Cyn - BAH! This coming from miss "Shake Shake Shake - They appear to be doing some strange mating ritual!" HA! I scoff at your allusion ... ha I say!! Was that indignent enough? Did you see my nostrils flair? huh? Didja? Misha - I think, like everything else in art, do what -you- think looks best and to heck with what others think. I know some people use a softer pencil like a 3B or softer while others like to use a harder pencil (3H or harder). They say that it doesn't write as much as indent and looks almost like embossing. shrug again If you like the way you are doing it, then do it that way. How and where you sign your art is as much a part of the presentation as the cropping and framing that you do. Just don't do any mating in a public place, can get you in trouble. Bahahaha :) -=>Donald