B12

My making process is a jumbled mess of learning and implementing. It all starts with an idea for something that I think need improving or making. From there I will do research. I try to learn what is necessary to get going on this idea, but there is only so much you can learn from a computer. From there I start making. I will normally have some kind of idea for what I want the finished product to look like, but it is very rare that it actually ends up looking like that. I will start out with a piece and start adding to it. I will test and meddle with it as I go along trying to get what ever I am making to work to the best of its ability in its present condition.

For me, making is just as much about learning as it is about the finished product. Whats the point in making something if you don't know how it actually works in the end. So as I work I try to  also learn as much as possible. That is the biggest reason why I my finished project is not what I imagined in the beginning. Through every step and modification, I learn something. I try to use that knowledge to as I go make it better. For my trying to guess my result is like trying to guess the answer of a math problem with out doing or even knowing the steps to get there. 

There is also always a point where in my making process when I get frustrated with something and every part of me wants to give up, but most of the time I don’t. That is because I have gone through that enough times to know, that if you power through that problem, something amazing is aways going to come out of it.