I usually start off with an idea, but the end results rarely ever include any of the initial items I began with.

I'd have an idea that I wanted to do something 'wacky', or 'elegant', or 'dark', etc...and maybe one or two items that I wanted to use. I'd put them on and then go from there.

Most of the time they just don't work though so I'd take them off again and by the time I'm done the end results look completely different from what I originally had in mind, sometimes not even the idea! I'd be trying to do something pretty and end up with something weird instead, like my last avatar where I was a mustached guy with tons of body hair chilling at the beach, when I had originally wanted to do something that was more 'spring-y' and with my avatar self considerably less hairy.
