Homo Octopus - another mermaid

This painting has been done for a tutorial I'm writing for psd magazine.
It's another mermaid, but I've done it on purpose since lots of people had asked me how to paint sea creatures/hair/translucent skin/gills (I've tried to put all these things in one picture).
I hope you'll like it
The composition may look unusual and a little bit empty but since I'm planning to use it as a wallpaper (you can also download it to use it as a wallpaper if you like it), I've put some "empty space" (not really empty, but dark enough to avoid being too distracting) on the right part (I have a mac computer.... for the PC users who would like to use it as a desktop wallpaper, you can flip it horizontally, I had totally forgotten that it was the contrary on windows....)
Enjoy


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