Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) - watercolor on paper

 Thinking about drawing something for fun. Wild form guppies were selected.

I started with a pair:

I tried to use watercolor pencils at first few sketches but felt it pretty uncomfortable (never used it before) so I returned to watercolor.

I decided to add one more male of snakeskin form:

The pelvic fin of the first male was wrong so I "deleted" it with white and re-drew.

Adding more details:

The position of fins on the second male were not very correct but anyway, it's not "taxonomic drawing" :-).

I mostly draw fish specimens on a bare background. This time I tried to add a background:

Adding more details (fin rays):

 

I mostly draw fin rays on a fin background painted in advanced. This time I did the opposite: drawing the spaces between fin rays to "create" fin rays.

 Also, the dark background make the fish become too bright, I have to "darken" them a little bit.

The whole drawing on paper (30 x 40 cm):

Drawing a few branches of Ceratophyllum dermesum behind the males:

I intended to add some more "green thing" but blurred on the left side, but then I stopped (lazy!).

That's it!

Update: I found out that I forgot to draw the pectoral fins of all 3 fish! I added those and also drew the Vallisneria cf. spiralis on the left side.

The scanned drawing (all above images are photos while drawing, not scanned):

I only have A4 scanner so the drawing have to be scanned in 2 passses. Merging 2 images is not perfect because the paper after painted was not completely flat but curved a little bit.