What I am attempting to do is to put a small indentation (an oval) in the side of the object. This indentation is not very deep and does not go through the entire object. I don't really know why, but I thought that I'd be able to move the drawing plane to a specific surface and then draw additional vertex points/poly lines directly on the surface of the object. That is apparently NOT the case. I can add vertex points only along an edge.>>>>>>> You could have just linked a few vertices, and then drew your points on and then link all vertices into the center of the shape and then pulled that vertice in. Understand? If you don't how litst's face tutorial the section that discusses the make of the eye socket is a good example. Brian