Moving Past the Old

As an illustrator, you go through many sketches and pencils. Pounds of draft paper later and you have the finished piece, but what happens to all of those ideas you just scrapped? They all get put away in a folder, on that random external hard drive that you always seem to forget. That's how it is with me! A lot of them are truly terrible concepts or ideas but some of them are real gems. 

All illustrations/ sketches by Jacqueline Davis Moranti

Going through my folder, I found a ton of sketches, many of them unfinished. Sometimes I tell myself that I'll go back to some of them and re work it, but that's really just me shooting an arrow in the dark! As a creative thinker, my mind is constantly thinking of new concepts, to look back at old ideas feels like i'm taking a step backwards even if i'm trying to push a new idea on it. I guess it's something I can disclose to reality, out with the old and in with the new. I feel like lately, I'm reminding myself of this theory. Dear readers,  has there been a time when you had to discard something to introduce something new?