We've had the fortune of being the subject for two articles in the upcoming edition of Digital Studio Magazine (by Sommerset). While this is fantastic news, I have to admit it's a bit of a mind-tosser. (Not to be confused with a salad tossing, which is a whole other thing altogether.) What flips my brain is that during the process of interviewing, we've been asked to discuss our creative process from a technical point of view. I'm having to write the answers to the questions, so I'm struggling to put into words a process that seems ineffable. I mean you really have to stop and think about explaining to someone who doesn't breathe what it's like to take a breath. We take for granted what we do in creative flow. Most of the time it's as natural and as involuntary as breathing. We simply don't think about it. Know what I mean?

If you're creating from your heart, chances are you begin with an idea and follow it in a bit of a blissful (even if somewhat frustrated) haze rather than crystal clear awareness easily translatable into a step-by-step process. So here I am attempting to explain things like creating textures in Photoshop when, so often, they just kind of accidentally morph on the screen while we're playing around. Happy accidents are the corner stone of our art. If people knew how much we create while dangling from the seat of our knickers, they might be in for a shocker. Or not. We fly through air, sometimes with the greatest of ease, sometimes with atomic wedgies, but we do fly by the seat of the pants and we like it that way. I'm not sure that there's any other way for us anti-anal retentive rejects.

So I did what I could. It'll have to be good enough. I mean, on some level, the art's gotta speak for itself, yes? Never mind I'm a wordsmith and verbage is my trade. Sometimes even I have to resort to hand gestures and smoke signals. Some things just surpass language.

These are some of the images to be featured in the articles.

Look for it in the September edition of Sommerset's Digital Studio Magazine. By the way, we're also in the current edition of the mag. See that cover up there? The head of our "What You Think on Grows" is at the top of their cover and the original appears inside with a little "how to" section.