Just another perspective on the whole render big/finish little thing. All the illustrations you see in everyday life, whether it be a magazine advert or poster, or comic book art, or whatever, are rarely worked on at the dimensions you see them in. Most of the time, they are created much larger, just so that, as Englishbob says, you can work i Photoshop or whatever in the postwork and get finer control over the brushwork, etc. You can then resize it down, knowing that your postwork isn't going to stand out. Whreas if you start with a smaller image and zoom in to work on it, you're always going to be looking at a pizelated image, which can be difficult to work out 'where' in the image you're working, or what needs to be done. jonthecelt