Somebody surely has a weird idea of "failure". Why would any artist want to churn out rendering after rendering of the latest character wearing the latest products just to be a walking marketing weasel? An artist wants to have a stable of models in her folders so that whatever the concept, she can pull out something to help realize it... and it just might be something different from project to project. If I had a contract for a cartoonish project I'd want the kidstuff; if I had a contract for a pin-up, I'd see what I had in the way of sex-goddesses; if it was a narrator, a newscaster, a village wisewoman, I'd see what I had that could be tweaked to fill the role. Same for the male models. Sometimes we need a fantasy bodybuilder and sometimes a gentleman. If a model still proves useful a year later, THEN I'd consider it successful... not whether anybody else used it. This brings back strong memories of junior high where all the 12-year-olds had to wear the same clothes and listen to the same music to be "in". Do any of you need to use the same character as everybody else to be popular? Carolly