@admiredvex thank you! tbh this detail came to my mind without much thought, haha. you can look at it like the wraiths supporting phantom's life, or like phantom's leaving their mask and pin behind, accepting death
@_aftab_drawing I had another thought I'd like to add: to keep the focus on hornet, the area around her is the lightest and free from other details, while the rest of the piece is darker and filled with small but similar details (plants)
@_aftab_drawing here I first put hornet in the upper right (not-quite) third, and then simply made the sea plants follow the same movement, in a way that felt natural at the moment