My ideas usually come spontanious. I've got the feel of the image and the basic look in my mind. Then I just start doodling on paper or I start directly with modelling and texturing. I can work on the composition and lighting at any point during the project. I tweak composition and lightin as soon as I get an idea to improve things and that happens very often. The end result will still be the same the idea I had, it just takes a bit of fiddling to get there. An image can take anywhere from an hour to more then a month to create. I often scrap images, usually because I wasn't really making anything specific but just playing around. It also happens every once in a while that I have to stop a project after days of work because it's simply too complex for my computer to handle. Parts of ideas from scenes that were too complex will sometimes return in a simplified version in other images, so scrapping things does not always mean that the idea is lost too.

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