When I was in art school out instructor told us to create what he called an agent. According to him, this agent was to be used as a traveler or a witness. We were to use this agent to see things for us. It was to travel around the world and space and report to us what it saw. Then we were to draw whatever it saw. This was a way to fuel out imaginations. A weird concept, but I went with it.
I was into unicorns at the time, so I drew one. It was white, but white was too bland. I put stripes on it. How was it to travel around the universe without wings? So I added those too.
She was more than a unicorn with wings. She was a Zebracorn. I named her Bluefire.