When I started working on this image (this is the first color sketch) I thought it was so right and was hugely happy. The whole thing just seemed to glow, it hung, as I like to say.

After a month of hard slog in which I abandoned it countless times I eventually settled on something entirely different.

So, whats the point?

I think its that as an artist you have to keep an open mind, it is the journey that leads to the destination and without one the other is meaningless. Without an open mind we force ourselves to repeat mistakes and follow useless leads and directions.

Without an open mind we would always be stuck in one place that didn't allow for change or growth. It may be a place that we like to be, but even the things we like to be must be discarded eventually if we are to go forward.

And the point? Well, thats usually the sharp bit at the end...