I'm just not getting the kind of toon results I'm really looking for, so I've ordered a cheap Wacom and Manga Studio so I can, hopefully, paint in my own outlines and colors. So can I even call my work "Poser art" if the poser part is all covered up with my own paint layers?

I know realism is big with a lot of Poser fans, but, IMHO, that kind of results in every Poser render looking pretty much like every other one. I thumb through the gallery and keep thinking to myself "Yup, I've seen that one before." I really want to do something different. So does that mean I will be tarred and feathered and run of out town. I hope not. But I plan to start using a Poser render the way an artist uses an underpainting, and bury it under visible layers I paint on myself.

I tried drawing and painting with a mouse, but yikes! That just doesn't work. (Many, many years ago my daughter, a commercial artist, told me over and over "Dad, a mouse is not a drawing tool." I should have listened.)

So will this make me an outcast here? hehe.