((Please Click to enlarge to see at the details)) Time for putting on the details. The fins, the scales, and hair. Shells and starfish and sand dollars. This step will cover tips for adding all these little details that will really make your mermaid come to life. First the scales. This will be perhaps the most tideous part of your picture...if you cover the whole tail with them, however, you don't have to cover the whole tail. Patches of different shapes and sizes will work just fine, but you still don't want the scales to be too big. You'll want to zoom in and do all the little scales close up so you don't make them oversized and awkward. For the hair, you'll want to pick a center point and work radially from where the roots would be. This will give her hair a fuller more detailed look, instead of a flat look. You don't have to do the lines all the way through, you really need them at the ends of the strands and at the roots. Shells come in all shapes, from clam shells to conch shells. They also come in different sizes and can be as small as your fingernail, or as big as your head, or even bigger. They are curvy and elegant with no square edges. They come in two types, bi-valves, the ones that open up like a butterfly, and the round shells like the ones that you'd find on snails and periwinkles. Starfish are easy. They are just that, a star, but with a bit of fat to it. It's skin is somewhat spiny, covered in rough little bumps. Sand dollars are easy too, round with a hole here or there and a flower like indent radiating the center. The bottoms are covered with little spines. Fins are thin and delicate, translucent. Notice how you can see through it to the body behind it ever so slightly. Also there are very thins structural veins that support the fins. It's like the veins in a leaf or a bug's wing.