Drawing a mermaid doesn’t need to be difficult. Our step by step art lesson will show you how to draw it in 12 steps.
We’ve also included 2 different color options but, as always, feel free to get creative and change the colors to match what you want.
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Art Supplies
Here’s a list of coloring supplies we recommend to use, however, feel free to use whatever you can find around the house!
- Pencil, Marker, Sharpie, Pen (Anything you can draw with!)
- Paper (We love marker paper but use anything you can find).
- Colored Markers (if you want to color the drawing).
Here are what we think are the best colored pencils, best gel pens and best markers for coloring. - Your imagination (feel free to change colors or add things to the drawing!).
If you are already a fan of a particular marker/coloring brand you may want to check out a few of our other guides such for popular brands such as Ohuhu markers, Artzea and Prismacolor markers.
Otherwise, just pick whatever coloring tools you have around the house (crayons, markers, pencil crayons etc.) and just have some fun!
A Few Tips Before You Start Drawing
- The hair doesn’t need to be exactly how we do it. Feel free to experiment with it.
Let’s Draw A Cute Mermaid – Step By Step
Note: You can change the heart to any other shape you’d like
Arms are thicker at the start and thin out near the hand.
It’s easier to control the thickness of the arm by drawing the top and then drawing another line on the bottom and connecting them at the hand.
Do the same thing for the other side except make the lines go out a bit further.
The closed eye is just like a crescent moon.
Finish off the other details. When adding the blush, you want to draw & color the circles with the blush color.
Want More?
We’ve made a lot of tutorials on how to draw kawaii characters and objects. Great for beginners and more advanced artists. We have printable step by step instruction guides to help you learn to draw all of our tutorials.
Or maybe you want to color? We have printable kawaii coloring pages. Head on over to our coloring page section of our website to search and download them all!
Just want to download a coloring page of this specific character? Click the print button below to print off this lesson’s coloring & tracing pages.
Printable Cute Mermaid Coloring Page
Here’s where you can download the cute mermaid coloring page & step by step instructions. You can use the coloring page to practice coloring the character and the step by step instructions are great if you are not near a computer or phone and want to try this lesson out!
Click the print icon to open print options for these pages. You can also click the image and save it directly to your device.
Download Printable Cute Mermaid Coloring Page
Download Printable Instructions: How To Draw A Cute Mermaid
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Are you interested in coloring more?
Coloring characters such as this mermaid can be A LOT of fun. Especially when they look so cute : )
If you had fun coloring this character, you may want to check out our kawaii coloring book which is available at Amazon. We also have some information on our site for more complex coloring for older kids and adults. You can check out our favorite adult coloring books and some of our top choices for color by number books for adults (which tend to be easier to start with).
