Mermaid Work In Progress

I've been working on this painting bit by bit in between school work and its killing me that I cant give it my full attention! I'm going to force my self to stop and do some actual work now! I thought I would just post a tiny preview :) The character is from my period character design pack which was 17th century pirates. I'm really trying to find the happy medium between a fully rendered and graphic approach (if that makes sense) Well we will see how this turns out in a few weeks I guess!