This turned out awesomely, @painted-bees.
Thank you for walking us through it, anyway, and for the description of the scene at the end.
I hope you consider this a compliment, because it's meant to be—in some of the stages the rather large creature here, Ishavan, I believe, looks like someone at Disney drew it. Very Disney-esque pre-CGI cartoon days.
Maika, the water sparkling, the columns, Ishavan—they all combine effortlessly into one wonderful work of art.