The Lowest Depths of Cute

So I wanted to do something that was shamelessly cute: it's a merbaby! It's a big contrast to what I'm currently working on for my thesis...some ugly, fearsome, Nordic Frost Giants. I designed this like a spot illustration for a chapter book, I'm very happy to be integrating text into my pieces.

The story is that our merbaby is the the long awaited heir to the thrown. The Sea King had only fathered mermaids, siren and other types of sea nymphs until that point. I didn't really think of much more of a story than though. After googling merbabies and merchildren, I was surprised that I didn't find a bigillion storybooks on the little guys.