You put together a jigsaw puzzle by looking for the tiniest details—the exact shape of a bump, a single line of blue. None of these details gives you a sense of the picture you are creating. But without determined attention to the little fussy details, the picture never gets built.
Are you someone who focuses on the big picture or the fine details? What do you learn when you pay attention to the version that doesn’t come naturally?
“Jigsaw” puzzles as they have been called fascinate and frustrate. Certainly, when one begins the process of assembling, the overall illustration challenges. Looking as carefully as possible at the colors, textures, shapes and other features allows for an understanding of where groups of pieces will fit together. However, when the task of putting the pieces into place begins, it requires a closer look at the specific pairs of pieces which fit together. This is the real heart of the matter since without this closely organized process, the project will fail. What I’m arriving at, I believe, is that it takes both types of perception to arrive at a successful outcome. First, a concept, later attention to detail.