How to Draw a Mermaid Girl
I am glad to offer you an interesting new lesson on how to draw a mermaid girl. I’m sure you’ll be able to do this fascinating work easily.
So, in this tutorial, I would like to tell and show you how to draw a mermaid girl step by step in just nine simple and easy steps. You don’t have to be a professional artist to handle this work. I prepared this lesson especially for children and beginner artists, so it won’t give you any difficulties!
I’m sure you know a lot about mermaids and have seen these characters many times. A mermaid girl is a mythical creature that looks half like a girl and half like a marine creature. That is, her head and upper body are human-like, while her lower body is represented by a tail similar to that of a fish or dolphin.
So, if you want to learn how to draw a mermaid girl, then prepare the materials you need to draw and start doing this work.
Materials
- Pencil
- Paper
- Eraser
- Coloring supplies
Time needed: 20 minutes
How to Draw a Mermaid Girl
- Depict the outline of the head and torso.
To complete this step, draw the mermaid’s head as an oval and the torso with curved lines.
- Add the facial features.
Draw the eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth using two ovals of different sizes and curved lines.
- Outline the mermaid’s hair and ear.
Depict rounded and wavy lines at the top of the head and on the side of it.
- Draw the hands of a mermaid girl.
Add hands near the torso, using curved lines. One hand is partially covered by the torso.
- Add the top part of the costume.
At the top of the torso draw a circle, incomplete circle, and curved lines.
- Start drawing the tail.
To do this, add curved lines at the waist and below the torso of the mermaid girl.
- Draw the bottom of the tail and part of the hair.
Add two short lines, continue the hairlines, and add two pointed fins at the bottom of the tail.
- Erase unnecessary lines.
Use an eraser to remove auxiliary lines that appeared during the drawing process.
- Color the drawing.
Use blue, beige, and black for the costume, tail, and eyes, and any color to color the skin.
Great job! Now you know how to draw a mermaid girl step by step and can use these skills in the future. Below you can see and download the pdf file that I prepared for your convenience. It contains a short version of this tutorial and useful additions.