Seeing the creative process in a new way

Same tree I've drawn before, this time in pencil

This made me feel better about how long it takes me to finish a work of art:

"That new idea is rarely the end of the creative process. The sobering
reality is that the grandest revelations often still need work. The
new idea, that thirty millisecond burst of gamma waves has to be
refined. The rough drafts of the right hemisphere, transformed into a
finished piece of work. Such labor is rarely fun, but it's essential.
A good poem is never easy, it must be pulled out of us, like a
splinter."
Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How creativity works