 This is the most common question I get, and I think people have the completely wrong intuition about this. Being free to imagine whatever I see is the easy solution, while deciding what to draw first is hard. So for instance, if I decide to draw a dragon and then make an ink blot, I need to be really lucky to get a random ink blot that suits making a dragon from. I can make it even harder for myself by making it more specific, and say for instance that the ink blot will be Sean Connery, and it almost certainly will become a bad Sean Connery. Or I can define it very loose like I do, and say I'm going to draw an ink monster. Then I have endless possibility, all in that one ink blot. So no, I don't decide what I draw before I make the ink blot, because I'd rather take the easy solution.