So back to the drawing board.. In addition to what jbark mentioned, my glyphs were kinda meaningless and weren't even matching the petal frequency, so here's some updates. I'll texturize and integrate it but just putting it out there now so you'll know not to start working on the old design.
I wanted to mention, this forum uses a very strong compression for jpg attachments, and so far I've been able to reduce them using a subtle Surface Blur in PS, but if we keep sending these back and forth the artifacts are just gonna pile up.. So I suggest from now on, in addition to attaching the jpgs for display, we also attach a rar/zip that has all the files in it. Not necessary for sketches like this but for our main working files atleast.