I need some advice. I drew in the borders and started hatching them in a way that's consistent with the light coming directly from the right side. On the left and right borders, this works quite nicely. However, I am not really happy with the top border. Before I do the bottom one, I want to ask what you all think of it and how I might improve it. I was thinking of maybe extending the hatch lines all the way across the rope to give it a more uniform texture and differentiate it from the background, or I could try and make the hatches on the top and bottom borders run vertically. Any suggestions?

I'm also looking for ideas to add punch to the compass, because right now I think the border out-embellished it and it definitely needs some more texture.

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GLS, I tried putting a tiny bit of shading under the trees. I've also cleaned up some of the pencil construction lines that were still hanging around.