Well, the irony is that I will spend hours brooding over a graphic and it still comes out looking like amateur time anyway. Time spent can't compensate for a lack of talent. I don't read fiction for the same reason your friend doesn't listen to the radio....because the nature of the brain is to unconsciously plagarize when it finds something it likes. But I can't do that with the graphics. I'm not doing nudes or portraits so my ability to copy has been greatly limited in the Poser world, and yet I lack the ability to do something really original. There you go. I'm a Marketplace addict because of a lack of talent. Not art. But Elvis on velvet. Sigh.