Art Tutorials - How To Draw A Sail Boat

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    Select the soap and a mid-blue for the boat's water,
    Click on the screen to make it blue.
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    ArtBug Soap Tool
  • Choose a pale blue, the felt-pen and a medium sized circle.
    Draw a line for where the water ends and the sky begins.
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    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Choose the bucket tool and click above the pale blue line to make the sky.
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    ArtBug Flood Fill
  • Choose a felt-pen, a big square and a paint for your boat, I chose green.
    Draw a rectangle-ish shape like this for part of your boat.
    Draw the rectangle part in the water and part out of it like I did.
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    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Choose the paint brush or the spray can to draw more paint under the boat.
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    ArtBug Paint Brush
  • Use the wet brush tool to smudge under the boat.
    This part of the boat looks different because it is under water.
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    ArtBug Smudge Tool
  • Select the felt-pen, a square and orange.
    Click on the moon to make the orange turn brown.
    Draw a mast for your boat.
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    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Choose the second smallest circle and white.
    Draw outlines for the sails like this.
    They make a sort of triangle shape next to the mast.
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    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Draw two more lines next to the mast to finish each sail on your boat.
    ArtBug - How to draw a A Sail Boat with ArtBug's Angela Seanor
    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Select the bucket.
    Fill in the sails with white by clicking inside them.
    If they don't fill properly you can use the felt-pen to finish them.
    ArtBug - How to draw a A Sail Boat with ArtBug's Angela Seanor
    ArtBug Flood Fill
  • Choose yellow, the felt-pen and the biggest circle.
    Draw a sun in the sky!
    Ahhh, what a nice day for sailing your boat!
    ArtBug - How to draw a A Sail Boat with ArtBug's Angela Seanor
    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • The wind is in the sails pushing your boat over the water! What a great artist you are!


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