Confession

I’m in web design about a year, but as I haven’t any art background, it’s very hard for me to make an icon or to draw something. I can imagine it in my mind...Just close my eyes and see the way it should be, but when I started to make it my imagination doesn’t work. So I have to open different icon stocks to see how other people did it. I have to confess that before starting to work I’m still searching for images and trying to find different techniques and sometimes even copy them. It’s very ashamed for me to confess such things, but I think this is the only way to learn.
Recently I was making icons for a bank which they didn’t approve. The waves on each icon represent part of their logo.