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Easy Mermaid Drawings

8 free drawings in PDF, to color online or to copy by hand.

Every mermaid page is really two drawings stuck together: a person above the waist and a fish below it, and the join is where children either hurry or take their time. The collection starts with a baby sitting inside a shell, where the tail barely shows, and ends with true proportions and a tail scaled row by row.

Easy
Baby mermaid coloring page sitting inside a large open scallop shell with a small curled tail

Baby Mermaid

Easy
Cute mermaid drawing with big eyes and long wavy hair, her scaled tail curled round beneath her

Cute Mermaid

Easy
Mermaid drawing holding a starfish up in one hand with small bubbles rising past her and a long tail

Mermaid With a Starfish

Medium
Mermaid seated on a large scallop shell throne with seaweed and small shells scattered on the seabed

Mermaid Shell Throne

Medium
Mermaid holding a long trident upright in one hand with her tail sweeping behind her and a crown of shells

Trident Mermaid

Medium
Mermaid perched on an open treasure chest spilling coins and pearls, her tail hanging down the front

Mermaid Treasure

Medium
Mermaid swimming underwater beside a jellyfish with long trailing tentacles and bubbles all around them

Mermaid and Jellyfish

Hard
Realistic mermaid drawing at true proportions resting on a rock, hair drawn strand by strand and a scaled tail

Realistic Mermaid

Mermaid drawings to print and color

These mermaid drawings print free, work on screen if you would rather not print, and each comes with the steps for drawing it by hand.

Start here: the easy ones

The baby mermaid sits inside an open scallop with only a short tail showing, and the cute mermaid curls hers round beneath her. Both suit four and up.

Mermaids holding something

The starfish gives a small child something to finish early, and the trident brings the only straight line in the collection.

Scenes rather than figures

The shell throne stands seaweed either side and scatters shells across the seabed, the treasure chest spills a dozen overlapping coins, and the jellyfish drifts beside her on long single tentacles.

The long one, for adults

The realistic mermaid trades cartoon rounding for true proportions, hair strand by strand and a tail scaled row by row. Give it pencils and an evening.

Everything prints free with no sign up. The unicorn drawings and the dragon drawings sit beside this one.

Common questions

What is the trick to a mermaid tail?

From the hips in one long curve, then the fin spread at the end, then the scales last in overlapping rows working down from the waist. Doing the scales before the outline is settled is what makes a tail look lumpy. The cute mermaid takes it slowly.

Which of these mermaids is the simplest?

The baby mermaid, because the shell hides most of the tail and the shell itself is the biggest and simplest shape on the page. A four-year-old can fill the ribs before anyone has to draw a face.

How do you color the hair and the tail differently?

Alternate two tones on both, but in opposite directions: lock by lock going down the hair, row by row going across the tail. The realistic mermaid is built around exactly that and rewards colored pencils over markers.

Are these mermaid pages free to print?

Yes. Every sheet prints at no cost, with no account and nothing to sign, from the button above the drawing. You can also color it in the browser and never touch a printer.