Great work, you have just created a magical mermaid! Why not make custom illustrations for family and friends by changing the hair, skin, and tail colors? We hope our drawing exercise has inspired you to create more ocean clipart. Add a shimmering effect with glitter, or use this holographic Procreate brush. To finish off your mermaid art, add some darker shades to the hair. Procreate users, we have a bunch of premade Procreate color palettes you can use. For your mermaid colors, you will need hair, skin colors, and colors to add to the tail and sea shells. You can remove your rough sketches when you are done outlining. On the tail, add a scalloped design to create scales and draw a few lines at the bottom of the fins. Then outline your hair lines and seas shells. Start outlining your mermaid's hair, head, body, and tail. Pay close attention to which sketch line you want to make permanent.

You could use a black color of your chosen medium or marker to define your sketches. Step 3 - Outline Your Mermaid Rough Sketchesįor this step, switch to a defining medium to create our mermaid outlines. Then add the sea shells to the chest of your mermaid. For our mermaid's eyes, we made them closed by drawing a lash line only. Add a few wavy lines inside to create a flowing effect.Īdd the eyebrows, eyes, and mouth inside the mermaid's head. Draw the hair sketches close to the bottom of the neck, going upwards using wavy lines. Add the HairĪbove the head, we will create wavy flowing hair going up. So feel free to change up the style from our example sketches. You can create your mermaid to look any way you want to. With our base shape sketched, we can add the hair, face, and shell details. We made our mermaid fins large and pointed curves for the ends. Then below that, draw a long, pointed, curved shape for the rest of the tail.Īt the edge of the tail, point sketch the two fins. See our red sketch line in the image below. The right arm is visible, so we started drawing at the body's top right side.Īs we did below, you can make the hands tilted upward and add the thumps at the bottom.Īt the lowest point of the body, sketch a heart shape. Our mermaid's left arm is visible from the elbow, and we started our sketch at the center-left side of the body. Sketch the arms and hands on the left and right sides of the body. Then below it, draw an upside-down triangle shape with two lines toward the head for the body. Starting with the head, roughly sketch a circle. Mermaid with blonde hair and marine animals.Vector cartoon illustration vector Mermaid logo icon. For your rough sketches, we recommend using a pencil or light-colored medium. Cute mermaid isolated on white background. Let us begin our mermaid drawing by creating rough sketches.

Mermaid hair drawing