Snakes Vs. Moose

Alright, so this was a class project for Illustration Studio. The teacher had a us pick a random word out of a hat and illustrate the word. First we did a few thumbnails, then the teacher told us which two he wanted to see in a "tighter sketch." So anyway i don't really remember all my ideas, but i got the word "Luck." I ended up doing a final sketch of a woman playing russian roulette with a bunch of dudes and her posse. I was really excited about it, and then the teacher dropped a bomb on us.
"Ok, now i want you to switch sketches with somebody else." So I received a haggard drawing of something that resembled a snake and a moose in some sort of....something. When my classmate described the image to me it made sense of course... Anyway, we had to finish the other person's idea to complete the project. This post is my outcome.
This was really the first time i got into colored pencils, and I used canson paper. I should have picked a darker paper, to make the colors pop more. It all ends up looking kind of flat, but I was pleased with my composition and the accuracy of the moose (maybe not so much the snakes). Since I couldn't really go observe a moose, I just looked up a bunch of images for reference and created one that I thought I looked believable.
All in all, I was pretty satisfied with the project, I just wished the colors weren't as flat. Whatever, I'm not done learning yet am I?