How to draw a mermaid?

Mysterious creatures - mermaids for many centuries excite the imagination and imagination of people. Legends of these sea nymphs - the souls of trees and water are found in ancient cultures. According to the beliefs, mermaids can be good and evil, they can appear in the guise of girls, babies or elderly persons.

But no matter how complex and ambiguous is the image of the mermaid in mythology, in the modern world he invariably associates with the kind and friendly beautiful Ariel - the main character of the animated film "The Little Mermaid" by Walt Disney Company. The youngest daughter of the sea king Triton is cheerful and inquisitive, she has true friends, and what is most interesting, she is in love with unconsciousness in the beautiful prince. Merry adventures of the little mermaid Ariel very much like children and adults, and the heroine herself became the favorite of a small audience and an example of imitation for young princesses.

In this article we will try to figure out how to draw an ordinary mermaid and a beautiful sea princess in stages.

How to draw a mermaid for beginners?

If your artistic skills are far from perfect, it is better to start with a simple drawing. In addition, the creation of such a masterpiece can attract a child, which will make it fun and useful to spend time.

So, let's get started. First we will prepare all the most necessary things: a sheet of paper, simple and colored pencils, an eraser. Now, following the step-by-step instructions below, how to draw a mermaid with a pencil, we'll begin to draw a simplified version of the sea diva.

1. First of all, at the top of the sheet, draw a small oval without the top part - this will be the head of our little mermaid. Then add eyes with cilia, nose, ears and mouth.
2. Now draw a beautiful long curly hair with nimbus in the form of asterisks.
3. Next, draw a torso and a swimsuit. To do this, from the bottom of the head, draw two symmetrical curved lines - this will be the neck and shoulders. Be creative - model a beautiful bra.
4. Draw the handles.
5. To draw a tail to a mermaid, as beautiful as possible, try to repeat the contours of the contour exactly as shown in the figure. In principle, most of the work has been done, it remains to finish the scales and decorate.

How to draw Princess Disney?

After a bit of training on simple sketches, you can proceed to the task more complicated. For example, draw a mermaid Ariel pencil, - just what you need. Prepare everything you need and proceed:

1. Let's start drawing Ariel with a pencil sketch. Only try at the initial pores not to put too much pressure on the pencil, so that it is easier to eliminate errors and auxiliary lines.
2. Let's draw a head. To do this, draw a circle, and below it a figure like a triangle, which will serve as the lower jaw. The line between the circle and the triangle will be erased with an eraser.
3. Then draw two curved lines - the outlines of the shoulders and neck.
4. Continue work on the torso and swimsuit.
5. Now let's get to the hands, carefully and accurately draw the wrists, pointing the fingers up, and positioning them, close to each other. Thus, the handle of the sea princess will turn out elegant and delicate.
6. After that, the hardest part of the job is to draw a beautiful tail. Look carefully at the picture and repeat the bends.
7. Now is the time to do the hairdo.
8. Then concentrate on the face: draw the eyes, which in shape should resemble two circles with a flat bottom. To make them look more natural, we will paint eyelids, eyeballs and beautiful thick eyelashes. We add a curve for the nose, draw a smile and a crook.
9. Well, it remains to "beat" the fin and we can consider our sketch completely ready.
10. Now you can add bright colors, it's best to decorate the little mermaid with colored pencils, since the colors require more skill and skill.