What I saw and what it became are imaginations apart.
I am a photographer sometimes and a digital artist at other times. I use the various tools – lens and software – to create my own world. Artistic vision lives, for me, in the mind. When I photograph something for a print or “straight” image what I really see are levels of contrast and forms. When I create Some digital art the forms, contrast, and colors seem to “swim” to a place they want to be. Letting the forms migrate to where they want to be as the colors to morph into the shades they prefer come from the artistic vision portion of my mind. Most often this is not a calculated process but something organic that just happens.