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Random mermaid
The first draft never holds up to the concept, the notes, the plan. But the first draft is simply another step along the way. Build on it. Treat it as a framework, an open world, the platform on which to go back to the concept art and fill in all the rest.

'A fair distance' for a sphinx is, like, on the other side of a decently-sized ocean.