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This is a tutorial on how to draw an underwater background. I made this as a request for

HERE ARE THE STEPS:

1: color the entire frame/stage/board blue AND HAVE IT ON ITS OWN LAYER, NOT THE BACKGROUND LAYER UNLESS YOU'RE REALLY SURE OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

2: Add steadily darker shades of blue on the bottom of the screen until you get to a black line on the bottom. At the top of the screen, draw wide, white diamond-shapes for wave crests.

REMEMBER: the smaller the wave crest is, the FARTHER away it is.

3: Smudge everything and even it out until you come to a similar result as I have in panel 3. ONLY SMUDGE SIDE-TO-SIDE, NOT UP-AND-DOWN.

4: Add some details to the wave crests by adding small bits of white and smudging them VERY GENTLY. Smooth out the darker depths of the ocean (the darkening shades of blue on the bottom) as well. Smudge side-to-side again and NEVER up and down.

And there you have it; a basic ocean background. ^^

Description
This is a tutorial on how to draw an underwater background. I made this as a request for

HERE ARE THE STEPS:

1: color the entire frame/stage/board blue AND HAVE IT ON ITS OWN LAYER, NOT THE BACKGROUND LAYER UNLESS YOU'RE REALLY SURE OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

2: Add steadily darker shades of blue on the bottom of the screen until you get to a black line on the bottom. At the top of the screen, draw wide, white diamond-shapes for wave crests.

REMEMBER: the smaller the wave crest is, the FARTHER away it is.

3: Smudge everything and even it out until you come to a similar result as I have in panel 3. ONLY SMUDGE SIDE-TO-SIDE, NOT UP-AND-DOWN.

4: Add some details to the wave crests by adding small bits of white and smudging them VERY GENTLY. Smooth out the darker depths of the ocean (the darkening shades of blue on the bottom) as well. Smudge side-to-side again and NEVER up and down.

And there you have it; a basic ocean background. ^^