Guide to properly drawing mermaids Pg.4

Page # 4 of my mermaid guide.

This one deals with how a mermaid's hair colour and hairstyle should go.

For hair colours, there's pretty much no wrong way to go. It doesn't matter if it's a natural color like blonde, red, black, or brown, or an unnatural color like blue, green, pink, or purple. Any color can work. However, if you're going to have your mermaids have multicolored hair, remember that time factor in your setting. If it's a primitive setting, just let multi-colored hair be a natural thing. If the setting is medieval/renaissance, magic will make sense. If it's modern/futuristic, well that's pretty much up to you.

For hairstyles, it can be short, long, sheared, bald, trimmed, tied, or wraped. As long as the hair style can be done with just a comb, scissors/razor, or anything that can keep hair tied or wrapped, and can work. Also your mermaid's hair can be curly, straight, or wavy as long as it is naturally that way. And don't ever go with hairstyles that require gels, glues, or hairspray. Mermaids are in water most of the time and hair with product doesn't look good after being in water all the time. That means no bouffants, no spikes(as you can see, two types of mohawks are shown, one as just a natural mohican, and one that is spiked with gel), no beehives, and no teased out/backcombed 80's goth/new wave/punk do's either.