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Jakegothicsnake β€” Guide to properly drawing mermaids Pg.6

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Description Page # 6 on my mermaid drawing guide.

This one deals with coloration. Aside from what it says on the page, you can use just about any color for your mermaid's hair, eyes, skin, scales, and fins. However, if you are going to give your mermaids some ethnic diversity, here's what I reccomend.

For mermaids that live in atlantic/artic waters: For skin use light, pale shades of yellow, green, gray, and blue, or dark shades of green, blues, gray, or purple. For scales and fins, use aquatic shades of green, yellow, blue, purple, or gray.

For mermaids that live in fresh water or termperate waters: Use normal skin tones, for the tails stick with the colorations for that like the ones for the northern mermaids.

For mermaids that live in tropical waters: Use very vibrant colors. Anything like purple, orange, red, yellow, fuschia, etc. For skin anything from light tan, to dark skin.
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1Hannah-The-Artist [2018-10-06 02:41:43 +0000 UTC]

But I like dark colors.

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Jakegothicsnake In reply to 1Hannah-The-Artist [2018-10-06 02:44:17 +0000 UTC]

I never said you couldn't use dark colors.

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Magnolia667 [2017-06-17 21:26:18 +0000 UTC]

What if the ugly mermaids are super nice and the pretty ones are pure evil?

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Jakegothicsnake In reply to Magnolia667 [2018-10-06 02:44:53 +0000 UTC]

Sometimes the pretty ones and the ugly ones are both evil.

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Magnolia667 In reply to Jakegothicsnake [2018-10-06 08:46:03 +0000 UTC]

Maybe. But sometimes the ugly ones are nicer than the pretty ones.

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Mariposabutterfly [2017-03-29 13:20:45 +0000 UTC]

My mermaid's skin colors are mostly pastel colored or lighter shaded to match the colors of their tails since they're not human, they're beings.Β 

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Clockwork-Cryptid [2016-05-07 22:20:02 +0000 UTC]

Ah... that mermaid gave me nightmare fuel

In all seriousness, thanks for making these. I felt like drawing a mermaid and these particular pages are really helping me with what to do and what to avoid. In other words, I'd say my drawing is going good, all thanks to you!

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KingGianny123 [2014-02-22 13:27:45 +0000 UTC]

Like for pretty mermaids Β and ignore for ugly mermaids

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Jakegothicsnake In reply to KingGianny123 [2014-02-22 15:39:59 +0000 UTC]

XD

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