Thanks for the comments and questions. For the most part I have to say a lot of it is happy accidents combined with my recent art theory, and then just letting my imagination go. I didn't plan it, I just starting drawing and it happened.I am trying to use values (shades of grey) to express perspective and to separate negative space when starting illustrations these days. That helps a lot with the overall "design" of things. I've also been itching to draw some more human characters recently because it has been a while as you can see in my gallery, and particularly I have been neglecting female characters, so I tried to express a female form here. After I drew her silhouette she needed something, so the halo and particles just came to be to fill in the emptiness and add some meaning.But it's not to detract from the magic of it all, I did have a lot of thought put into it, but it is spur of the moment and "stream of conscious" so I don't really want to apply reason to it. I like flying islands and floating things recently. I like this groupMaybe it's a statement on freedom of spirit. I had a death in the family recently that came to mind during the work process too.I like how the objects are placed with even distribution around the canvas. There is a sort of "weight distribution". The main character is not dead center, but she is placed well to balance her weight and importance. There is some reason for all of these things but not so easy to explain.I thought that this might just be the foundation for a complete work with a lot more detail too, like you are saying, but I just couldn't see it through, I thought it felt perfect just like this. Maybe this is actually just "how I am" as an artist right nowI really feel tired of going into detail when there is really no reason for it. I am not trying to be a concept designer really. It seems that way sometimes, but it's not really the case.Everything is complicated and each thing has many reasons, maybe that's why I liked the minimalism too. It feels good to simplify.When everything is free, why try to lock it up?I'm glad you asked these questions, it made me realize some things. I used to wonder why many artists seem to put chains on flying islands, particularly "chains". Now I think it all makes sense. It was the free spirit being chained down. Or maybe that's just my interpretation.I had to look up Porter and Patapon, both very cool.