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But still, I have this voice in my head that is always telling me I should be painting!
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"Doing planning for a painting" IS "painting", and is far more productive than just slapping colors on a canvas with no forethought.
All that essential stuff (working out lighting problems, evaluating clothing choices, planning camera angles, deciding what it is you want to communicate, thinking about mood and how to support it with your composition, cropping, balance, thinking about sight lines -- all that stuff IS painting. Don't feel guilty about it. It's the most important part of "painting".
Every hour of careful thought at this point in the process will do more for the end result than any amount of fancy brushwork or color mixing will ever achieve on its own.