Thanks for the long comment! :)
This was mostly speedpaint and partly concept; I rather see it as 'finished' although it's rough - though I may pick it up again someday - you never know!
Background is always good - it was refreshing not to do any this time, since I tend towards drowning the subject in background. If I ever work on this again, what would you suggest? Concrete wall? Starry sky?
Indeed the long straight thread is too thick...went slightly overboard there, I'd say. Maybe more threads would do the trick. Have the poor fish swinging from a spider's web or some such.
(It's SO straight because I actually used a ruler on my graphics tablet! xD I'm pretty good at drawing straight lines with pen and paper, but with the tablet.....nah. Definitely not the best.)
Very beautiful and interesting concept. I think it really could use some sort of background though. It deserves one.
Also, that thread or whatever you'd call it that it hangs from just doesn't have the same graceful and delicate qualities as the rest and seems a bit awkward because of it. I'm not sure what about it causes this but I do think that if you were to do anything more to this (and I really think you should; it's wonderful and deserves to be more "finished") you should try to "fix" that somehow. Too thick, perhaps... or maybe if it weren't so straight, and looked more as if it were being blown by the wind (so that it's a bit curved, I mean) Or both. But these are just suggestions, of course. Feel free to ignore me ^.~