Wow, I had no idea. That's cool. Feel free to criticize. This isn't by any means my best work or anything, as a matter of fact I can point out plenty of things wrong with it. This one was actually done with colored pencil. I did some pastel stuff earlier this year, and then added some water color and stuff, but I don't like using pastel cause it's too goopy and easily smeared (at least for what I do with it). This semester my teacher said I can just do like basically whatever I want (fish, of course...) since all I ever do anyway is tye in fish to whatever project she assigns us. I haven't done any oil paintings yet, so I'm gonna do one of them. Have you seen any of Guy Harvey's stuff (I'm sure you have)? That's what I would want to get to eventually (if I really decide to get into it more). Right now I've got pretty much the basic idea of shape, anatomy, coloring, etc. but I need to work on effects, like shading, reflection of the surface of the water, motion, maybe perspective... I'll photograph/scan a couple more and put em up for you guys.
-Brian