Here’s all the mermaids that I drew and painted last month for mermay. They’re all based on Ariel and her sisters from the new live action ‘The Little Mermaid’ by Disney. I absolutely loved the new live action film, I can’t wait to see it again and these characters were a lot of fun to draw.
Perla. The last of my drawings of Ariel and her sisters.
This was a fun one to paint, mainly because of the colours and pattern, the watercolours worked really well for that.
Caspia, one of the sevens daughters of Triton from the new The Little Mermaid film, only two more of the sisters are left to draw now.
Continuing with the Daughters of Triton, here is Mala. Not long till the new film is out now, I can’t wait to see it!
Karina. One of the seven daughters of Triton from The Little Mermaid live action. Like Tamika, I couldn’t quite get her tail right due to lack of reference photos.
One of Ariel’s sisters from the upcoming Little Mermaid film. Such a cool design but quite tricky to draw, mainly because of the colours of her tail and I couldn’t find a great reference picture for her fins.
I haven’t drawn anything in weeks, maybe months, and have been stuck in a bit of a rut creatively. Since it’s Mermat I thought it would be a good time to try and change that. I’m starting with a watercolour of Halle Bailey as Ariel in the upcoming live action Little Mermaid. I can’t wait to see the film later this month and in the meantime I’m hopefully going to draw more of the characters from the film.
Taken from my sketchbook, here are various different merpeople which I drew in 2017. I wanted to explore different ages and bodies types with these, rather than just sticking to the traditional depiction of mermaids.
Three colourful mermaids which I painted in my sketchbook in 2017 for Mermay. They are a more traditional depiction of a mermaids and I really wanted to play around with colour, particularly with the scales, and thought watercolour would be great for this.
Scott Keenan Illustration 