Me either. In fact a large part of why I took up this hobby was to learn how to make a pleasing image. I am driven by the memory of looking at an abstract picture and commenting to my (now) wife that I really liked what I was looking at. She asked 'You know why you like it, don't you?' All I had to say was ...
... no. Then she proceeded to explain it to me.
I start here
https://www.bonsainut.com/attachments/20230328_185610-jpg.478973/ and ask myself if this is interesting. Ummm, maybe, but there is that pruning wound. Would it look good as an uro (hole in the trunk)? Meh, probably not. Even when it is eventually grown over (by letting the the trunk/stem continue to run), it is not likely to be anything other than a distraction. So what do we have by looking at the base of the tree from another side (so that this wound is not visible)?
On the opposite side we see this:
View attachment 479043 An eye poker; That is, branch coming straight at me (yikes!). But we could turn it a little bit this way or that to alleviate that problem. Now, what might be interesting? That branch coming forward has a very low node, which means we could prune it to get buds to release and grow two new shoots from it. This would make for a short little tree that shows off (or will focus attention on those roots - are those interesting? I suppose they could, if we try t make something like seen in Beetlejuice (one of my fav movies, btw).
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https://bogleech.com/scrapbook/beetlejuiceart&psig=AOvVaw2doIF01Ul-6fidjkjkpCe9&ust=1680141159365000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA8QjRxqFwoTCMDeqtqDgP4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE.
There, otherwise, doesn't seem to be anything that leads to an interesting bonsai base and trunk here, so lets look elsewhere. You can air layer to make roots wherever you would like (in principle, anyway). What we want to look for is a spot where you say, 'this is nice, it would be cool if this stem was coming out of the ground right here. There is a node about 4 (maybe 6) inches up where the lowest branches might be, where the trunk could them move this way or that. One makes taper by 'chopping' just above a node, then growing on of the stems to be the next section of the trunk (the trunk below won't thicken much until this shoot from it is nearly as thick). If one succeeded making air layers by girdling the stem at the two points indicated in red,
View attachment 479059 the chunk in between would pretty much be what I just described. Do it now, and you could have it, and the piece above potted before fall. You could screw each to a board when you repot them in spring 2024 (fresh adventitious roots are usually too fragile to do this stuff immediately) and be on the road to developing great root flare (or nebari). If you're 'seeing it' during this season, you could even carefully wire that shoot (now or this summer) to go where you imagine it should to make an interesting future trunk line.
Meanwhile, let those other stems grow/thicken. Maybe you find something more. At any rate, this is my/the process.
Fundamentally, you are trying to find something that is, or that you can make into, an interesting trunk. Everything else can be grown from it to make it look good. IMO, the most interesting parts are what I see through the foliage - little peeks here and there. But I think my eye and everyone else's goes to the trunk and nebari below. Look at trees you like and ask yourself why it is interesting. Try to make a tree that does that. It probably doesn't turn out well. Ask yourself why. Try to change it so that it looks better. Yada, Yada, Yada. This is how I do bonsai and I think it is fun. Now a few smile back at me. They were so ugly for so long. Most still are.
Ansel Adam's didn't take only a few hundred fabulous photographs. He took thousands and most were trash. It is the price for getting there.
A hidden benefit of bonsai (provided that you keep it alive) is that you can keep trying with the same tree, again and again and again, until you get it right. Don't limit yourself to just one. It will come.