Thank you, and I'm glad that Temeraire's personality comes through. As for the rock, I don't draw nature often and have trouble with it too, so I just more or less followed the step by step advice from the chapter on mountains and rocks from Jack Hamm's book "Drawing Scenery: landscapes and seascapes", because I was too lazy to look at real rocks and then try and figure out how to make a drawing look like that. I'm thrilled to hear this tactic worked! (I kind of suck at drawing from nature in general, probably lack of practice, so I went the "drawing nature for dummies" route rather than the "proper" way of observing things...*G*)