This is the most common question I get and I think people have the completely wrong intuition about this. Being free to imagine whatever I see is the easy solution while deciding what to draw first is hard. So for instance, if I decide to draw a dragon and then make an inkplot, I need to be really lucky to get a random inkplot that suits making a dragon from. I can make it even harder for myself by making it more specific and say for instance that the inkplot will be Sean Connery. And it almost certainly will become a bad Sean Connery. Or I can divide it very loose like I do and say I'm gonna draw an ink monster. Then I have endless possibility all in that one inkplot. So no, I don't decide what I draw before I make the inkplot because I'd rather take the easy solution.