Thanks, every element had to be brought up as I worked, for consistent quality. It required an insane number of firings, too many to count, to maintain the vision of this piece!
It is not good to set a deadline on the mastery of a skill, synthesize it in your own way. You should always be striving to improve, to reach out for what seems like the unattainable, to dream the impossible dream, no matter how far, without giving up, it's a passionate quest you are driven by...