I appreciate it immensely. Thank you.

Very good! You got the smile.

thanks! this was a fun idea, duaneart. we should have more common sketching exercises at some point.

Yay! Great job. Duaneart, that sweetie, has now been bstranged!

Did you actually sketch this? Or is it some kind of technology hocus pocus?

for full disclosure, i did actually sketch this with a program called artrage, which is really awesome for tablet pcs. my whole life i wanted to be able to draw directly on the screen (my parents are engineers and we had computers through the 80s) and artrage mimics the tools like paint brushes and markers (this was using the marker tool). it also allows you to post reference images to work from. i like it a lot, but this picture does not exist anywhere besides my hard drive. hope that answers your question, lainey!

if you'd like to check out that product, you can find it here:
http://www.ambientdesign.com/

I like yours. It is more like a sketch. I drew mine with a mouse.

thanks, thesage! yours is totally different, and that's why i like it. i haven't ever gotten the hang of removing my hand from my pictures.