Some animals look so strange that it is almost impossible to describe them without using swear words. This is especially true for marine animals, which are not at all lucky in this regard. Vocabulary a person only had enough to name animals on land, but with sea animals they decided not to have any difficulty, and simply find minimal similarities and name, for example, a sea cow, an elk or a horse, which we will draw today. Hippocampus is a rare animal with the rudiments of intelligence, which provokes it to live in places remote from humans. Can reach a size of ten meters, but does not want to. It was named Skate because of its resemblance to a fishhook, and the fishhook, in turn, to a horse with cerebral palsy. It was not domesticated by humans, like the chupacabra, sabertooth and.
Due to its rarity, it is a very delicious dish, and not only people, but also sharks understand this. In fact, sharks don't eat them, they are eaten by crabs, who hire sharks for big money. British scientists believe that seahorses are actually bred by mermaids for high-speed movement along the warm currents of the Pacific Ocean.
The life of a seahorse is not so simple, it is even simpler:
- Eggs are laid not by females, but by males. Females love to fight for guys, tug at the tail and notice small needles on the body of their rival;
- Perhaps he swims in an L shape, just like in chess;
- Trying to imitate a seahorse is life-threatening;
- They still exist only because they give birth to a thousand individuals at a time;
- Sometimes it is called a sea kangaroo due to the presence of a pouch in which the offspring are hidden.
Drawing this interesting creature is difficult, but possible if you follow these steps:
How to draw a seahorse with a pencil step by step
Step one. Select a square and try to draw a figure in it that matches the shape of a skate. 
Step two. When done, draw a long tail, a muzzle with a small crown and a small chest next to it (for piquancy). 
Step three. Outline the contours more clearly. Also draw a lot of protective spikes on the body. 
Step four. Add shadows and background some more bubbles and algae. 
I recommend that you try to draw again.
The world of the sea is multifaceted and unusual. Sometimes you meet the most incredible residents there. For example, a seahorse, which is very similar to a small dragon or a chess piece. It can fit in the palm of your hand, and on the surface of the skin it has spikes and outgrowths. This camouflage makes it invisible in algae. How to draw a seahorse to convey its fantastic shape?
They begin to draw the skate from the head, on which there is a long stigma, similar to a pipette. Draw an oblique line down, draw an ear, forehead and a long nose. The lower part of the head is drawn with 2 small outgrowths. Since on the body sea creature there are many spikes, the line should not be straight, but zigzag.
We move from the head to the body. The seahorse has a characteristic rounded tummy, because it contains a huge bladder. Due to its vertical position, the fish has the ability to move vertically and cling to algae with its tail. Therefore, we draw a protruding tubercle.
The tail is curled in left side, and not to the right, as is sometimes depicted by those who have not seen his photo.
Draw a mirror image of the left side. The fish expands from top to bottom and contracts again.
You need to draw a fin.
After this, draw the back half of the skate in a zigzag until it connects with the head. It should have 2 growths on the top. This is explained by the fact that bony fish belong to the order of spiny fish.
Now you need to retreat 1 mm and draw all the bends.
Having reached the fin, you should make 2 horizontal lines in it, and walk along the bottom of the tail with a dotted line.
Draw the same on the left half of the tail and abdomen.
Walk a parallel line along the neck and head. Do not forget that you need to make a nostril in the nose, and on the head you need to draw an eye and, of course, a pupil.
Now you need to decorate the back of the seahorse. To do this, draw rows of small closed figures. The number of elements in each row increases towards the middle.
Draw the bones on the fin.
Thus, go over the entire left side of the seahorse, finishing the drawing on the tail. Fish can change color to suit their surroundings. He hides from his enemies.
This is a very interesting fish, because gestation is carried out exclusively by a responsible male in a special pocket. Almost every 4 weeks he has offspring, which no one looks after. Young individuals are left to their own devices and either go with the flow or stay.
If we're going to paint a colorful picture underwater world, then you can’t do without a seahorse. Let's learn to draw a seahorse. While we are still training, we will also develop a coloring book.
A seahorse is a fish that does not resemble either a fish or an animal. Some species actually look exactly like algae.
And a typical seahorse resembles the chess piece Horse.
Let's start drawing. The curved neck then the back, which turns into a long spirally curled tail. Please note: it immediately seems to us that the curl should be in the other direction for the harmony of the figure, but no - the ponytail curls towards the belly, and not towards the back. With this tail the seahorse clings to
Draw the abdomen. It is attached to the ridge. The horse's neck is arched in a restive manner and has a long-nosed muzzle on it. The seahorse has a snout like a tube and uses it to suck in small crustaceans and crabs ( note - in huge quantities ). The eyes are quite large and sharp-sighted: when hiding among a seahorse, it can perfectly imitate coloring environment. These fish swim slowly and at the same time keep their body VERTICAL. Like standing. ( Although we admit that in many photographs they are still somehow directed forward ). Well, of course, they move slowly; their fins are the most sensitive: seahorses rely not on speed, but on the hardness of the bony plates covering their body and camouflage with color and shape.
We learned so many interesting things.
But how many articles are about animals - about amazing creatures that inhabit the Earth for millions years - stories They are reported to us - and these creatures have been endangered by human activity through their activities. Seahorses are also included in the Red Book. Alas. How I would like the children I teach to grow up aware of their responsibility for life on our common planet.
So they drew it. I will use the picture as a sample for coloring. Sea horse. But I draw coloring pages for my students by hand, and I’d better practice some more - let’s draw another seahorse.
How to draw a Seahorse 2
And here you go, one more horse - the second Seahorse coloring page:
But simple copying is not so interesting, let's see what happens if you expand the fish:
Now I have a whole three horses - at least harness them to a carriage. However, I don’t need them for trips, I will use the Sea Horse coloring book for students to draw patterns, cut out along a complex contour and, as a motive, to draw beautiful thickets of algae where the seahorses will hide and hunt. Such are Napoleonic plans.