I dunno... it's one of those situations where I can actually see a little of both sides. I mean, only a fool would deny that there are a few cliques wandering around here -- a community this large would have to have at least four or five, right? =) A certain artist gets a following, he/she in turns starts to frequent the galleries of his/her admirers, and before long, you got yourself a clique. It's just sort of inevitable. The downside is that people in a clique tend to overlook the downside of each other's work, and as such get a little perturbed when someone like Boytronic (whose frustration has to be augmented by the fact that English is not his first language) who's pointing out a few things that some of us would prefer not to hear. Now, in the case of the image he linked us to -- yeah, he was a little harsh on the hair bit. It does look like there's been a tad too much conditioner at work here, but since it's hand-painted, I can't fault the artist for that. However, you have to grudgingly admit that, in some respects, she really is kinda bone ugly in the face. Not the artist's fault, I add with as much haste as this keyboard will allow, but let's allow a small crack of realism every now and then, okay? Sometimes these meshes aren't the most flattering, no matter how much virtual makeup we trowel on -- and this, sadly enough, IMVHO, is one of them. So let's not ride this guy too hard, okay? It's bad enough that he's trying to express something in a language not his own, but further to that, we should allow a cat to grin at a king. NOW, about all the DAMN ADS IN THE GALLERIES..... =)