Drawing Fish Has Never Been So Easy! 🐡

Fish madness continues! This is the last fish in the row — a fun, purple fella!
I lowered the music this time, so it’s just a tiny background sound. Trying to play with the balance. What do you think? Do you prefer louder music, or is this good? Let me know!

In this voice-over tutorial, I’ll guide you through the entire process, from sketching and coloring to shading, highlights, and those adorable little details! ✨

Little Support 🐠

Feel free to use any colors you like — or if you want to try my version, just download the color palette below and upload it straight into Procreate! You can also download a PNG outline of the fun fish and pop it into your Procreate layers at the bottom. Use it as a guide or trace over it to practice your strokes. 💛

Unique Fish Stamp Brush Set

Or even better, grab my exclusive stamp brush set with sketch – tap on your canva and use this sketch as a guidline for your own sketch for practice, or jump right into coloring. What is even better, I prepared more stamps – 6 sketches and 6 full fish stamps, check them out here!

Practice Sheets and more Brushes

In the Little Art Club Tier, also are waiting some practice sheets and brushes and PNG outline from other fish tutorials 💕

Useful tech details

I used terms like “layers” and “clipping masks” – let me explain what it is, so you can easily use them later:

layers: it is like drawing on “see-through sheets”—one for the body, one for the eyes, etc. They let me color or fix things without messing up the whole drawing. In Procreate, the layers icon looks like two little squares (in the top right corner).
clipping mask – this one keeps my colors inside the lines/shapes. I tap on the particular layer, choose “Clipping Mask,” and anything I draw will only show up where it’s supposed to. Super helpful for clean coloring!
Size of my canvas: 9 x 9 inches, 340 DPI, RGB or Display P3 Color profile -if you have no idea what I’m talking about 😄 no worries—just check out this post and it’ll all make sense!
For more tips “How to change the size of shapes”, check out this post.

Want more fish practice? 🐠

If you’re finding the sketch difficult, try taking baby steps—start with this super easy Goofy Fish tutorial with practice sheet. Or try a charming pink lady and a cute yellow fella. All those, also with bubbles tutorial you can find in this bundle 🧡

Let’s chat!

Enjoy! Let me know how it went and share your thoughts in the comments. Feel free to share your creation also on social media and tag me @zuzana_svobodova_illustration 💖

Copyright notice: While I’m here to inspire you to create, please respect copyright laws. Direct copies of my work for commercial use are not allowed. © Zuzana Svobodová. This artwork is from a children’s book I have been working on.