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in this lesson i’m going to show you a
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fun way to draw a koi fish i hope you’re
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going to follow along with me now this
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lesson is a little more advanced so it
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is meant for older kids 13 and up now
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for this lesson you need something to
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draw with i’m going to use a marker you
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need some paper and also some coloring
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supplies at the very end all right let’s
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get started we’re first going to draw
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the shape of our fish and we’re going to
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start up here we’re going to draw the
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tail up at the top and we’re going to
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draw it curling or curving down towards
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the bottom so we’ll start up here and
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we’re just going to draw a curve
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that comes down to the bottom of our
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paper
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then we’re going to come back up to the
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top and we’re going to start close to
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this line the first line we drew and
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we’re going to draw another line that
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curves down
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and as we get towards the bottom we’re
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going to get further away from the other
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line so up here we’re close and down
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here we’re further away
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next we’re going to connect these two
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lines with a curve or u shape so we’ll
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start here
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we’ll come down
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curve and then connect to the other side
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now let’s draw the fins up here at the
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top let’s first connect these two lines
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with another curve
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then we’re going to start here we’re
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going to draw the tail fin
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and this is
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this is where you guys can use your own
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creativity and change your drawing you
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really don’t have to match exactly what
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i’m drawing since it’s a fish it’s
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swimming through water the fins can
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curve and turn different directions okay
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so there’s our first line it’s a vanessa
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line we can draw the bottom of the
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telephone we’ll start down here on the
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bottom
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i’m just going to curve and make another
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s curve
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and you can do that any direction you
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want
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now let’s draw the back fin i’m going to
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draw a line that starts here
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and it’s going to curve down the middle
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of the back
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now i’m going to draw the top of the fin
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and we’re going to make a really cool s
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line i’m going to start here at the
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beginning of that line we’ll curve up to
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the edge of the body
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cross
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that center line and then curve back to
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the end
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now after we draw all the main shapes of
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our fins we’re going to go back in and
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add more lines so this is the top line
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to the back fin
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all right now let’s draw his side fins
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well let’s first draw the front we’ll
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draw a line that
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occurs out of the body and back
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and then we could do the same thing over
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here on this side
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curve another line out and back
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cool now they usually have another
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smaller fin on the side of their body so
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let’s start here and we’ll make another
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curve out
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and we’ll do the same thing over here on
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this side
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this is going to be such a cool drawing
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because it’s filling our page the whole
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drawing is taking up all of the space on
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our paper now let’s come back up here to
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the front of our fish let’s draw the
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eyes we’re going to draw a an oval over
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here on this side that’s a squished
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circle so the shape of their eye is a
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circle but because we’re looking down on
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his head or her head we’re going to draw
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it squish so it looks foreshortened
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now let’s do the same thing on the other
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side now on this side we’re only going
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to draw part of the oval and that’s
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because more of the eye is hidden back
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behind the fish now up here on the on
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the front they have a few fillers or
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little
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kind of it looks like whiskers that come
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out of their mouth
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or the cheek
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so i’m going to draw an s line that
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curves out and back in
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cool let’s let’s repeat that same step
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on the other side of our fish
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oh it’s so cool
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i’m also going to add another curve up
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here maybe for the lips on our koi fish
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oh and i forgot we need to add
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another oval inside of that first one we
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drew this one we can color in
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and we can also do the same thing over
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here just draw half of the oval
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and color it in all right cool now let’s
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add all of the extra lines to the fins
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on our fish so let’s start up here i’m
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going to draw a line right next to the
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first one we drew
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you can even turn your paper sideways
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sometimes that makes it easier to draw
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so i’m gonna draw a bunch of these i’m
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gonna fast forward the video but you
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guys at home can pause
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the lesson to take time to finish this
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step
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now remember these lines don’t have to
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look exactly like yours you can use your
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own creativity to add that texture now
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the end of the fin let’s go through and
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connect each of these lines so they all
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kind of come out at different lengths
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and then when we come through and
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connect them we can draw an s curve that
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goes through and kind of wiggles through
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and connects all of those lines now
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let’s move to the top fin and i’m going
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to draw lines
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the same way that we drew the texture up
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here on the tail fan we’ll just come
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down and connect
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through that first shape then we can
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come back here and dry additional lines
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connecting through that second shape of
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that top fin
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isn’t that cool it makes it look so 3d
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looks like you can see the right side of
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the top fin
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over here and then it flips over and you
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can see the other side
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okay now let’s add more lines over here
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for the side fins so we can start close
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to this first line
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and then as we curve and we kind of
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match that first line we can get further
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away
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towards the end of the fan
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now i’m going to fast forward this part
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also so remember to pause the video to
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take that extra time to finish
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i hope you had a lot of fun with that
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step now let’s go through and we’ll do
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the same thing we did on the tail we’ll
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connect all of the lines with an s curve
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that comes through
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and finishes that
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side fin so we’ll do the same thing with
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this back one
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and over here on the other side
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all right we did it we finished drawing
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our koi fish that was so much fun it
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looks really cool now it’s going to look
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even better once we color it this part
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you can use your own creativity and have
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a lot of fun changing your fish now i’d
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recommend doing a search on google to
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look at all the different types of koi
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fish you can look at all the different
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patterns and colors and find one that
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you really like then use that as
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inspiration to color your fish now i’m
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going to color my fish but i’m going to
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fast forward this part so at the end if
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you want to match the same coloring you
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can do that also just pause the video
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and then use my drawing as inspiration
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for your drawing
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so
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[Music]
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i hope you guys take time to color your
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drawings also they look so much better
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colored in i use markers and colored
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pencils but you can use whatever you
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want to color in your drawings i used
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the markers first i used orange to
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create all of the spots i used light
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gray and dark grey to add the shading
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and also the scale texture then i used
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the white and yellow to add a highlight
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down the middle of the fish i used the
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blue along with the two grays to create
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shading this makes the fish look more 3d
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when you add the shadows and also the
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highlight the highlight makes the fish
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look shiny and the shading makes the
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fish look more 3d i hope you had a lot
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of fun following along with me and
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drawing your own koi fish i hope you use
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your own creativity to change your
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drawings also be sure to take a photo of
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it and post it on instagram because i
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can’t wait to see how your drawings turn
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out and we’ll see you later art friends
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goodbye
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