While in University I took a great Philosophy class on "Aesthetics: What is Art".

We read books and essays by the finest minds int he field.  We discussed at length hypothetical situations, like If an elephant steps in paint and walks over a canvas, is it art?  What if it is placed in a Natural History Mueseum, what if it is placed in a New York art gallery?  Or, If an artist hands a piece of beutiful driftwood that he just found on the beach to a curator of an art gallery and tells him it is a donation and to call it 'Driftwood', is it art?

I'll save you the time and money, there was no conclusive answer.

A great exercise in thinking, though, and a great introduction to the fact that there are as many different definitions as there are people.

There are also many ways to go about creating "art".  Many of the greatest sculpters throughout history never sketched out their ideas, they "let the stone" dictate their movements,  They let the clay, be their "muse".

I do sketch out my ideas before hand about half the time.  Usually this is because I get an idea while at work or first thing in the morning and I don't want to loose it.  I also sometimes just sit down and scroll through my runtime and see what strikes me.

Is one piece more art than the other?

I'll let the philosophers decide.