Dragon wash

Everyone needs a bit of help getting scale mites off, even sea dragons. So this guy stopped on the reef to get his scales picked clean by cleaner fish.

Remember that sketch I did ages ago? [link]
Well I finally painted it after enlarging it a bit. Took me a week, on and off to get it done because I haven't painted in so long, but I'm rather satisfied with the end result, although the scan came out horrible the colors are really less red and more purple. will see if I can get it right at some point. Dragon's colors were inspired by an actual sea dragon, the weedy sea dragon I think, should look them up they're cool.

image is 11x15inches, water colors and a tiny bit of Prisma colors used on the cleaner fish due to their size, everything else is purely done with watercolors.

Image (C) me