So now that our seahorse has dried, I'm going to go in with my pencil and add a few little elements that I'm going to paint on the next layers. So underneath the jaw here, I'm going to make like a diagonal line in my mind, and I'm going to put the eyeball in. So I'm just going to make a rounded eye. If you put it too high up, I think it looks a little weird. So it's just a round circle. And then I want to do something here with this belly, I think it's kind of an interesting look.

So I'm going to come around with my pencil very lightly and sketch it. And I'm going to kind of follow the curve here. And I'm going to come out around, kind of just work my way into the tail just like that. And I like the way that looks kind of a snake like image. Then I'm going to take it I'm going to start coloring that I so I'm going to add just a little black on my brush with some water and I'll make that eyeball like that outline. I could leave a highlight but I'm going to color it in and Then I'll just add a highlight afterwards with the white gel pen.

And now for this area here I want to work on some striping. I think I'll add some striping over there. So I'm going to take my number six brush and I'm going to add some of this deep yellow. And I'll add a little vermilion hue with that as well. So I have a kind of a muted orange, it's not quite as bright as that one. Add a little more.

And then I'm going to take my brush here with a nice point. And I'm going to kind of create two stripes every so often. We'll have a little curve to them as well. So again, no straight lines, just little curves. Just like that. I'm going to take my brush again make another sharp point and I'm going to just thick in these stripes up.

So I'll just go maybe quarter inch or so underneath them running parallel to the first line that I made. I'll go down the length of the seahorse. gonna switch brushes to my smaller brush, my number two brush. And now I'm going to add just a little more pigment, a little more of a real vermilion hue. And I'm going to deposit that right at the top closest to the center of the belly. After I've deposited close to the belly, I'm going to help it run Think a nice sharp point of my brush and just pull that color can thick in some of these stripes.

I'm going to remove some of the pigment from my brush, rinse it and now I have kind of a very pale pigment on my brush. I'm just going to pull any of that color to make a nice soft blend. Tidy up those stripes. And I'll let this layer completely dry.