Tank and Dashie(coloured)

Finally finished this, it took me nearly 2 months to get around to it with a rather hectic summer season. But it's done. I'm still experimenting with ways to do decent gradient skies with coloured pencils and blend them better.  Admittedly I'm not happy with the sky gradient. One of the lessons we learn as artists though is that we'll never be 100% happy with what we create because after each piece we can spot so many little flubs we now have the knowledge to do better next time. Just have to  move forward and keep it in mind. This is also the first time I've drawn rough water below. I was inspired to draw this pic after watching  the first episode of Painting with Bob Ross on netflix.  I wanted to try  a bit of the techniques he used while painting and see if they'd translate to  coloured pencils well enough. What do you guys think? Also feel free to  critique below if you have any tips to improve things. CONSTRUCTIVE criticisms only please.

EDIT: this made it to the equestria daily drawfriend post for today. www.equestriadaily.com/2016/08…