Continue applying different shades of blue until the entire bottom portion is filled in.

Now we need to make it look like the iceberg is sticking out of the water, rather than just sitting on top of it.

To do that, we’ll divide the layers into two groups: one for the shapes on top (Top Filled Group) and the other for the shapes on the bottom (Bottom Filled Group). We can do this by selecting the layers we want to group and pressing Command-G.

In the Layers panel, grab the Bottom Filled group and drag it to the bottom of the list. Place the horizontal water rectangle just above it, as the second to last in the list.

After we rearrange the layers, it should look like this:

Next, we hide the lines we don’t want to see. To do this, expand the lines group. Find the lines we want to hide and select them.

Delay Commando XThen select and hold the vertical rectangular layer. Commando-V to paste them there. The rest of the lines in the previous group can be dragged down, just above the Bottom filled group.

You can also remove the lines and nodes that don’t make sense, and give the remaining lines a nice light color instead of black.

We can hide our reference images now. We don’t need them anymore.

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