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How to Draw a Seahorse? 4 min read
Arts and crafts projects help develop various executive functions, such as memory and self-control. Learning to master various skills helps kids develop self-esteem and confidence. They also help them cope with stressful situations. So if your child loves drawing and coloring, then give them ideas to do it better. This article explores some of the various benefits of art-making for kids.
Advantages of Art for Kids
- Encourage them to draw pictures of big and small objects, as well as rough and near ones.
- Aside from fine motor skills, drawing helps children develop eye-hand coordination. This is especially important in sports and recreational situations.
- Your child may not yet understand the concepts of distance and size comparison, but drawing provides the perfect opportunity to develop these skills in a deliberate manner.
- Creating physical representations of your child’s thoughts and feelings helps build confidence.
- Drawing can help build self-esteem. It will also make him or her feel more inspired and motivated.
- Creative drawing helps children develop critical thinking and creativity.
- Creating a specific drawing task can help your child develop problem-solving skills.
- Learning to master various skills helps kids develop confidence. They also help them cope with stressful situations.
Let’s draw a Seahorse today!
What is a Seahorse?
A seahorse is a small marine fish with a rounded head and a tubular snout. It has bony armor and an upright posture. Seahorses have rounded heads. Seahorses have a shape that resembles that of a horse’s head. They can change their color in a few minutes. Seahorses have unique characteristics. The male has a brood pouch. They hatch their eggs in a pouch on their belly. The male then expels them with contractions.
- They eat almost constantly. Their bodies can digest up to 3,000 brine shrimp a day.
- Land based horses can use their tails to chase flies, but they can also use them to fight over territory and food.
- Seahorses can also use their tails to anchor themselves in a storm.
- These little creatures have the ability to camouflage themselves using their bodies.
- They can also hide their bodies under their fur or their skin.
- There are plenty of predators that can kill these animals.
- They are also a threat to humans.
- These are fish with swim bladders, gills, and fins.
- They have unique markings on their bodies.
- These animals have eyes that work independently of each other.
- They can also keep one eye looking behind them so they can keep track of predators.
Materials needed to draw the Seahorse
White drawing paper – To draw and color.
Pencil – Drawing with a pencil helps, making corrections by erasing and re-drawing.
Eraser – To erase any mistakes if any.
Black Marker – After the drawing is done, black markers can be used to make the outline.
Crayons – To add color to the drawing.
Follow our step-by-step tutorial covering how to draw a seahorse.
We’ve included all of the steps in detail so that the process is easy to follow.
So, let’s get started!
The collage above shows each step of the process so you know what your seahorse drawing should look like at each stage.
Instructions
Tip: Make sure you don’t press to hard on the paper when you draw your pencil lines so that you can correct your mistakes with an eraser as you go through the tutorial.
Step 1: Draw the Body Shape
Using light pencil marks, draw a long medium oval for the body as guidelines for the shape of your Seahorse.
Step 2: Create the Head Shape
Again, use light pencil marks to draw a smaller oval shape which will be used to create the head later.
Step 3: Draw the Tail Shape
Then, using light pencil marks again, draw another small oval shape at the end of the medium oval.
Step 4: Connect the Head with the Body and Tail
A. Draw a curved line on the right side.
B. Draw a curved line on the left side.
Step 5: Draw the Face
Draw two curved lines at the end of small oval.
Step 6: Draw the Eye
Draw a small circle inside the head to create the eye.
Step 7: Draw the Snout
Draw two curved lines at the end of the lines you created in the step 5. Then connect them with a two circles, one inside another.
Step 8: Finish the Tail
Draw two curved lines on the top of your last small oval guidelines.
Step 9: Erase Your Pencil Marks
Erase any unwanted pencil marks.
Step 10: Draw a Dorsal Fin
Draw two curved lines in the middle of seahorse’s body. Then connect them with a vertical reverse “s” shaped line in between.
Step 11: Create the Body Segments
A. Create a head segment by drawing a zigzag shape just behind the eye. Then create a front body segment by drawing a long curved line staring from the head and finishing by the end of the body.
B. Create the dorsal spines by drawing a long zigzag shape all the way from head to the middle of a tail.
Step 12: Outline Your Seahorse
Draw darker pencil lines to the outline of your drawing to make the drawing more clear.
Step 13: Shade the Eye Using Your Pencil.
Add color to the eye by shading with your pencil.
Step 14: Finish the Front Body Segment
Next, add several horizontal lines to the front body segment.
Step 15: Finish the Dorsal Spines
Add several horizontal lines to the dorsal spines.
Step 16: Finish the Dorsal Fin
Add several small lines to the dorsal fin.
Step 17: Add Shading
Finally, use your pencil to add shading and bring your seahorse drawing to life.
Congratulations!
You have just finished drawing a seahorse.
Don’t worry if your seahorse drawing isn’t perfect the first time, the more you practice the better you will get!
We hope you had fun and that our tutorial helped you learn something new today.
Try out your newly-learned skills on different sea creature like an octopus or a whale and have fun practicing until you master the art of drawing!
