OK .... I THINK I'm kind of figuring things out here. Kind of. I could still reach for a more appealing style. I'm working on that.
One of the things that's so aggravating about art is that one tiny thing wrong throws the whole image and/or design. It just doesn't look 'right'. And sometimes you just don't have the energy to keep fixing minute wrong things and most of the time you can't even ID it in the first place.
But like, that's just what making art is like. There's no perfect, it's just tiny increments of better.