Show us your tail designs!

[Hydra1337]

No problem. I can't wait to see the tail when it's done.

[frozenbutterflywings]

Thank you!

[mermaid mazu]

this is my koi fish inspired tail that I'm just starting to make

[Kait]

Oh yay I love koi designs. Looks great hun

[mermaid mazu]

Ty I have a tattoo sleeve with koi, a geisha, and dragonflies so the koi pattern seemed a natural fit lol

[Finnley]

I'm not that great at drawing(or designing), But here's what i came up with;



It's all blue, Since it's my favorite color.

I gotta work at my tail drawing skills

[Chios]

Here's a design I've been playing with. It would way a ton because of those ridiculous hips fins though, so not something that will come true in the near future, but maybe someday.

[Mermaid Summerlilly]

I'd love to see that someday! It's beautiful! But no kidding, that thing would weigh a ton. :P

[PearlieMae]

Even if you managed to do it light, say with chiffon, the drag would kill you.

Beautiful, though!

[Maralie97]

Lorelei design


Beck design


Cho design

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[PearlieMae]

LOVE the full body designs!

[mermaid mazu]

this is my design concept for my next tail. It's going to be kind of dragon inspired

[Mermaid Momo]

Can I have some help? I'm getting ready to make a new tail because I've gained so much weight there's no way I can even pull my current one up past my butt, but I can't figure out the color pallet! I just bought this paracord as corset lacing and realized I would love to have a tail with these colors but when I drew it out it looked like a plain old rainbow tail

[Elle]

Can I have some help? I'm getting ready to make a new tail because I've gained so much weight there's no way I can even pull my current one up past my butt, but I can't figure out the color pallet! I just bought this paracord as corset lacing and realized I would love to have a tail with these colors but when I drew it out it looked like a plain old rainbow tail

Do you remember Raven's tail with the merfin fluke? It was rainbow coloured but more vibrant than these colours

[Mermaid Momo]

The irridescent tail? I remember that one, I really love the way she paired the pastel colors on it, but I don't want to copy the tail And I know that even if the colors a slightly similar people will say I'm ripping her off.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

This is my new tail that I'll be making once I'm all caught up with college work... Who knew part time courses still had a ton of homework... I HATE HOMEWORK!!!
It will be for the foil monofin.

[Mermaid Kelda]

Momo, what about differently coloured scales, a la rainbow fish?

[Takahao]

This is my current design so far - I'm gonna try and make a Aqua Man costume for Halloween this year, maybe I can get away with making a tail for this. But I'm not sure.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

This is my current design so far - I'm gonna try and make a Aqua Man costume for Halloween this year, maybe I can get away with making a tail for this. But I'm not sure.

Nice work!!

One thing to help with drawing tails, is a croqui. I started using a croqui for my college course and oh boy, it has helped a lot when designing swimwear and tails.

If you don't know what a croqui is, it is a paper model that you trace around with paper to draw your pattern.

I normally just draw one side, then use tracing paper to draw the other side. Drawing the other side without tracing paper NEVER looks the same as the first side!

[Takahao]

Thanks. The left side was an attempt at a contour drawing of myself, or in other words, similar to a croqui like you said. The tail design on the right was just eyeballed with the symmetry tool in Krita. I'm trying to make it more draconic in appearance, I'm thinking a pauldron, diadem, and some forearms could add to that effect. Either that, or I'm kinda wanting to go for a Percy Jackson "son of Poseidon" kind of vibe.