Quote - @ Acadia--Play around and slap something together.:woot: LOL 

Unfortunately my  creative process doesn't work like that.  When I feel a creative spark, it's literally a spark.  It's either there or it isn't.  Anything artistic (writing, drawing, computer stuff) I need to "see" in my mind's eye the finished project.  When I sit down to write a short story or poem, it's already in my head from start to finish and all I am doing is literally sitting there taking dictation from somewhere within the creative centre of my brain. The same goes for art. I see the finished image in my head and all I have to do is recreate what I'm "seeing". If I don't "see" it, I can't create it.

I also look at art differently than most people.  When most people look at an image they see the image. I "read" images/pictures. I don't see a whole image, I see components of an image, and only after I have read that image does my brain interpret it into a whole.

On a side note I do the same thing with perfumes/fragrances.  I never smell the final scent until after my brain has processed the individual notes to get to the core of the fragrance.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi