how to draw a mermaid

Hello love artists and welcome to the lesson about how to draw a mermaid. This is one of the most famous characters in mythology, which is nowadays in a variety of books, movies and cartoons.

Footstep ane

As we have already said, a mermaid is a creature whose upper office is human being and the lower part of the fish. So at first sketch out the head in a shape of an oval. Next, draw a long spine that smoothly passes into the tail. Side by side sketch out the chest and artillery.

how to draw a mermaid

Footstep ii

Allow'due south add some volume to the body of our mermaid. Sketch out the intersecting lines on the head. So sketch out the body which narrows in the waist, then widens in the hips and once again slowly narrows to the tip of the tail. At the terminate of this step sketch out the arms.

mermaid art

Step 3

Let's add some basic details to our mermaid. With the help of lite curved lines nosotros outline the contours of the pilus. On the face up we sketch out the optics, a nose and mouth. Side by side go downward but below and depict details on the trunk and artillery. Then draw fins on the long tail.

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Step 4

Erasing all unnecessary guidelines from the head nosotros draw the hair and features of the face of our mermaid. Carefully draw out the optics, eyebrows, nose, ears and lips.

mermaid tail drawing

Stride 5

Let'due south become downwards just below and accept care of the details on the torso and arms. Erase all unnecessary guidelines and using clear and authentic lines describe out the torso that narrows around the waist. Adjacent draw thin artillery with neat fingers.

learn to draw a mermaid step by step

Footstep 6

Erase all the remaining lines from the body of our mermaid. Using clear and slightly curved lines describe out the tail. At the terminate of this pace add lines on the fins.

mermaid drawing

Step 7

Then, the mermaid drawing is almost complete and nosotros have simply to add shadows. Add together shadows gently. If you do everything correctly, you will get a realistic and iii-dimensional cartoon.

how to draw a mermaid

We finished the cartoon lesson well-nigh how to draw a mermaid. Notation that using this cartoon lesson y'all volition be able to draw all the mermaids from all the stories you know, whether the grapheme is from Greek mythology or Ariel from Disney.