the knowing when to stop is hard to learn I think because it is not a rule etched in stone. In the end I don’t believe there is one perfect stopping point for any project, there is only the getting to know yourself well enough to judge this effort as sufficient. Some of my most interesting work in times past has come about not so much from know when to stop, but from not knowing what else to do.

While surfing the web I came across a painter who does all his work in large scale digital painting, making thousands of layers for each picture. His knowing when to stop would not work at all for me.

The thing I like about doing digital art with photos or just starting with a blank file in photoshop is that if I save regularly I can have many stopping points- or in many cases many starting points.

Robert