Serena - Mermaids

I started off my art journey/life when I was a kid. My mum had sketchbooks lying around, and I was growing up, and it made me aware from a young age you could create beautiful things just with your hands, and that’s what made me start drawing as a toddler, all the way till now.

The first things I started drawing were horses. This is at an age where I couldn’t draw, I was just drawing things I liked, saw. There was a cartoon about horses I watched, so I drew horses. There was also My Little Pony that I became obsessed with x-D. Then I saw The Little Mermaid, and I always drew mermaids, the same way, in the same position, the same face and hair and tail. Then I forgot about that and watched the Fast and Furious movies and got into cars.

Time went on, and I never thought about mermaids again, until a couple of weeks ago (August 2025) when me and family were talking about memories and things I used to draw, etc. And it dawned on me, since I actually got pretty good at drawing, selling commissions and prints, I’ve never ever revisited the mermaid. This drawing also isn’t the position I used to draw them; it’s completely the new modern version and as a first. First of many, I think/hope.

I really like how it turned out, and I for sure will create more mermaids, as although I didn’t draw them for decades, I was still always obsessed. Any movie that came out or TV show about mermaids, I always started watching. Anyway, that’s a very long-winded story about why I drew this mermaid.