I'm very new to Illustrator and have been finding it extremely daunting, especially the pen tool which I simply could not comprehend. But I found this tutorial reading through the thread tonight, and after 10 minutes the pen tool suddenly seems like the easiest thing in the world. Thanks a million Pat, I don't know what I would have done without you! http://www.patrickcummings.net/tutorials/ After about an hour, still far from perfect but it's about 10000% better than where I was yesterday.