mermaid, etc.
How to Draw a Fish step by step
Step 1: Draw the body of fish with pointed on front and bulky in the middle.
Step 2: At the end of the body draw fins using M shape.
Step 3: Draw the gills cover, with gills, eyes, and mouth.
Step 4: Above the body draw lines for the pectoral fins and the torso fins on the side.
Step 5: Add curvy lines in between the drawn fins line.
Step 6: Draw bottom fins using curved shapes and also shape the torso fins.
Step 7: Draw lines at the end of fins and complete them.
Step 8: Cover the whole body of the fish with scales by small curves.
How to Draw a Cartoon Fish for kids:
Step 1: Draw 2 small overlapping circles with the pupil.
Step 2: From the second eye draw a large curve becoming a straight line.
Step 3: From the first eye draw the bottom part of the fish.
Step 4: Draw the mouth of your fish.
Step 5: Draw fins at the end and at the top.
Step 6: Draw lines of the fins.
Step 7: Add scales randomly on the body.
Step 8: Make small circles in the background for water bubbles.
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