Anthias Mermaid Concept

I'm working on a new personal project - I've had the general idea in my head for a while now. Last night my boyfriend and I brain stormed (cause our ideas play well off each other) and I got the whole story down. I may turn this into an illustrated novel or a comic... or something.

So, today, I did a concept for it.

A random fish mermaid, based off of a Maldives Lyretail Anthias.
It started as a rough painting and with some edits, I "inked" it repainted it - and saved some progress shots.

I don't think I'll be adding a background, seeing as this is a LOW res image and was more of a test.

Both as a concept art for the story and some characters and as a test for some new photoshop brushes.