Q&A for How to Draw a Beach Scene

You can make the colors darker and add little raindrops. You should also put a lot more clouds in the sky and no sun.

Use white or silver paint on the water to show a reflection.

Keep your wrist rigid and make zig-zag lines across the edges as detail. Though this won't be perfect, keep in mind that perfection takes time. Make sure that your pointed edges are 2 line "points" to avoid blocky leaves.

Get a light red, orange, and yellow and shade the colors together to blend.

Hold your pencil about 4 cm from the tip. Keep your wrist at the edge of the paper. Use your wrist as a compass to draw curved and parallel lines.

Very lightly color with your yellow pencil. And if you want lighter, use your white as well.

You can color lightly with a dark blue pencil or marker, or buy pencils and markers that include sky blue. If you're painting, you could mix blue and white paint.

Look for some tutorials online, YouTube has a lot. Check out books from the library about drawing, and most importantly, practice! It takes time and a lot of work to get good at it.

The way you make sand the color of actual sand is to draw the sand tan with a crayon, then put light brown spots in the tan colored sand.

You can color the brown hard or there is a color called dark brown in the Crayola boxes.

You can draw at any age. It doesn't matter how old you are.

Start by just drawing some wedges coming out of the top of the tree. Then, go back and add some detailing so the wedges look like actual palm tree leaves. If you're not quite sure how to get the look right, find some pictures of palm trees to copy.

Mix yellow and orange paint, then add thin strokes of red paint and mix even more.

Perhaps you could add a sunset/sunrise in the background. If you want brighter colors, use gel pens or fluorescent highlighters. If you just want it nicely blended, use watercolors. Also, remember to reflect the sunset into the water, but make the colors a little blurred and softer. This will create a dramatic effect.

It doesn't matter, just don't make them too small or too big. Remember to color them in and make them a little spikey.

You do not have to draw the palm trees. Most people include palm trees to add interest to a beach scene but you certainly don't need to add them.

Yes, you can add whatever you would like to your trees.

Consult Draw Clouds .

Use white at the crest and tips to show the water thinning out/foaming. Also use light colors at the center of a tall wave, in order to show that there is little water at the bend.

Clouds are puffy and are like cotton balls. You can imagine or glue together some cotton balls in clumps to help you visualize what clouds would look like.

It depends on your skill level. If you feel confident, you can try shading. Imagine lines radiating from the sun. These lines won't go through the objects in your drawing. All the places that the lines don't touch should be colored darker. The places in the water where the lines touch shouldn't be colored, or colored lighter.

Drawing waves on a beach scene is actually pretty simple to do. Once you've drawn the shoreline and the beach, add a few little squiggle lines for waves in the water. Space them out from each other so they look more natural and realistic and to give the water the appearance of texture and movement. When you add other details, the waves will look even better!

Start by sketching out the background. Draw a line across the paper for the horizon and add a wavy line for the edge of the water. Draw a few squiggles in the water for waves and a few clouds in the sky above them. Then, draw a sun or moon in the sky. Once you've got the background sketched out, you can add details like palm trees, a boat in the water, or a beach umbrella. Erase the pencil lines to leave a faint outline and then color in your scene!

You can draw a simple boat on the water by drawing a half-circle on the surface of the water to form the hull. Then, erase the part that would be beneath the water. Draw a straight line for the mast and then a triangle attached to it to form the sail. Add some color and details like an anchor or barnacles to give it some character!

Just draw the horizon line and then a semicircle in the middle to make it look like the sun is setting. Use red or orange for the sun and blue for the sea.

Use blue and black, and if you want darker paint, then just keep adding black and maybe a bit of purple.