How to Draw Waves Splashing
- 1). Use your straight edge to draw a long, light horizontal line about halfway across your page to create a horizon for your water.
- 2). Lightly sketch an area of foam ascending above this horizontal line. Make large, rough circular formations to achieve the appearance of a spray of water. Extend this line of foam underneath the horizon line, closer to the bottom of the page. This creates a line of spray meeting the sand of a beach.
- 3). Color the water with the aqua color pencil. Do not color inside of the area of foam. Color the area beneath the foam in tan and brown to create a beach.
- 4). Lightly color above the water and around the foam in light blue to create a sky. You cannot outline the foam with hard lines, so coloring a sky behind it will define this area of your waves.
- 5). Color in the underside of the foam above your horizon line with aqua color pencil, applying pressure to create an intense area of color. Shade over the area directly beneath this foam in dark blue to define an area of shadow.
- 6). Lightly color over the water on your horizon in soft strokes of brown and green. Use these colors sparingly because they add depth to your water but may overpower your ocean colors if overused.
- 7). Draw over your water in long strokes of white, blending the blue, green and brown. Use horizontal strokes, and apply pressure to your pencil to intensify this effect. Shade inside your foam with light touches of gray, leaving large areas of white visible.
- 8). Color inside your foam with white, allowing the white pencil to blend small amounts of aqua into this area of your wave.
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