I thought they were pretty sound. I did have a thought, though, and that is that since coming up with insightful and polite comments IS work, most of the writing groups I know have a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" policy and I think maybe it would be helpful to address both the fact that critiquing IS work, and that a good way to get critiques is to give them -- enourage reciprical critiquing, in other words. Another thing. In encouraging critiques, I've often heard that critiquing checklists can be helpful. I wouldn't know how to create a critiquing checklist for graphic artists, but I can easily dig one up for writing. In short how did you find their... Grammar, Spelling, Point of View, Characterization, Conflict, Setting, Descriptions... What would the graphics equivelent be? Consistancy of style, mood, composition/balance, details, lighting, emotional impact? (BTW, I don't think I'm a troll, but I don't have a gallery, and although I had hoped to get some stuff up in the beginners section soon, it looks like I won't be able to. This machine can't run any of my graphics programs, it's too old and wimpless. I would still like to hang out here and learn what I can, though. Eventually I will either be able to get out of bed and have access to my other machine, or I will save up enough money to buy a better laptop.)