Ross wrote:

> 
> Over the months, never having submitted to IRTC, i've determined it's more
> fun to come up with ideas for images for the topic than it is to create it.
> I usually make a bunch of sketches and then they site around my desk for a
> couple weeks :/

Sketching is a good start.  Before I finally made my first entry I went 
for maybe four or five rounds where I got all excited by the topic and 
began scenes which I could never complete by the deadline.  It was in a 
way the most exciting time but extremely frustrating.  When I finally 
managed to stagger over the finish line with my first entry I was very 
excited to finally have posted something.  Looking back I wish I'd been 
more patient and systematically acquired necessay skills before I posted 
an entry.  But that does require making many images that never see the 
light of day, which can be very frustrating.  That is because there is 
really no way to simulate the demands of pulling together a whole scene, 
in response to a theme, in two months. I think you can systematically 
acquire skills, but then you have to take a real stab at an entry to see 
how these skills come into play. All the time you take your real stab at 
it you need be prepared to judge in the end whether the result is worth 
posting.  It's that superego  editing role that I am abysmal at.  Once I 
put a certain amount of effort into a scene, I just publish the damned 
thing usually to my regret later.:|

> 
> It's also more fun to view all of the images you guys submit :)

Do you vote on them?


> 
> 
> ...still hoping to submit one day.
> 

Two ideas that I got from Jaime Vives Piqueres keep me sane.  He often 
says something to the effect that it's all "just having fun", and also 
words to the effect that he pays attention too what he can actually 
accomplish.

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