Corrected version of reply I deleted - way too many typos Thanks Carolly. It is funny how you don't realize things you should know when you start working on something like this. Much of what has been pointed out to me as being in error with this picture is stuff that I should have been aware of, have been aware of in past pictures and done much better on, but completely forgot about in the course of this one evolving. It is from all the wonderful feedback here I have learned something very very illuminating about myself and about how I create my art work. There are certain pitfalls I tend to fall into when I am creating a work based centering on the fact that I ofen fail to have a clear vision or notion of what it is I am attempting to do at the onset. Most of my works start out rather crudely as one idea and in the course of things end up as something else completely. Not a bad thing, except that when I try to hold on to elements in the first that nolonger have a place in the latter. In this instance, the woman's pose began as a way to feature the new V2 character I was working on. Even her original outfit was completely different. The starting intent was to say, hey what do you folks think of this gal. From that point on, it seems, I lost all conscious thought of how she fit into the scene once the more creative aspects of my subconscious took over and I began adding items to turn the scene into a work of Art. Looking back on some of my past works this is not the only time I have done this, and has almost always resulted in my getting similar comments about the main characters not seeming to fit in or interact well with the scene. I beleive Aprilysh nailed the root of the problem right on the head when she commented, "she could be standing in a shop window for all the difference it makes now" How true an observation as that is more or less How I started out to pose her. I have also realized something else - from a psychological standpoint - about my work. I am and have always been a loner and tend to shy and shun away from most every and all forms of social interactions (when I can). This is one of the reasons why you will never catch me in a chat room, or hanging out at a ballgame, or interacting with folks in a grand social standing. Even my posting of this thread to this forum is not my norm as it tends to takes away much of the anonymity I wish for myself. Nevertheless, no one is an Island and often social interactions are a must as in this instance where I seriously needed sage help and advise from my peers. But that psychological viewpoint I hold comes across in my pictures quite frequently. There is always an isolation and a certain aloft in my work that I was not fully aware of until now. That is because I (of my own choice perhaps) choose to see the world via the eyes of the accidental tourists. Freezing moments of interest in snapshot images in my head. This is clearly evident in this picture as well as the girl's pose could easily be her pausing a moment to let a wandering tourist who happened on her snap a picture of her with her dragons. An amaturish photographer at that (and I should know better as I have had some training in photography). A more skilled photographer would have tried to capture her "unaware" in her own environment and thereby perserve the moment as much as would a skilled artist on canvas or the computer screen. So yes, all the comments here have helped greatly. I am still churning them over in my head and I am certain I will gleen even great insights as well. I will also turned to the various sources listed here as reference materials and gleen what I can from them as well. Lastly, what I find most astonding is just how dense and one track the human mind can be no matter how hard one may try to train oneself to the contary. Why, of all people, given my professional background, does it surprise me to discover - click as the light bulb comes on - that an artist work can be just as revealing about the underlying inner self as can speach patterns, style of handwriting, syntaxs, etc. Duh! The eyes are indeed the windows to the soul, but somethings we forget that they can look out as well as within. Cheers, Rob