Yep that's how I went. If you check my first pixel sigs, they had just about no detail or shading. Everyone laughed at me then :lol: the way you shaded your rune then... it was evil :P as for drawing people... try looking at yourself, look at the shapes you make, and try to imitate them, with bigger muscles ^^ then over that draw some armour, after wards erasing the body lines. for weapons... just draw em o.o items and monsters, get a screenshot of them in the pose you want and try to imitate...