Joseph Stephano I have always considered myself primarily as a painter and illustrator, meaning mostly visual parts of my brain are active while being involved in the creative process. To be able to visualize is a great gift, coupled with one's ability to visually express yourself even greater. After a week or so, of struggling to find some story in the most boring footage you could possibly imagine, I've realized that the creative process is the same for both, painting, and writing. This was a real mind - opener, and I spend next several days thinking about it. I know it sounds complicated, as a matter of fact, it is .
Rough ideas are the first, initial phase of the creative mind.
Here's where you play with shapes, here's where some of the most important decisions are made as far as the composition and overall balance of the work is concerned. When you have your compositional issues resolved, you proceed to a stage two. This have nothing to do with drawing. When I work on color sketch, this is always very fast, because what I'm aiming at is the overall impact of the painting. Rarely do I work on color sketch more than thirty minutes.