I'm more of a writer. I have a vivid imagination, but translating what's in my head to paper in an illustration can be challenging for me. I can cheat and feed an engine a vivid written description to get a baseline image. Then I can 'shop that to fully realize the idea I have in my head. I don't post a lot of that because I kinda feel like it's cheating, but for my use case (like these) it's just fine.
When I paint, it's far more organic and fluid. I'm an abstract artist, so conveying the idea of a piece doesn't require the same tight definitions of objects. for example, I can approximate a human shape and get the idea across it's a person without having fully defined a human being. The most rigid I get is when I'm space painting. You kinda have to make planets spherical and stars bright or it doesn't make any sense. (I've shared a lot of my paintings on this thread before)
We all create in ways that work best for us. The common spark is the drive we all feel inside to express our ideas.
