Art Tutorials - How To Draw the Sea

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  • Lets draw a picture of the sea!
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    Click on the page turning tool to turn your page.
    Select the soap and the white and make your picture white.
    Now select a small felt-pen and an an orange ink.
    Click the moon two times to make the orage turn into a light brown.
    Draw some craggy rock shapes. They look a bit like triangles.
    ArtBug - How to draw a the Sea with ArtBug's Angela Seanor
    ArtBug Soap Tool
    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Select the bucket tool and fill your rock shapes with the same brown.
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    ArtBug Flood Fill
  • Time to draw some shadows on the rocks!
    Select the felt-pen again and a small tip.
    Click the moon 2 more times to make the brown darker.
    Now draw some dark brown areas on each rock.
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    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Select the bucket tool and fill the dark areas.
    ArtBug - How to draw a the Sea with ArtBug's Angela Seanor
    ArtBug Flood Fill
  • Select the felt-pen again and a small tip and fill any gaps that are left.
    ArtBug - How to draw a the Sea with ArtBug's Angela Seanor
    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Still using the felt pen, select a dark blue.
    Now draw a line across the page about half-way down.
    Careful not to draw over your rocks!
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    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Select the bucket tool and fill the area above the line.
    This is the sky
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    ArtBug Flood Fill
  • Select a chunky felt-pen.
    Select a light-blue and draw some wavy lines.
    Draw more lines, choosing a different shade of blue for each.
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    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Select the bucket tool and a new shade of blue.
    Click the white part of the picture.
    You have just drawn the sea.
    ArtBug - How to draw a the Sea with ArtBug's Angela Seanor
    ArtBug Flood Fill
  • Use the smudge tool to smudge the water and the edges of the rocks.
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    ArtBug Smudge Tool
  • Select the spraycan tool and white paint.
    Spray some streaks of white.
    This is sea-spray - water blown up off the sea by the wind.
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    ArtBug Spraycan Tool
  • Select the felt-pen tool with a small nib and the white paint.
    Select the star shape.
    Draw some stars in the sky.
    ArtBug - How to draw a the Sea with ArtBug's Angela Seanor
    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Select the felt-pen tool, the largest circle and the white paint.
    Draw the moon.
    ArtBug - How to draw a the Sea with ArtBug's Angela Seanor
    ArtBug Felt Pen Fill
  • Wow! It must be very windy out there look how rough the sea is!


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