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How to Draw a Mermaid Castle
Draw a mermaid castle in 14 easy steps, about 11 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.
Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: the big hall.
Step 1: The big hall
Low in the middle of your page draw a wide box for the castle hall.
Tip Leave room on both sides for the towers and the seaweed.
Step 2: Two towers
On each side draw a taller, thinner tower box touching the hall, standing on the same line.
Step 3: Fan shell roof
On top of the hall draw a fan shell: 5 round bumps in a half circle, the middle one biggest.
Tip Start and stop a little way in from the hall's top corners.
Step 4: Shell ribs
From the middle of the roof's flat bottom draw 4 lines fanning out to the dips between the bumps.
Step 5: Spiral shell roofs
On each tower draw a tall pointed shell roof, wider than the tower. Draw 3 slanted lines across each.
Tip The slanted lines make the roof look like a twisty sea shell.
Step 6: Doorway and windows
In the hall draw a big arched doorway down to the floor. Draw a round window in each tower.
Step 7: The sea floor
Draw the sea floor line from edge to edge, level with the bottom of the castle.
Step 8: Wavy seaweed
On the left draw 2 wavy seaweed blades growing up from the sea floor to a point, one taller.
Step 9: A little coral
On the right draw a little coral growing from the floor, with 3 round-tipped arms.
Tip It looks like a little hand with 3 fat fingers.
Step 10: Fish and bubbles
Above the roof draw a fish: oval body, triangle tail, dot eye. Add 3 bubbles on the right.
Tip Bubbles get smaller as they float up.
Step 11: Pink walls
Colour the hall and the 2 towers pink, around the doorway and the windows.
Step 12: Purple shells
Colour the 3 shell roofs purple. Colour the doorway and the 2 windows purple too.
Step 13: Orange and green
Colour the coral and the fish orange. Colour the seaweed green.
Step 14: Sand and sea
Colour the floor sandy and the sea blue around everything. Leave the 3 bubbles white.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a mermaid castle, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
