I am going to try to draw something every day this month, based on the prompts for #inktober. Today's prompt was "Fish". 

It's fun for me to see these images about to be published, because I suddenly see all the ways the drawing isn't ready for publication haha. In this case, I need to go back over the shading - in particular, the fins look too flat because I haven't really done the forward parts brighter than the backward parts, and I should probably go over the fish's body with a mind toward making the shadows and contrasts stronger.

Here's the original photo, for comparison:

This is a Smithsonian photograph. I would love to have been able to insert it as a link while still displaying the image in here. I know how to do that in raw HTML, but not in this interface. Oh well. This will have to do.

Anyway, HTML aside, it's a tricky thing trying to create the contrast between bright yellow and bright blue, using just pencils. I am sure it can be done, but I have not yet learned the trick of it. And it's clear that the original image is three dimensional; I would like to be better at rendering that in my drawings.