On 21 Feb 2007 at 13:01, RFalken wrote, at least in part: > It's a lack of depth perception. I always used the hand over hand > system of brush lettering. In other words, resting my right hand on > my left or sometimes using a mahlstick to hold my hand off the > lettering surface. So when touching down a loaded brush against the > surface I could no longer tell how far away it was so the mistakes I > made were so frequent I couldn't work at commercial speed. With a pen > the hand is in touch with the surface so no problem. At least that's > how it worked with me. Thanks. Makes perfect sense now that you have told me. -- Roger Beamon Southern Arizona USA fptalk Mailing List //www.freelists.org/list/fptalk ========================================================= To Unsubscribe: Send email to fptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. The email that you then receive MUST be replied to per instructions to complete the process.