2. Completion

(the label "the learned" collects things that are important insights for me and changed the way I go about creating artworks)

2. Unfinished forever...
Are carefully arranged, insanely detailed illustrations really that good? What about the viewer's space?

Artwork is not finished, until it has been discovered and "completed" by a viewer. To control every last line and to tell everybody, that the illustration can serve but one purpose, might work in many cases and should work if it is wished in the briefing, but... if you find the freedom to let chance take her turn and invite the viewer, everybody should win. Even better, if one can reach an audience, that is willing to open up for the art.