Well, I am trying to improve my drawing by hand and I did not realize how much i used Xara for simple thing. I do not have some of the basic discipline that traditional cartoonist have. Example, just drawing a circle. I tried it and well I had to draw it in Xara, print it and then trace it to get it right. okay I did not do that, but my hand drawing of a circle or a straight line for that matter was not as straight as I thought it should be. Also something like drawing eyes. In Xara it is easy, draw on and copy,paste and flip. by hand one eye is huge, the other is tiny. my characters are kinda freaky. which would be great if that is what I wanted. So what is all this about? Nothing i guess, except new and budding cartoonist(this so includes me), please don't stop sketching by hand.

Matt