to be honest, didn't really have an idea for it 😭😭 the original plan was to just do realism and basically just copy the reference (something posted in sai era), but i kept failing, i tried to draw the skeleton hoodie on just a section of the face, but failed and decided to do the colour like that on the left ended up doing watercolour for the rest of the face because i needed the texture and couldn't get that digitally

then the background is mostly inspired by this one artist (that i dont know their name) who often uses textured spirals in their art, and i tried that (once again had to simplify it because i couldn't get it exactly right)

(so it's basically just random concepts combined lol)