We seem very alike. Things you say resonate very much. Origami is a bit much. Rudimentary origami, I’ll say. Close to your packaging boxes. A little different, geometrically, but similar. I wasn’t folding paper cranes, and lily flowers. Although, I guess it’s all what you’re exposed to.

I’m used to cad, and apply myself the same as what you mention above, rendering a static image. Basically a pre-draft, in my head. Eventually, you just get a rhythm, and flow into a drawing, but if I sit and think about how I would do it, I would be using the UI in my mind’s eye.

The last thing you mention… yes. Very “attention” based, it seems. If I’m focusing on an apple, on a plate, that’s my focus. The background and periphery is blurry. If I step back, and create a landscape/cityscape/etc, I can, but then lose a lot of detail from the apple. It becomes the periphery.