Most people know Tintin (german: Tim und Struppi) comic books from Hergé. I was into them for several years and lent them from libary (i was a child with no money back in the days). Now my girlfriend read my most secret dream and bought me my first own Tintin comicbook. And this really impressed me! The cast, but mosty the illustration with that great french/belgium kind of comicstyle is very great. The details and the storyboard: all is very round up. Now imagine the process of making this comics. The book i have is from 1954. At that time there were no computers. All tools Hergé had was his head, his imagination and pencils. And with that very basic tools he made such lovely worlds in stlye of adventure comicbooks. It somehow reminds me on Jules Vernes stories. That imagination and fantasy inside it is just overwhelming.

That is the basic idea of creating something wierd. Is is somehow independent from tools.

Also in the digital domain the creative artists need mostly the following:
- basic tools, where he/she is very good at (crafting skill)
- his mind that keeps imagination and discipline together (mind skill)

I also recommend that you take a look at mediumphobic.