Mermaid tutorial for @kylie_weasleyxo (and anyone else who wants to try) (pt 1)

Start from the beginning
                                        

Draw a straight line down from the chest, then a curved one for the back, and connect them with another curved line (this line is a border between the tail and the rest of the body, so you don't want to erase it later)

Draw a straight line down from the chest, then a curved one for the back, and connect them with another curved line (this line is a border between the tail and the rest of the body, so you don't want to erase it later)

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Draw a curved line (a kind of half-circle) from the back
Be careful to follow the curvature of the back at first, so the back doesn't look broken

(Sorry for the bad visibility here :( )Draw another line to finish the tailBe careful to follow the curvature of the stomach first (like the back, so it doesn't appear broken)If you look at the reference, you can see that the tail gets a bit thick...

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(Sorry for the bad visibility here :( )
Draw another line to finish the tail
Be careful to follow the curvature of the stomach first (like the back, so it doesn't appear broken)
If you look at the reference, you can see that the tail gets a bit thicker before it thins out again, so be careful not to follow the back line of the tail too soon

(Sorry for the bad visibility here :( )Draw another line to finish the tailBe careful to follow the curvature of the stomach first (like the back, so it doesn't appear broken)If you look at the reference, you can see that the tail gets a bit thick...

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(Sorry, forgot the arms heh)
Draw a half-circle from the shoulder to about the middle of the first back line

(Sorry, forgot the arms heh)Draw a half-circle from the shoulder to about the middle of the first back line

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