> hear what other people think early enough that I can avoid mistakes
> I might be blind to.

  Some time ago, I've read a book with a collection of Da Vinci
writtings (well, "suposed" Da Vinci writtings), and some chapters were
dedicated to teach painters how to work. For the problem of being blind
to one mistakes, Leonardo recommended to look at your picture trough a
mirror. The unusual point of view helps to find things we were missing,
bcos we examine it more carefully, as if it were the first time that we
see that picture.

  I tried it my self, obviously not looking trough a mirror, but
flipping horizontally the image in a paint program, an it do works!
Also, for non-centered compositions, it helps to find if your particular
arrangement looks better from left to right or viceversa. It can sound
stupid, but in some scenes there is a difference, altough I can't tell
where it resides.  

-- 
Jaime Vives Piqueres

La Persistencia de la Ignorancia
http://www.ignorancia.org/

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