How to Draw a Blue Tang

Step 1: Eye and pointy snout

Draw a huge eye. Start left of it, draw a pointy snout, and stop below the eye. Add a smile.

Tip Keep the eye left of the middle, so the tail has room.

Step 2: Fat egg body

From the snout, draw a rainbow over the eye to the thin tail end. Draw the belly the same way.

Step 3: Bow-tie tail

From the back's end, draw a tail lobe up and back to a dent, then another down to the belly.

Tip A sideways bow tie: no line across the thin end.

Step 4: Long top fin

Start above the eye. Draw a long low fin along the back, stopping near the tail. Add 4 rays.

Tip Long and low, not a tall sail: it hugs the back like a ribbon.

Step 5: Gill

A finger behind the eye, draw a short C bowing toward the tail, not touching the back or belly.

Step 6: Side fin

Behind the gill, below the middle, draw a leaf fin lying flat, pointing at the tail. Add 2 rays.

Step 7: Long belly fin

Start under the eye. Draw a long low fin along the belly, stopping near the tail. Add 3 rays.

Step 8: Paintbrush stripe

Behind the eye, draw a long band along the back that swoops down onto the tail, like a paintbrush tip.

Tip Keep it under the top fin and just clear of the eye.

Step 9: Bubbles

Above the snout, draw 3 bubbles floating up: small, bigger, biggest.

Step 10: Sand and seaweed

Draw a wavy sand line across the bottom. Add 2 wiggly seaweed blades on the left, 1 on the right.

Step 11: Yellow tail and fin

Colour the tail and the side fin yellow. Colour the floor under the sand line sandy.

Step 12: Blue bubbles, green seaweed

Colour the bubbles light blue and the seaweed green.

Step 13: Blue body, black stripe

Colour the body and long fins blue, around the side fin and stripe. Colour the stripe black.

Tip Leave the eye white.