How to draw a Sea Anemone (Actinia)
Let`s learn how to draw a Sea Anemone.
Actiniae, or sea anemones (lat. Actinia) belong to a detachment of stinging marine animals from the class of coral polyps (Anthozoa).
They look like flowers. If you look impartially, sea anemones resemble asters, but not anemones. Anyway, let’s learn how to draw Actinia.
Sea Anemone drawing step by step
Sea anemones have no mineral skeleton. As a rule they are solitary animals. Most anemones are sessile organisms living on a hard sea bottom.
Sea anemone`s cylindrical body varies in diameter from a few mm to 1.5 meters.
On the upper end of the body there is slit-like mouth surrounded by tentacles.
Overall actinia looks like a bundle of snakes on a stump:
Sea Anemones are often very brightly colored:
