You can use a ruler to help you draw a straight line.
Make the curves of the line different sizes to make the waterline look more realistic.
Don’t worry too much about making it look perfect. You are just at the pencil stage, and can fix it up later with colors.
If you want your beach scene to be perfectly sunny, with no clouds, then feel free to skip them! Study clouds and you will notice that they have perspective, which means they are like boxes going back towards the horizon. When painting your clouds, remember that even on sunny days, the shadows in clouds are lighter than the sky. This is important to making them feel like they are floating.
Don’t worry if the circle isn’t perfect! Most of the time people don’t look directly at the sun, so they don’t really see a perfect circle. If you want, you can give your sun a friendly smiley face.
You can add as many palm trees as you want. Of course, if your beach is somewhere that doesn’t have palm trees, you don’t have to draw them. Draw a little wiggly line under the palm tree to make it clear it’s standing on sand, not just floating. Each tree has its own way of branching. The best way to study them is to start by looking for the overall mass and filling it in from there. If you want to draw realistic trees, remember that we do not see individual leaves from afar, so think of leaves as masses. The one place that we do see individual leaves is where the edge of the foliage meets the sky.
You can add a beach towel underneath the towel by drawing a diamond. This will look like a tilted towel.
If you want your boat to be really far away, you can draw it really tiny on the horizon.
Make sure the ink has dried before you erase the pencil or your eraser will smudge the ink.
Your ocean will look more realistic if you color it with multiple colors, like blue, green, and purple, instead of all one color. You can color in your beach umbrella and beach towel bright colors like pink or yellow for some fun contrast!
