Stephen <mca### [at] aolDOTcom> wrote:
phic artist, and I don't think I ever will be. :-(
>

> looking at the images too long and see it differently than others would
> see it.

When I've been working/looking at a scene too long, every now and then I'll
'flip' it in Photoshop, to get a mirror-image of the scene. This presents a
wholly different viewpoint, and usually shows me where my composition is off.

Many times, my scenes start out with some 'simple' thing that I'd like to
see--with no real thought as to how it might develop--then I'll build on it
'organically'.  One thing leads to another, and before long I have a scene
that looks interesting and worth following. (It may even lead to eliminating the
original thing I started with!) As you can imagine, this is a *slow* way of
sketching out an idea; but it's a useful way when I don't have a clue as to what
I really want to create.

I would guess that most artists--in any medium--go though a great deal of
frustrating ideation (sketches, musical dead-ends, copying what others have
done, etc.) before hitting on something that 'works.' The audience only sees the
beautiful finished product, which seems to have arrived full-blown from nowhere.
 Not so! Yet the more an artist works and thinks, the better and faster he
becomes--like exercising a muscle.

Ken

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