Jellyfish Friend · Transparency Through Overlap

SUBJECT
One friendly jellyfish character with a rounded bell, two small dark eyes, a tiny curved smile, and exactly four ribbonlike tentacles attached beneath the bell. Two central tentacles cross once below the face; the outer two hang separately.

COMPOSITION
Show the entire character frontally in a centered vertical frame, with the bell in the upper half and all four tentacle tips visible below. Keep generous empty space around the floating character against a plain warm ivory background.

STYLE GUIDE
1. Shape & line
Construct the bell as a soft inverted bowl with a gently scalloped lower rim. Draw four tapering ribbon tentacles with rounded tips, using thin blue-violet contours that become lighter along the bell's upper edge; keep the eyes and smile crisp enough to read immediately.

2. Color & light
Fill the bell and tentacles with pale aqua washes. At the central crossing, let the ribbon descending from image-left pass visibly in front of the ribbon descending from image-right, and deepen only their shared patch to blue-green while both ribbons remain traceable through it. Add a similarly deeper wash where the tentacle roots show through the bell's lower rim.

3. Texture & material
Render the translucent jelly as layered digital watercolor with broad soft washes, subtle paper grain, and a few softened pigment blooms near the rim. Leave a broad pale highlight on the upper-left curve of the bell, and retain background warmth through the thinnest tentacle tips rather than covering them with opaque paint.

4. Composition
Place the single tentacle crossing in the open space directly below the smile, where its darker overlap is easy to inspect. Curve the two outer tentacles outward to frame this crossing, keep their tips separated from the central pair, and leave the background free of scenery so the layered transparency remains the focal feature.

PRIORITY
Preserve the requested identity, count, action, composition and output settings. Apply the style rules within those constraints; a style reference must not replace the subject or layout. Within the style: Make the darker transparent overlaps readable before adding decorative detail.

AVOID
Avoid opaque fills and hard glasslike reflections that hide the layered washes.

OUTPUT
Create one finished digital watercolor character illustration in a 4:5 portrait aspect ratio, with no lettering, captions, logos, or watermark.

SELF-CHECK
Confirm that four tentacles remain traceable and their single crossing visibly deepens the color.