I like Ugly-cute, so an anglerfish seemed like a good option ;) 

played around with the lighting to try to get a 'deep sea exploration' type feel

will admit to not doing any texture painting, I watched the videos but just used the shader editor/materials for the project itself

Overall I enjoyed the course, will start the animation course soon :)

Thank you

 

PS. Image looked a bit better as a png than a jpeg, for example the point light is a less distinctive spot in png, but didn't seem to show here when png...