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If you start your work with a seed or spontaneous idea and you immediately get started on it, there's going to be a lot of fits and starts as you're working on it, and your original idea won't survive. Solutions will arrive along the way, and you will work from those solutions, and in the end you'll have something that won't resemble the original idea. Of course, there have always been artists who were so skilled that they could work from their sketches, and the finished painting would resemble the sketch. But if you're working abstractly, where you're “pulling” ideas out of the air in the moment, you don't really need a sketch. Sometimes you can prepare the sketch after you finish the work. I'm always reminded of the sculptor Tony Smith, who is known for making the plans for his sculptures after they have been built and installed. So once you've resolved the work, you can further resolve it by creating the starting point, even though it wasn't the original starting point. You can build a structure without a blueprint, and it will be perfectly fine, but in order to make it official, you would create the blueprint from your finished piece