If you have been following this far, you might be seeing a theme to this week (see the others here), but we are gonna keep diving into the techniques with this Day Ocean Coloring Tutorial. 

I have been in and out of the art scene since I was 18 because of some amazingly talented artist friends who introduced me to a world of 3d animation and rendering. I used to create models and then the textures to go on those models. 

Which is why I have so much fun showing ways to push texture with not that many supplies. Today's lesson is done within 10 steps with 4 alcohol markers and a gel pen/acrylic.

Day Ocean Coloring Tutorial 

One of the biggest takeaways from today's lesson is to see how the sky impacts the rest of the page and coloring over it in the same tone. I will be doing a mini series over the next few days on this to help demo it before revisiting it again a little later.

Tools Used

In today's day ocean coloring tutorial, I use Ohuhu alcohol markers, an Artistro White Acrylic, and White Gel Pen. 

Day Ocean Coloring Tutorial Video

This tutorial took me under 7 minutes to do, but the video has been sped up to under a minute below!

Day Ocean Coloring Tutorial Step-by-Step

Step 1: Take B03 and horizontally color the whole page.

Step 2: Still using B03, color the upper section of the sky to help darken it a little.

Step 3: Next, B110 (old codes), horizontal streaks to create waves

Step 4: Go back over step 4 with B03 to blend.

Step 5: Add G320 (old codes) horizontally over the water to still leave some blue, but add some color difference.

Step 6: Next Pb1 (old codes) for some depth in horizontal motion. 

Step 7: B110 over the water section to blend.

Step 8: Next, use a white acrylic or gel pen to create highlights on the water and add splatter dots on the lines.

Step 9: Use B03 over some of that white splatter to leave smaller dots for definition.

Step 10: Finally, Pb1 under the white acrylic in streaks and add a few tiny dots to the splatter for definition. 

And that's it! Everything in ten steps (minus the bird if you wanted to draw him in with a black pen).

If I were to do anything extra, it would be to add some crosses on the water for whimsy in a white gel pen. 

More tomorrow!