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1. Introduction: Mermaid In Love <3: I got us friends today. I'm going to teach you. You've been waiting for this, you've been asking for this. How to draw mermaids
and water goddesses. So before we start, let me introduce to you
my new drawing board. I'm going to draw
with chalk today. It's going to be an
open technique, glass. So you can use any technique
you can work with. Liquid ink, can work with
solid pigments like I do. So this is very
universal because I want each one of you have, it's just saying I want
each one you have to have what you need for
your drawing experience. So it's a universal and
blocks for everyone. It's also for all levels. Speaking up everyone. It's awesome for all levels. So we can be a complete
beginner for this. I can just do this when you're on more experienced artist to kinda just get into the mood and the whole
atmosphere of drawing, the whole mindset of drawing
mermaids and water goddess. They're beautiful. Fish tails.
2. Module 1: Mermaid Bodies vs. Human Bodies: Okay, To give you a general idea of what
bodies look like, I like to, just to put into context how we draw our body and how a
mermaid is different. Or better yet just like to
use this kind of proportion. The upper arms aren't
allowed as long as the until the waistline. No, rather Da Vinci created a great sketch and proportions
for the human body. It's this kind of man with long hair that has
his arms like this. Our inserted somewhere here. This would be how an
all normal human. So one of us enormous look like in comparison to a mermaid. So what's different when
we draw the upper body, believe it or not, is the same. But it's, the hair might be
longer, have to be longer. But I like to draw
them this way. They lash out longhand, supernaturally
long, to be honest. So let's keep it until here, because then it's where
it gets interesting. The upper body, which
is normally real quick. Oh, mother holding her hands, how cute, the human
and the mermaid. So here we can see them. Here would be the eyeline
and so on, height. I said we don't go
into depth into this. Now you can run this
from my other classes. I portray dry. So here's where the
fun card stats. Now, we can draw the fish
tail and keep in mind that the fishtail oftentimes
also has something that's similar to
the knee joint. So it can do it
like this, right? In most Mermaid movie Stay do. You can also leave the Giant
out? That's up to you. I like to keep it
because then they can sit on a rock and
do stuff like that, which I will draw. Now, we have kind of the
overall fish tail end of it. What's it called? This
is called the fence. I'm not I'm not sure,
you know what I mean? This year. The end. This is very important. It has to be done. Can you see how it is much
bigger than the head? It's also, I think I would say these fins can be as long
as the arms or even longer. There's actually no
there's no limit for this. Whether it's extremely big
and then would look strange. You can make it quite big. I would say before
it looks strange. And you can make
them even long ago, I would just show this. And you see how it still
looks beautiful and amazing. Even though it very, very
proportionately long. And this is where it's really fun because here we
can break the rules. You know, physical proportion that nature and science and all give us and all the
classical painters can really break these
rules because here, tap into our fantasy,
creative energy. Now, okay, this is only
the blueprint for them. All right? Now we can look at
the hat and I like to create the hair going into the same
direction as the tail. So as a rough outline
for the half, that of course has
something very free. It's one of the most free paths to draw and paint
in the human body. So it gives the most freedom, more freedom than
many other plants. Because it can be
staffs differently. It can have a very
different names. You can go and all
kinds of directions. In this case, it has even
more freedom because underwater has no gravity and the water and can float
into every direction. That's why I'm going to
dedicate the next chapter two.
3. Module 2: Mermaid Hair – The Classic: It sounds like ASMR. Now guys, it's all
about the hair of the water goddess
or the Mermaid. The hair part goes for
both of these categories. Because the hair is
lashes. It's thick. It's almost like
an aura of power around the goddess or mermaid. So it's, it's like a cloud
of energy around her because underwater we have no
we have no gravity. So it's all it can all
happen with the hair. So I'm going to show you two hairstyles Underwater
has doubts, so to speak. One of them is like the
long lashes classical. And the other one will be more experimental and a
little bit more. How to say sculptural,
I would say. Okay, let's go with part one. So let's go with, I would say a dummy
profile this time. Just giving myself an idea where the upper part
of the head will be. You can also learn
how to draw demi, demi profiles in my portrait. Trying costs. Just kidding the idea
for the eyes, the lips, kind of giving a very confident
expression to the face. Because we know she's looking at her underwater
kingdom, right? Or should I say Queen them. Now that we've created the face, can also add a little
bit of the neck and body because this will play a huge role for
the hair as a kind of almost like a part
of the clothing, almost took bail or a cake
or something like that. So let's add a little
bit of the baddies. Have a little bit of her bikini. Top, show it. And
also her shoulder. Now, let's jump to the hair. Jumping to the hair. What I want you
to do for this is really to loosen up your line, to really free your emotions of your arm because you're
going to meet this year. You want I'm really free lines. This is the main, kind of the same one of the main assets of
hair that it can move freely and in
such a wide gestures, so to speak, such wide motions. So just go here very
freely vary with a lot of lot of motion and
see how you can add the hair to the body and to frame the face, the
neck, shoulder. And he said cheekbones
are just thrown, but you have no really
no real rules here. The hair can go as high as it wants to go because
there's no gravity. Can go as wide as
it wants to go, because there's no gravity. And Mermaid hair can be
unlimited in length. So we have so much to play with. The eyebrows a little
bit stronger after all, it's only sketch for you. Here we have our
underwater style number 1.1 more thing. Just look at the way the half
frames the face directly. Then creates a mock
lashes look to this half. If you're working with
charcoal or chalk or pesto, like me can also do this. You're switching to add a little bit more volume
to the hair and to make it look very
full without losing, without using too
many separate lines. Here we got this your water
goddess on my man-made, just showing everyone
how powerful she is, filling the space with
very unique and energy.
4. Module 3: Experimental Mermaid Hair: Let´s Get Sculptural: Let's do, Let's maybe
do a profile here. This one. If you want to know how to
draw a profile portrait just right near the AMA and comment and I will
help you personally. So let's add a strong
chin here because we want a really confident
goddess, right? I wanted this, I wanted this very kind of almost
statuesque look for her, right, with the strong features. And this is what we're getting. Cheek bones, of course, maybe a little bit of a smile to also make her
a playful button. Now becomes the
interesting part. We want the hair to be
more like a sculpture, so something a little
bit more solid, right? So I suggest we just some of these wave-like
structures almost beg the silhouette of the sea when there's
a storm going on. We want her to show her really
feral peers power, right? Her face is really calm
and who has really fears. So that creates a
really interesting kind of intensity, I would say. Just adding these
wave-like structures all the way down to the neck. And what we can do now is
we can add the hairline. And I would suggest that we have structured line
of the hair then. Why not go like this, right? I have a really interesting
frame to the face. Now we can also take
our side and go add some volume. Here we go. I think she's done. Maybe she holds this magical water sculpture or
something else. Maybe she's very interesting. Clothing around microwaves. We go water bladders, sculpture.
5. Bonus Challenge: Mermaid in Motion!: Now for those of you want
to go a little bit further. A little bit more
of a challenge. I want to set the
mermaid into motion. Right? Now. We want to have a moving through the water and
see what this looks like. So I suggest that her
chest and her head, the first thing going
forward because this is very confident
posture showing. So I'm going to draw something like this. So this is going to be her chest and her head forming the
part of her body. Go forward first, right
here we have a weight. Here. Powerful fish tail. We follow her like this. Maybe she holds her hand
in front of her body because she is going
to speak to somebody, gesturing with her
arms and hands. And now comes into play
what we just practiced, the hair, but now it's inaction. Of course, since
she's moving forward, the hair will follow
her behind her, right. Because the motion and the water will kind of
push her hair back a little bit and make it
surround her family behind. I like to do at
least one kind of very extraordinary
shape in the hair because this gives it even more dynamic, even more motion. And I like to create
this big curl.
Anne Pflug, Artist Goddess
