How to draw a tropical fish with this how-to video and step-by-step drawing instructions. Easy animals to draw for beginners and kids.
Please see the drawing tutorial in the video below
You can refer to the simple step-by-step drawing guide below
Step 1
Start sketching tropical fish by drawing eyes. Use four curved lines to enclose the rounded rectangle, with another small line representing the eyelids.
Step 2
Draw an oval within an oval inside the eye. Shade between them to indicate students. Then, use a curved line twice as long as itself to outline the fish’s characteristic triangular beak. At the corner of the mouth, draw a short curved line.
Step 3
Extend the upper part of the line to form the upper dorsal fin. Extend another line below the beak to form the bottom part of the mouth.
Step 4
Continue drawing the bottom line to form the belly and lower fin of the fish. From each of the two fins, extend a curved line. They outline the top and bottom of the tail.
Step 5
Connect the top and bottom of the tail using a wavy curved line. Draw a curved line behind the eyes, separating the head from the rest of the body.
Step 6
Draw a shorter curve in the body. From there, extend a curved line and duplicate it back to enclose the irregular rounded shape of the pectoral fin. Fin texture with short curves.
Then, extend a curved line below the body of the fish. Connect it to the front of the anal fin by a series of short lines that meet at jagged points. This is the pelvic fin.
Step 7
Draw the characteristic oval spot on the fish’s dorsal fin. Then tie the base of the tail with two curved lines, enclosing a stripe. Textured tail and ventral fins with curves.
Step 8
Draw wavy curves on the dorsal and anal fins.
Step 9
Wrap the butterfly fish with stripes of the same name as it. Use pairs of long curves.
Your tropical fish sketch is done. You can color bronze butterfly fish in a realistic way, as you can see in our illustration.
In the wild, the copper butterflyfish has a silvery white body with orange or yellow stripes. We have made the silver part of the fish purple, because they can appear in deep water. The eye spots on the dorsal fin are black and some stripes have a black border.
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