Not so much flattery as honest appreciation. Let's face it, drawing, art in-general is tough. That's why the world isn't teeming with Wyeths or Munchs or Eschers or... Well, you get the idea. All of your works show a high level of pen-skill and always entertain my eyes with texture, shade, and life.

If you find the time, yes, I'd love to use an icon of your creation. I'm kinda busy lately-- work and personal stuff -- so I haven't done a lot of drawing. I'm trying to learn Blender (a free 3D app for unix/linux) so that I can create 3D models and pose them in 3D environments by the whims of my imagination and sense of composition. Maybe by the summer I'll have a nice 3D picture of the heroine from my Russian Alternate History novel-attempt. She's going to have a distinctive face (kinda rat-nosed, but not comical-- a challenge to draw 'just right') and she'll have some great environments to be set into (like steam-tunnels and crowded markets.) I'm getting ahead of myself though. I still have to learn how to make a cube in Blender, let alone a 3D figure with textured skin, eyes, clothes, etc... Lots to learn.