Another dark background picture

I'm only posting this because it's another example of a picture whose "proper" orientation I can't determine. This picture is 5 1/2 X 3 1/2 inches. (Almost all of my small pictures are that size, because I cut paper to 6 X 4 inches and mask the boundary, leaving a crisp white border. Most of them are meant as practice pictures, though I probably have 150 or so that I liked enough to keep in albums.)

Here's the picture as it was originally oriented when I started it:

 

Next is how I actually like to look at it. It just seems more sculptural this way.

I want to do a large version of this, but in my head I see the form being one resembling a sort-of teardrop shape. If I could make one that appeared to be a droplet and below it have a kind of lozenge-shaped form that would resemble a fluid on a surface, I would love it. I have no idea how to go about that right now, and maybe I never will. All the little bits that go in take some time.... I'd probably have to even think about selecting a direction of light to suggest modeling of the overall form.... ugh, there are times when I wonder how people do this sort of thing and somehow produce "realistic" pictures!

It's interesting to me how a number of my pictures seem to take on a different appearance as the light changes in the room. This is one of those pictures. There are times when it almost seems to glow. Some days, late in the afternoon, the indirect light sort of "activates" some of the pictures on my walls. If I happen to be walking by at the right moment, I'll stop dead in my tracks and stare at the things, as if I'd never seen them before. It sounds boastful, I know, but it's at those moments when I think how glad I am that I took the time to make those pictures. (Although the pictures of the fish I posted below don't show it, the one that's brownish comes to life in the afternoon. Really wonderful when that happens.)