Fish is a rather primitive creature with a characteristic, easily remembered appearance. Even though there are so many species of fish , they all, one way or another, are similar to each other in general terms. They are distinguished only by the size, body shape and type of tail and fins. Therefore, today we will try to draw carp fish. She has the simplest appearance, and it is found to us most often, since it is found in large quantities in rivers. In extreme cases, you can
look at the store. Before you draw the fish, prepare the necessary accessories: paper, pencil and eraser. Position the sheet horizontally and outline two slightly wavy arcs on it: one should bend up, the other down. Thus, you get something like an oval. For symmetry, it can be divided by a horizontal dotted line, so that later it is easier to navigate.
So, the general outline of the body of the carp is ready. The next step in how to draw the fish in stages is the image of its head and other parts. Since the carp has a decent hump on its back (the older the fish, the bigger it is), we highlight this feature of it, and arrange the outlines of the head, going a little down behind the dashed axis. The abdomen of the fish should turn out to be flatter, because in life she likes to lie at the bottom. The head should not be too big. The eye is located directly below the axial dotted line.
The next step in how to draw a fish is a sketch of the tail and fins. The body of the carp upon transition into a strong, large, two-lobed tail, gradually narrows. This fish has enough fins, and they look like a fan. The largest is on the back and remotely resembles a sail. The smallest are located near the gills. There are also pectoral fins: longer ones are closer to the head, and shorter ones are closer to the tail.
Now you know how to draw carp fish. It remains only to erase the auxiliary lines, outline a more confident contour, mark the scales and slightly shade. The remaining fish are drawn according to the same principle. The general structure of their body, the type of tail, the location of the fins, etc. are taken into account. For example, a pike has a more elongated body shape and a long, narrow, toothy head with a large mouth. This “ergonomic” structure allows the pike to camouflage in algae and hunt other fish. Pike for its appearance and some aggressiveness is often called a river crocodile.
If you are thinking how to draw an aquarium fish, it is also important to consider the same features here as when portraying a carp or pike. Even if the fish in its shape resembles a rhombus or a triangle, it still has a tail, fins, a head with bulging (or not so) eyes. To get these water inhabitants better and better, you need to look at them as often as possible, remember the features of each of them. You can watch exotic fish in aquariums of pet stores. If this is not possible, then you can always find a lot of photos and videos on which any creature can be viewed from all sides. Indeed, even in cartoons almost every hand-drawn fish has its own prototype, which means that the artists studied the material and looked for a suitable “candidate” for future characters in the fairy-tale underwater world.