Dave,
Thanks! My artwork always starts with a photo, so it's fleshed out on a PC rather than pencil and paper. Although I have a big graphics tablet that works well, I can't start from scratch with it because it would look warpy! So we're pretty much in the same boat. But nothing improves like practice, so keep going!

From what I've read on other forum sites, I can't post artwork etc without losing my rights to it there. (The people running whatever forum obtain rights to use the posts in whatever way they like.) I will look more at local posting here in the meantime. Regardless, you will get a much better idea anyway just by heading over to http://www.artmechanica.com and looking for Production Images. You might like the rod or the '57 Bel Air best, I suspect.

Keep doodling!