The water looks great! I love the textured you used, and the sletchy quality~

Thank you, that's very kind qwq~ I did what I could and I've been worried that the looser work I've been doing lately maybe isn't exactly the greatest. But I much prefer the flow feel rather than my prior rigid frustrating structure.

Well, it turned out great! It does indeed flow very well-- its easy to look at and guides the eye. I personally prefer rougher structure, as it's a bit more organic. I struggle with rigidity, myself!

I think the biggest tricks for me was using a more refined sketch for lines and mostly coloring everything on "one layer", sometimes making a temporary new layer and merging down when it'd be too much trouble otherwise. But I just kinda work back to front, and its been very helpful in a lot of ways. You're quite the artist yourself though so I'm confident you'll find what you're looking for in your process <3

Thank you for the insight into your process! I work in Photoshop, and a lot of my paintings tend to get up to 50+ layers ^^; maybe simplification is the key, there. I'll give it a shot!

Looks great! We've talked at length how much I enjoy your style, but I'll say it again here for posterity.

Thank you-- things are looking up and I'm just doing my best

Well the results are looking great. n.-.n