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Baby shark do-do-do... whether you love it or hate it, sharks, clownfish, and other ocean dwellers are an indelible part of our popular culture. You can draw them all - and more - with these easy fish drawing tutorials.
Jaws, Baby Shark, Shark Week, Bruce from Finding Nemo - sharks are the animals we love to hate. There are plenty of these toothy fish, including great white sharks, megalogons, tiger sharks, stingrays, and hammerheads.
You can use these illustrations to create an entire ocean scene. Go deep sea fishing for swordfish or anglerfish. Or visit a tropical coral reef filled with clownfish, butterflyfish, surgeonfish, angelfish, jellyfish, sponges, seaweed, and seahorses.
Freshwater rivers and lakes also have diverse ecosystems. You can discover catfish, bass, trout, or salmon.
If you don't want to set your sights as high as every fish in the sea, you can start with a fishbowl or aquarium instead. Bettas and goldfish are great choices for these environments. Or draw an ornamental pond filled with koi.
You can also meet some of your favorite aquatic cartoon characters, including Nemo and Dory.
32 Easy Fish Drawing Ideas
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Cartoon Shark
Friend or foe? You can decide as you sketch this smiling shark. Hint: sharks may not always be friendly, but they are vital to the health of ocean ecosystems.
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Easy Fish Bowl
Bring home a new fishy friend in this fishbowl. The bowl itself is round in classic style. It is decorated with sand, rocks, plants, and a clam with a pearl inside. Do you think the angelfish will soon outgrow its bowl?
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Swordfish
The swordfish was named for its long, swordlike snout. It has a long, tapering body and sharply angled fins.
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Easy Clownfish
This common clownfish has stripes on its body and dark bands on its fins. You can give it an anemone to live in in the underwater scene below.
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Tropical Fish
This tropical reef fish is called a copperband butterflyfish. It has a classic angelfish body shape with bold stripes and an eyespot on its dorsal fin.
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Fish Tank
Once you've mastered the fishbowl, above, you might be ready to take on a larger aquarium. This one is filled with sand, rocks, seaweed, coral, a clam, two goldfish, and a classic castle decoration.
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Hammerhead Shark
Hammerheads are one of the strangest-looking sharks. They were so named because their flat heads have eyestalks protruding out from each side.
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Betta Fish
Bettas are a favorite choice for a small fishbowl. These freshwater fish have been bred for their long, flowing fins and flamboyant colors.
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Fish
Once you've mastered the easy fish, below, you can use this cartoon fish as a stepping stone to more complex drawings. This character has large eyes and a smiling mouth.
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Baby Dory from Finding Dory
Baby Dory is irresistibly adorable with her huge eyes and innocent smile. You will fall in love with this drawing even if she can't remember your name. Don't forget to check out the adult Dory below.
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Great White Shark
You might begin to hear heartbeat-like music in a quickening staccato as you draw this toothy shark. Unlike the other sharks on this list, this one is at a unique angle, as if you are viewing the fish from below.
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Dory
Dory is a palette surgeonfish, a tropical reef fish with black stripes on its body and bright triangle-shaped markings on its fins and tail. Don't forget to check out baby Dory, above.
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Seahorse
Seahorses may look strange with their upright postures, horse-like heads, bulging bellies, and curled tails, but they are actually a type of fish.
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Megalodon Shark
Great white sharks are big - prehistoric megalodon sharks are even bigger. This picture includes two modern dolphins for a size comparison.
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Underwater Scene
All of your favorite fish sketches can live in this underwater scene. Here you will find staghorn coral, sea anemones, sponges, seaweed, starfish, jellyfish, and angelfish.
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Tiger Shark
Tiger sharks are so named because of the tiger-like stripes across their backs. They are also agile hunters that keep the coral reef food chain in balance.
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Goldfish
Many goldfish have been bred for unique body structures, such as long fins, bulging cheeks, or protruding lips. You can sketch all of these features on this fish.
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Stingray
Stingrays are a type of flat fish closely related to sharks. Their mouths appear to smile, and their eyes are located on top of their body. They also have winglike fins and a tail with a sharp, poisonous barb at its base.
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Easy Fish
If you want to improve your animal drawing skills, it's good to start with the basics. This simple fish has a teardrop-shaped body, rectangular fins, and a lobed triangular tail.
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Koi Fish
Koi are a type of carp. They are related to goldfish. Bred for beauty, koi display long fins, colorful patterns, and glistening scales.
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Catfish
You won't get catfished by this freshwater fish. Catfish are named for the barbels around their mouths that resemble a cat's whiskers.
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Easy Realistic Goldfish
This realistic goldfish looks as if you could put him in your fishbowl. It has long, elegant fins and scaly details.
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Salmon
Salmon are unique in that they split their time between the ocean and freshwater rivers. In fact, they perform amazing feats, even leaping up waterfalls to return to their birthplace. Find the salmon's freshwater cousin, the trout, below.
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Bass
Bass are another iconic North American freshwater fish. Two common species are largemouth bass and smallmouth bass - which one do you think this is?
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Easy Shark for Kids
Baby sharks have to come from somewhere - their parents are adult sharts like this one. This easy outline shows the shark's teardrop-shaped body and triangular fins.
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Pond
Ponds are often home to ornamental or native freshwater fish, like the one you see swimming in this one. You can also check out other local wildlife, including frogs and dragonflies.
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Nemo
Were you looking for Nemo? Well, you found him! Sketch this striped clownfish with a notable "lucky fin." Then try to find Dory and check out another clownfish, above.
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How to Draw a Rainbow Trout
Trout like this one are iconic of fishing in North America. This classic freshwater fish has a long body and many small fins.
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Angler Fish
Trout like this one are iconic of fishing in North America. This classic freshwater fish has a long body and many small fins.
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Cartoon Seahorse
As you sketch the head of this seahorse, can you imagine where this fish got its name? Pay attention to the curling tail, which the seahorse can use to grab onto things.
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Whale Shark
Whale sharks are the biggest fish in the sea - you can draw this one no matter the size of your paper. Notice that its big mouth has no sharp teeth. Unlike most sharks, whale sharks feast on tiny creatures called plankton.
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Angelfish
Angelfish come in many patterns, but most have the basic shape seen in this drawing. This striped angelfish is modeled after a real-life fish called a Moorish idol.
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