Drawing made easy : learn to create stylised sealife

1. INTRODUCTION: To be able to draw is a learned skill and not something god gifted. All you need is some practice. By following a few tips and techniques, you can learn to draw almost anything. In this class. I will show you how to draw any kind of see like all you need is a pencil and some people, and a lot of enthusiasm. Hi, I'm cheerfully. In this class, I will explain you my method of creating some interesting and dynamic shapes and then turn them into our beautiful fish. I will also show you some of the driving principles in character design and then use them to draw some other secrets just like an octopus, sea horse and assumptions. I will also demonstrate my method of coloring them and then turn them into a complete sea life illustration. These also a bonus class at the end. If you want to see how to use the traditional methods for your different projects. You can use these illustrations for different projects. Like an animal illustration for the children's book, as an element for motifs, for surface pattern design, illustration on POD sites, or making stickers and greeting cards and much more. 2. RESOURCES: I'm providing this PDF which I'm drawing is off see animals showing an article features, then references of various species of fish and other sea life. This one reference is to understand the perspective while drawing sheets. As I am no drink snails. In this class, there is a link to my Pinterest board. There are boats for various animals, which are further categorized into small groups like this. Shell, alga and flora see animals. I'm also providing you a brush set along with the first is the drying. It is very controlled brush. You can draw and write as well with one brush. Next is the inking brush, which is a pressure sensitive and it gives a nice line weight. And can we use this term brush also? This is the low opacity Eraser. It's very convenient if you're drawing in Procreate. Then comes this inking brush controlled. It's a bit different from the earlier one, as it is more controlled than this rectangular stamp brush. Nice to add some rectangular highlights. Then is the medium nozzle brush, which is the procreates native brush under spray paints. 3. CLASS PROJECT: All the drawing rooms, practice them and Rossi elements, and then come up with your own composition of silence. At the end. Create your own Under the Sea Life scenery and posted under the project section below. 4. CREATING SHAPES: Let's create some interesting shapes. First. For that open Procreate, and create a full-size document. This is the brush set I'm providing in the resources section. My method of creating interesting shapes start with the drying of simple, boring geometrical shapes like circle, triangle, and scared. Then start manipulating these shapes. As for the circle, tango something which is round and has soft edges, like ovals, ellipses being shapes. Also, a simple teardrop shape can be converted into something roundish. You can also join two or more shapes together, and the resulting shape will be more organic and natural. Same thing goes with the triangle. Start with changing the length and the angle of the sides of triangle. Then change the straight lines into Carbonite. Start creating variation among all the three sides of a triangle. Also practice joining the different shapes together, as we did in the circular shapes. Then comes the square shape. Draw rectangles, trapezium, diamonds, and all kinds of quadrilaterals change state lines into curved lines. Also tried to join two or more shapes together. As a resulting shape will be more interesting than the singular one. There are also spaces left between these shapes. So draw the outlines around the edges of these shapes. Then you will come up with a new and differentiate every day. Now, let's fill the whole page with these organic shapes. Then I will show you how to convert these shapes into some beautiful fish. 5. FISH DRAWING PART 1: I have selected one shape from our previous lesson and then duplicate it a few times to show you some variation among the different characters or fish created with a single shape. To draw any particular subject or character, it is very important to understand the anatomy of that particular subject. In our case, that is the fish. So let's have a look at the basic anatomy of fish. Eyes, mouth, and then near the mouth or the guilt flips. And very near to the slits are the pectoral fins, which is the paired fins, means it is present on both sides of later line of the fish that are part of the dorsal fin. And then at the end is the caudal fin or tail fin. At the bottom of the body of the fish or the interfering and pelvic pain which exists as paired fins. Now we have enough knowledge about the an oatmeal fish. So let's draw it. I will start with the mouth from this site. I'm drying arc for the mouth. Then draw eyes above them out with the people. Near the arc of the mouth, draw gill slits, and then comes the pectoral fin, which can be bigger or smaller, as this is a stylized representation of the fish. So I will note draw pelvic fin and endorphins. Although they are present in almost all the fish. But sometimes they are rudimentary and are not visible. I'm drawing an arc as a guidelines for the dorsal fin. Then draw small lines inside the shape and join those lines with small arcs. Then comes the tail fin. Again, I will draw guidelines for that. Then smile lines inside the shape and smile arcs joining those lines. Whenever drawing shapes like this, which are very repetitive, trying to add variation, draw them small, large, medium, or very small, or very large. Now for the next variation, I will start mouth from here. I will draw open mouth this train. And this is the lower lip. And above the mouth and the eyes with pupil. Then gill slits will be near the mouth. Then the pectoral fin. This time for the pectoral fin, I'm drawing a triangular shape. There could be a lot of variation. Here I am showing you a few variations of these triangular shapes just by changing the length of these lines of a triangle. It will give you completely different look every time. Adding these two small lines show the joining of these pectoral fins to the body of the fish. Now for the dorsal fin, draw S-shaped curve. Let's exaggerate it a bit. We're drying it bigger. Now for the tail fin, I would run something very similar to the pectoral fin. Draw some small lines inside these shapes. These are like the veins of these pins. Whenever drawing lines like this, try to create every line with some different angle. Otherwise, it will look so boring as the angle will be same. Every time you draw. This time. Start mouth from the base of the shape. Along arc for the mouth. Then big eyes with pupils inside. Many of the mouth will be the gill slits. And then comes big pectoral fin. Wavy lines at the base of the same wavy lines for the dorsal fin as well as for tail fin. Try to have some kind of similarity among all the things. If you're drawing a particular character here. Again, the radiation is very important. So try to create these wavy lines as small, medium, or large. Variation can be created among the different shapes, sizes, and even the color. The next character I will draw out quarter view. For that first, I will draw the guidelines for the placement of facial features. Are you explained everything about growing facial features on animal head in my earlier class. Row stylist and expressive animal heads. If you want to learn more about that, I would suggest to see their class. Then from the central line rather dorsal fin. This time I'm creating different shape for the dorsal fin. Then draw gill slits on both sides of the mouth and drop at all fits. In this quarter view, all the paired fins will be visible from the front. Both pictorial as well as pelvic fins. Find the position at the bottom of the fish body and try to draw them similar to the pectoral fin. Also adjust location and size of these widths. 6. FISH DRAWING PART 2: For the next variation, I will change the position of mouth. This point the n will be the mouth of the fish and I will draw a beak like mouth. Dry eyes above this j. And this is also a quarter view. So all the paired fins will be visible. This time draw dorsal fin like some cloud cheap location for the peptide roofing is near the mouth and Rob both App2 phase. Rather farther, one, little smaller in size to add some depth to your drink. Now for the next variation, I'm using the same pointed n as the mount and draw the eyes above them out. This is the quarter view, so both paired fins will be visible. Here. I will change the shape and placement for the pelvic fin. Then draw dorsal fin, pectoral fins on both sides of the body. Now, let's add some texture or body max to the fish, starting with this literal line which divides the top and the bottom part of the fish body. So in the first version, the spots, which can be circular or some irregular shape. This is also a color difference between the top and the bottom of the fish body. In this version, I will add some curvy lines only on the lower part of the fish body. And some spots on the upper part create some variation in the size of the circles. Draw them big, small, and medium. Also draw them in groups in place of scattered all over the body as it will look more natural. Here, I'm drawing some irregular shapes as the body sports. Now for the next version, I'm doing sports with holes inside. So there are numerous variations only within a circular shape. So try to create as much as you can. Now in the next version, I will add some scales over the fish body. They can be C-shaped, V-shaped. We can be scattered or in groups. Actually all English alphabet can be used as scales for this kind of stylized drawing. Here, I'm showing you some variation of English alphabets, like alphabet B, C, The Blues. Alphabet P. Here, I'm trying some crisscross lines as the scales over the fish body. Now for the next radiation, I will draw stripes, which can be horizontal. What curvy, wavy, or zigzag lines. You can also change the thickness of these lines as I'm doing here. Now, let's create the fish syllabus for all these six different shapes. So fish, which we have created, this will clear all our doubts about its shape. Using this inking brush, first row outline of the fish, and then drag and drop black color inside this shape. I will repeat the same process for all of them. Silhouette is something we should confirm the subject matter. So check everything. Check not only the black portion, but also all the negative spaces around these shapes. If you're happy with your silhouette, then that shape is ready for your next step, which is the coloring part. 7. FISH COLOURING PART 1: I have selected this fish, which I want for my final illustration. Duplicate it to a new low, re-scale it with transform tool, then change the blend mode of this layer to multiply and lower the opacity. Create a new layer below this layer where we will do archiving. But first we will select the color palette. I select this red color first. Then go to the harmony and find its complimentary color. I also need darker and lighter colors. So first, select the color, go to classic mode and decrease the brightness and increase the saturation. Move the hue slider away from sunlight color, which is yellow. For the lighter color, select the color first, increase the brightness, decrease the saturation a bit, and move the hue slider towards the sunlight. I need two more colors and less saturated dark blue color and a light yellow color for highlights. Select one more light turquoise color for sclera portion of ice. Although you can choose any other color for this. Now for coloring, I will select create color and using this inking brush. First, outline the fish body, and then fill this with red color using drag and drop method. Now make a new layer above the body layer. And draw this pictorial frame which is above the body in this profile view and fill with blue color. Next, make a new layer below the body layer and fill the other two friends with same blue color. With drag and drop method of coloring. Make one more new layer above all the layers, then draw and fill the sclera or phase with light turquoise color. Now duplicate this layer and change the color of the upper layer to black. Reduce the size to make it into pupil. Duplicate this turquoise layer once more and fill the lower layer with black. This time, increase its size and turning it into eyelids, eyelashes. 8. FISH COLOURING PART 2: Now add shadows and lights. First go to the body layer, make a new layer above, then clip it to the base layer. Choosing this medium nozzle brush, which is the native brushes, procreate under spray paints and according to the direction of light and shadows to the bottom of the body of fish using darker shade of red color. Then select light color of red lights to the body in the same layer. Now, make new layer above the pectoral fin base layer. Clip it to the layer below. Add darks and lights to this frame using darker and lighter colors. In the same way, and darks and lights to the other friends also. Also add shadows and lights to the sclera of tie in the same year. And highlights to the eyes as small white dots with inking brush in a newly now draw facial features, make a new layer. And using this blue color and inking brush, draw an eye out for more. In the same way, using same color and dry English. Ra small wins inside the fence. Now in a new layer using light gray color and inking brush, draw sports on the fish body. Then change the blend mode of this layer to overlay. Again in a new layer using dark gray color and inking brush, draw sports. And this time change the blend mode to collarbone or darker during the opacity of this layer as you like. Now in the next step and highlights using light yellow color in the new layer above. Draw lines with drying brush. I'm using English as it has some texture. Also. Now change the blend mode of this layer to add and reduce the opacity as you like. At the end, if we weren't happy with your coloring, you can group the layers and flatten the image. As in this way, blend modes will stay as such. 9. DRAWING OCTOPUS: Before jumping into drying octopus, let's have a look on its anatomy. They have big head and eyes on both sides of it. They have eight arms and tentacles with the circus under site. They also have this funnel like structure on both sides of my mouth. I do have this rubber octopus. It is good if you have some toy animals like this, as it will be a great help to understand the 3D anatomy of any day. Now, let's start with a big oval forehead and one more oval for phase two curves as the guidelines for drying facial features. Drove funnels at both sides of the face. Then draw curvy lines for tentacles. Now, I will show you how to add twists and turns to the tentacles. First, draw some curvy lines like this. Then row stayed small lines at all the events of this line like this. Now draw parallel lines to the lines starting from these small lights. Draw these lines at every moment. Now you have a beautiful drain of ID, but now let's draw something similar but in 3D. So draw the same kind of curvy line first, then draw one more line exactly parallel to this one. And this will be the top portion of the tube we are drying. Now. Again, draw small lines at all the events. Then draw these parallel lines to above two lines starting from the small lines. This will be the side of the tube. Complete the small quadrilateral at the end of this tube. Now, let's draw some real tentacles. First, I will erase the drain using low opacity and then draw dark and crisp lines. Over there are flights. Raw facial features first and then row tentacles. First to draw two parallel lines for one tentacle. Then this will be the top portion of it. There are circuits present at the lower side of each tentacle. They are in two rows like this. And this is how I will draw top and bottom portion of tentacles. They are like tubes, note some squarish kind. Therefore only top or bottom will be visible. Draw a small line at the bend, then a line starting from here and ends up somewhere here. This is the lower part with the circus. Now let's draw one more. First, draw two parallel lines, then small lines, and the events. Then draw parallel lines to the above lines and create a space for surplus. I will draw all the tentacles in the same way. 10. DRAWING SEAHORSE: Before drying seahorse, lets have a look on its anatomy. They have this now like Mount than pectoral fins, dorsal fin and prehensile tail. Now let's draw a seahorse this time. Start with the line of action. Line of action will add movement and dynamism to draw this s-shaped line. Then add body parts over this and oval forehead. And one for dorsal portion. Draw a line outside to join all these shapes together. It Is it a bit using low opacity and draw over those flights? Draw a little line to divide the body into outer and inner portion. Draw a guideline for the dorsal fin, then draw the draw small lines and then curvy line joining these lines. This is stylized representation of seahorse so you can exaggerate any body part as you want. Draw form lines inside the belly portion. That is to draw this form lines inside any shape, draw some shape, and then draw ellipses inside the shape. The direction of ellipses will give nice formula. Now, let's draw one more seahorse, starting with the line of action. Draw shapes for body parts. Join them, we then outline, then draw facial features inside the head. This time, I will draw a funnel light mode. It Is it a bit and then draw again over the rough lines. Draft form lines insight. This time I will change the shape of dorsal fin, pectoral fin. I will raise it once more to see clear drying and redraw with this. Usually I erase and redraw my drain three to four times until I'm satisfied. When drawing a final, draw an oval with one side. Then draw another oval over the first with one side open, but in the opposite direction. Then draw lines around the ovals to complete the shape. 11. DRAWING SHELLS: Let's start drawing with a coordinator. Then draw a spiral inside it. Now you distort option under the transform tool and distort this triangle and then lighten it up with low opacity, erase and redraw, you will see a shell drawn in perspective. Then add form lines in every layer option. Same way, draw another quadrilateral. Draw ellipses inside the shape. Playing this, lighten up the drawing with the eraser, then redraw this S-shaped lines over the ellipsis. Let's draw one more drying overall, mark the center and then reform lights. You can change the position of the center, then draw form lines around it. 12. DRAWING SEA CORALS AND PLANKTONS PART 1: Food, drink, corals and plantains. I will use inking brush as it is very precious sensitive, and it gives a nice line with a lot of variation in language. For this lesson, I will use colors directly in place of black color. So let's start with this color. Start with a little pressure and draw curvy lines in a mileage. Use different colors in different layers. Now, create a new layer above this base layer and create a clipping mask to the layer below. After that, select the darker version of this base color and using medium nozzle brush, add shade near the end of this bunch. Then in the same way, like the lighter color and add light to the same bunch at the tips of these curvy lines in the same year. My method of selecting dark and light color is the same as I have explained in fish coloring lesson, I will repeat the same process for the other two colors in their respective layers. I'm adding white spots over the whole illustration with inking brush in a new layer, above all the layers. Now, in the next version, I will draw these curvy lines using three different colors in three different layers. And then add darks and lights using medium nozzle brush in the clips list. Method of color selection is same as I have already explained. In the next step, I will select this light gray color and draw some sports only at the tips of these shapes. Then change the blend mode of this layer to overlay. In the same way, I will select the darker gray color Ross on sports, but this time change the blend mode to color, burn or darken and decrease the opacity of this layer. Now, grouped together all these layers, then one more element is ready to be used for our final illustration. For next element, I will take this darker blue color and decrease the size of inking brush. Now, draw small lines like this and may call bunch of tweaks. This bunch can be used as a single element itself. This also one more version of this. For that in a new layer, select this red color and draw some code like structures at the tips of these lines. Now add shadows and lights with medium nozzle brush in the clipped layer. Method of selecting these colors is the same. Now N highlights inner layer above all. For highlights, draw any kind of sports, comas, state lines or curved lines. There is one more version of this. Instead of coal black structures. Add dots all over using this yellow color in the layer with inking brush. Then add shadows and lights in the same way as we did earlier. Also an highlights and then group together all these layers. One more element is ready. For the next version, draw a wavy thick shapes like this in three different colors in their respective layers. Then add shadows and lights to these shapes, as we did earlier using medium nozzle brush in the clip list. I'm adding dark shades and tints at the tips. Method of selection of color is the same. Now in the next step, add light gray spots in a new layer above all, and change the blend mode of the layer to overlay. Then draw sports with the dark gray color in a new layer above all others. And change the blend mode to collarbone or darken, which you like the most. 13. DRAWING SEA CORALS AND PLANKTONS PART 2: The next element, I will select this green color and draw a stem and then its branches and the right angle to the mainstream. For the next plant draws time and branches, add some blue and green. Now for the third plant, draw strings and little thicker branches. Also add dots to all these branches. Here is one more version, drying such right angled branches and join them at right angle to the next branch. It will look like some desert cactus. The next day. And darks and lights to all the plants in the similar way as I have explained earlier. Now, in the first plant with the white color, draw dots, comas, straight lines, or curved lines. As a highlight. You can use this stamp brush to draw these rectangles. This will add a nice texture to the whole first row spots all over the plant. Then use Liquify tool with the Expand option on this green layer first. And then over the yellow layer. It will give some distorted look to the whole plant. It looks organic and natural. Now for the other version, just liquefy tool, but this time use Crystal option to distort it in a different way. It will add a nice little texture to the outline of the branches. Now to this laughed land, add white highlights. Now I will draw some policies for select the color and using this inking brush, draw stitches like this. It'll be the same process two more times to different colors in their different layers. Then add shadows and lights, as we did earlier using medium nozzle, brush in the clip plays to their respective basically is the next step. Row centers inside the polyps using even more darker shade in a new layer above the base layer. Now, make a new layer above the center layer and clip it to the layer below. Choose the darkest color and add the shadows inside centers using medium nozzle brush. Repeat the same process with the other two polyps. For the next 2. First change the background color to this blue color and add white spots inside any of the centers of the politics. I will draw two more versions of polyps. Well, my method of growing in coloring them is seen. Here. I have changed their shapes using three different colors in three separate layers. Then add darks and lights, and then add the highlights. 14. DRAWING SEA CORALS AND PLANKTONS PART 3: A few more examples for plantains. This time I'm using this dark blue color. For these underwater plants. First, I will decrease the size of inking brush and draw a bunch of stems like rosemary. Now using lighter blue color draw leads to these branches. Here I'm using inking brush control. Draw strokes like this. Draw variation among those torques. Row commas, V-shaped leaves, or even increase or decrease the distance between the leaves. A little change in the shape of a leaf will also give completely new version of. Now, let's draw some other colors which can be used as fillers. Draw ovals with the holes in the center. Or draw small thick lines like small waves. Roll something like eyes, and eyelashes. Draw different kinds of stars. And then add Santos to this task. Draw some irregular shapes and then play with liquify to lower them to create different textures to the outline of these shapes. Let's draw some corals. First, draw a shape and fill it with color. Then select a darker color and draw inside this shape to create some marble effect with lines only. In the next version, Draw a Shape, Fill Color, and read darker color, draw wavy lines inside to create different texture. In one more version, I'm drawing an oval, fill with color, mark center, and then draw form lines with varying line weight inside. Let's draw some rocks. First, draw a shape and then fill it with color. Add some cracks inside the small rocks. And add sports with darker color, and change the blend mode to darken or collarbone. You can change the opacity or draw sports with lighter color, then change the blend mode to overlay or screen. In one more version, draw a shape first, and then draw lines inside this chip with darker and lighter colors. Then using Liquify tool, using pinch, push or Xpand option to turn these lines into a beautiful marble. Draw some bubbles, also. Draw a circle first, and then fill it with aqua color. Then using medium nozzle brush as an eraser, erase the centers of the circle till get a nice transition of column. Now, small highlights with the white color using inking brush. Duplicate this layer. Gray scale the size of bubbles. This way create more bubbles with varying sizes. 15. CREATING BACKGROUND: For our final illustration, first, I will create a background. For the background, create a gradient with different shades of blue. Here I'm using the eraser as my brush, starting with the darkest shade of blue from the bottom of the document. Then keep on adding lighter versions of blue above one another. Then apply Gaussian blur up to 50 per cent as it will give unpredictable transition to the cooler. Next, I will create a shape which I want for my final illustration and fill it with white color. Now, bring this shape layer below the gradient layer, clip gradient layer to the layer below. Now using Transform tool, adjust the color inside the shape. Now draw some white colored ways in a new layer, which is also clipped to the shape using inking brush. Now change the blend mode of this layer to overlay and reduce the opacity. Using mediums of gray paint brush as an eraser. It is white layer with a bit. It will give very interesting effect to the background. Add few more waves, enter top of the shape. This time I will use Lasso tool and draw some veins like this. Here. I'm drawing this in a new layer and then fill color in a new layer. I will repeat the same thing two more times with different colors in their different layers. Then change the blend mode of these layers to darken color been screen or overlay as you like. Or just don't use any. You can erase them using same medium nozzle brush as an eraser. In the next step, create some silhouette of the sea life. In the background. Here, I'm drying corals using blue color and inking brush. Although they won't show much in the final illustration. But it will add nice depth to the fenestration, decrease the opacity of this layer. I will also add some silhouette of dolphins in a differently. For the dolphin, start with the curb line at body and hampered the head. They are very small as they are too far from the front. Draw a white colored silhouette of how predictable fish in the top, in front of all the leaves. Later on, I will duplicate this fish and fit inside the fenestration. 16. COMPOSITION: The composition part, I have already copied and pasted the elements which we have created earlier. And now we'll adjust them according to the composition. I just make sure that the colors look cohesive and interesting inside the composition. Sometimes I rotate them vertically and horizontally, or even change the colors. Cut them them. Usually I use three to four elements inside one composition. I have added a lot of bubbles by duplicating the layers, change their positions, and pinch these layers altogether to make our group. I have duplicated this white silhouette of small fish about seven to eight times and then fit them inside the illustration to show some movement. They are the part of the front node, the background. So keep them in the upper-left. Then pinch all these white fish. I have added white dots all over the world to make the whole illustration more cohesive. And the last, I also add noise layer at the top of everything and about seven to 8% is enough. No illustration is ready. 17. BONUS CLASS: This is the sketchbook which I prefer most as it has nice texture and nicely, and is good for pencil, charcoal and even light washes. I use these Staedtler Luna watercolor pencils. They're very smooth and vibrant. You also use this brushstroke gouache colors as they are very creamy and saturated. As for brushes, I don't prefer any particular brand. I need round brushes. First, I draw in a sketchbook using these colored pencils. I draw a lot of trips, then select a few and redraw them again and turn them into fish and other animals, as I have shown in my drawing fish lesson. Then I select fishes and using this light box, redraw them on separate people. Then I colored them using gouache paints. Usually I create many elements which I further use for my other projects. Sometimes I print these teats again on photo paper and cut them into stickers like this. Then use these tickers as such in scrapbooks. And they also helped me to create a beautiful composition. Then I make illustrations. Finally, using these compositions. So they are very helpful in handy. I also scanned these sheets, then bring them into Photoshop, remove the background, and make surface patrons from these elements. I like to use them as emoji for social media also, as they are completely handmade and exclusive. So having a set like this are very useful if you are making different kinds of projects. 18. FINAL THOUGHTS: Thank you so much for taking your time to learn with me in this class. I hope you must have picked some tips and tricks to be used in your own rights. I just can't wait to see your amazing questions. So don't forget to upload them in the project section. If you have any queries, then post them in the discussion below. And I will look at them as soon as I can. If you want to stay updated on my work, then don't forget to follow me here on Skillshare to see my upcoming classes. I hope you enjoyed this class and I'm looking forward to seeing you in the next one.