Jellyfish

So in the past couple weeks I've gotten started with pastels.  I've done a few little bits, nothing finished, nothing successful, just sketching it out trying to play with things.  I haven't done this enough, but decided THIS week is the week I'm getting on with it all, and did a thing from start to actual finish!







Totally pleased with this, much better than I had expected for my first full effort.  It's a complete rip-off and duplicate (R&D, my favorite tactic) of something I stumbled over a few months ago on Reddit:







which itself is an R&D of this image:







I mostly copied the original, even though the copy was the initial inspiration.  The whole thing took me about 5 hours to complete.  I look at my finished thing and think, yeah! I might have aways to go, but I think I can learn how to art!