I have prepared for you another interesting drawing lesson in which I would like to tell and show you how to draw a mermaid.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to draw a mermaid step by step. This character is very famous and you have surely ever seen it. A mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. You may have seen this mythical creature in many cartoons, movies, books, or video games.
With the help of my simple step-by-step instructions, it will be very easy for you to draw a mermaid. In this lesson, you will first draw the mermaid’s head and body, then her costume, and after that, you will learn how to color this drawing.
If you learn how to draw a mermaid, you can apply these skills to other drawings, such as a seascape, sea, waves, underwater world, and so on. Now you can start doing this work and enjoy the drawing process!
Materials
- Pencil
- Paper
- Eraser
- Coloring supplies
Time needed: 20 minutes.
How to Draw a Mermaid
- Draw the outline of the mermaid’s head and torso.
To do this step, you can depict the mermaid’s head as an oval and the torso with curved lines.
- Depict the facial features.
Draw the mermaid’s eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth using two ovals and curved lines.
- Add the mermaid’s hair and ears.
Draw the same ears on the sides of the head, and the hair on top of the head, using curved lines.
- Draw the mermaid’s tail.
Below the outline of the torso of the character add a large tail with two fins at the bottom of it.
- Depict the hands.
On the right and left sides of the torso add two symmetrical hands, using curved lines.
- Add the element.
Draw a volumetric outline of the top edge of the tail at the waist of the mermaid.
- Picture the top part of the mermaid’s costume.
On top of the mermaid’s torso add rounded and straight lines to represent her costume.
- Erase unnecessary lines.
Use an eraser to remove auxiliary lines that appeared during the drawing process.
- Color the drawing.
To color the mermaid, use blue, red, black, shades of yellow, and any color for the skin.
At this point this drawing guide is complete. Don’t forget to download a short version of this lesson in PDF format, so you can return to this lesson whenever you want.
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