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-Describe your typical creative process, from getting an assignment to finished piece.  Describe what you think your creative process should be like.  

My normal creative process begins with my trying to create a finished piece actually.  I'll go into detail about what I think it should look like and then I'll break it down.  I cannot visual things very well if they appear rough or messy.  Once this finished piece is done, I'll take a pen or pencil and begin to mark it up pointing out perspective, or relations within the piece.  Then I'll begin to brain storm what else I can put into the work to make it more visually pleasing.  I've normally created this on photoshop and will add in different types of colors in order to see which works best.  I do this easily using layers and turning off some rather than others.  Once I've decided on the color scheme, I allow that to influence my background design. Finally, when everything has been set, I sit down and draw out the finished piece.

- Research and describe a professional creator's creative process (this person need not be a visual artist.  Dancers, writers, film directors, and so on, may have analogous and equally illuminating views on creation).

Johannes Voß is an artist from Germany.

"You'd be surprised by how many people ask something as unspecific as this. There's really not much to reply to this other than: Play around with things, spend time learning and experimenting, be aware that frustration might be coming your way in fairly decent amounts. Practice, practice, practice, read, think, practice."

In a recent tutorial of how he works, Johannes pointed out that he lays out his composition with black and white color first, deciding how it will be built.  After this, he takes a sloppy hand to finding a bit more detail of where figures will be placed as opposed to the darkened areas he already laid out.  Once this is established he perfectly blocks in color, making note of how dark one grey object is to another grey object.  He begins work on detailing the background followed by detailing the middle and foreground.  When this is done he lays in color with several layers until he finds the desired texture.  Once the color is in, he begins details by using the color.  At the very end he scopes out the piece and refines little pieces that he may have missed.

On a side note, Johannes believes art school is a waste of time.  At this current point I disagree with him, but find it a little odd.  In a recent interview he stated, "Why was art school a waste of time?" Well, it just stems from how a day looks studying at home compared to in school. School: Travel there, talk to peeps, wait idly for lecture to start, listen to boring stuff, heckle with profs, walk from room to room, draw a bit in between. At home: Get up, draw, sleep. So you just get way more practice in if you're learning by yourself. Also it doesn't cost a hundred grand."