How to Draw a Fish

How to Draw a Siamese Fighting Fish Step by Step!
Draw a Betta Fish. A Siamese Fighting Fish is an awesome fish to draw. This art lesson uses a photo of a Siamese Fighting Fish as refenence and shows how to draw and paint it.

Smart Art Institute Online Lesson MT143 - Categories: Realistic Animals, Fine Art School, Graphic Design School

How to Draw a Cartoon Fish by Step. A Cartoon Fish is an awesome fish to draw!

Smart Art Institute Online Lesson MT130 - Categories: Cartoons, Graphic Design Schools Prep., Kids Art Classes

How to Draw a Shark Step by Step. A shark is an awesome fish to draw. This art lesson uses a photo of a shark as refenence and shows how to draw and paint it.

Smart Art Institute Online Lesson MT134 - Categories: Realistic Animals, Fine Art School, Graphic Design School

How to Draw a Clown Fish
Many animated movies in recent years have starred cartoon Clown fish! Possibly the most famous cartoon fish are from Disney/Pixar's "Finding Nemo" movie, which featured a wide cast of characters including the clown fish Nemo and his father Marlin, the forgetful Dory and Bruce the shark. Disney also created another famous cartoon swimmer – Flounder, Ariel's sidekick from "The Little Mermaid."

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Maybe you would like to create your own cartoon fish drawing!

Many animated movies in recent years have starred cartoon fish! Possibly the most famous cartoon fish are from Disney/Pixar's "Finding Nemo" movie, which featured a wide cast of characters including the clown fish Nemo and his father Marlin, the forgetful Dory and Bruce the shark. Disney also created another famous cartoon swimmer – Flounder, Ariel's sidekick from "The Little Mermaid."

Not every famous movie fish is from Disney, either. "Shark Tale" included a diverse underwater cast, including Will Smith's Oscar and Robert De Niro and Jack Black's shark characters.

Drawing cartoon fish will let you do other things as well.

You don't have to limit your skills to drawings based on famous movies. With these steps, you could learn how to draw fish for a children's mural that is colorful and fun! Several sports teams have aquatic mascots, from marlins to catfish to sharks. You can use the same techniques used for cartoon fish to create drawings inspired by these mascots!

You can also learn how to draw a realistic fish.

Just because you learn how to draw a clown fish, it doesn't mean you have to draw Nemo! From an aquarium aficionado wanting to create a portrait of a favorite pet to a sportsman wanting to show off "the one that got away" and everything in-between, there are any number of ways you can use the ability to draw realistic pictures of fish.

Would you like to learn how to draw koi fish?

If you're wanting to create an artistic fish drawing that will add something to any room, you might want to consider drawing koi. These ornamental carp are famed for their distinctive look, and are often kept in ponds as a living outdoor decoration. Depending on which variety of koi you want to draw, distinctive features could include scales, a long dorsal fin and the flowing strokes you'll need to learn how to draw a koi fish tail.

If you'd like to learn how to draw a flying fish, your fish artwork will need to take wing!

To draw a flying fish, you'll need the same basic skills you use to draw any realistic fish, but you'll have to take your drawing one step further. Flying fish are unusual for their extremely large pectoral fins, which allow them to leap out of the water and glide over the surface.  These fish can typically glide half the length of a football field at a time! While technically fins, these appendages look a lot like wings, so learning to draw a flying fish will be very much like learning to put wings on your fish drawing!

Taking the subject in a different direction, maybe you would like to learn how to draw bread and fish basket artwork.

The bread and fish basket is an important piece of Christian religious imagery, inspired by the story of Jesus feeding a multitude using only five loaves of bread and two fish. A drawing or painting like this can serve as a decorative reminder of God's supernatural provision, and can serve as an inspiration to those who see it.

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step by step drawing lesson.