Walleye are popular game fish.
Walleye fish are also known as walleyed pike, ol' marble eyes, dore, jackfish and pickerel. Walleye are known for being challenging prey for fishermen. They are fast and fierce fighters, often coming out at dusk to eat smaller fish, larvae and minnows. A popular fish for fishermen, the walleye also makes a suitable subject for an artist. With its spiky dorsal fin and typical ovular body, the walleye is the typical form associated with a fish.
Instructions
1. Draw the outline of the walleye fish body using a long oval. Sketch it in lightly on paper using a pencil.
2. Draw the mouth of the walleye by drawing a downward sloping curve. Have the line pull further downward at the very end to give the fish its characteristic frown.
3. Draw a circle just above the inside of the mouth. Try to make the eye as round as possible. Draw a small black pupil inside the middle of the circle. Shade it black.
4. Draw the gill flap beginning one space equal to the eye behind the eye. The front slit should run from the top to the bottom of the back of the head, and then curve behind to form a short blunt point of the triangle of the gill behind the front of the gill slit.
5. Draw eight to nine backward pointing dorsal fin spikes beginning above the gill slit at the back of the fish and running half way down the back. Connect these spikes by drawing in fin webbing as little curved lines between the spikes.
6. Draw a side fin behind the gill flap and at the end of the tail. Sketch lines running from the top to the ends of the fins.
7. Shade in your walleye fish using the pencil, shade in darker towards the back and top and lightest towards the bottom. The walleye has a light colored stomach and dark colored back.
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