Mermaid and Merman ( no Ethyl, just a plain merdude )

This is a sketch of a painting I need to start right away. I've censored it just in case there is someone who may be offended by it. I was going to crop it but....honestly, it just looks like I've drawn a nude couple if you can't see the tails. Anyway, I had to redo this as the painting needs to be rather vertical so I had to un-curl the merman's tail to sort that out. I'm busy coloring it so that the painting can go smoothly. I am not liking the man's face just yet as the first sketch had him much more handsome. Now he just looks plain silly. I'll fix it, I just wish I had some reference to work off of. This is from several people. I took one arm from one picture, the face from another, another arm from another picture. It's almost barbaric the way I've "frankensteined" this together. But that's what I need to do to get this looking good. I hope I can do the color in the same way as that's crucial. I still have some shaping to do so I'd better get to it.
The background is awfully beautiful. I didn't have to do too much trouble photoshopping out the divers that littered the lovely undersea pictures that I found. Hopefully I can throw in all the lovely details into the painting. :)