First......... I hope everyone enjoys thier new avatars !! 
Second ....To everyone who wrote back in thank you for your nice words !!! 
Third........I actually had a good time doing these.
You know no matter what your experince level is everyone can use graphic exercises!!!
I used 4 different art programs doing these avatars 1 3D program 2 standard art programs and 1 pattern making program.
The wide variety of styles really helps push creativity and design ideas to match a person's character,plus I visted everyone's home page looked at the skins thaey made,Screen shots and skins they like.This helped me in color choices design elements and some I had not been to before so I learned more about each person.
In short I learned more about everyone built on my skills as well and had a good time!!!
Now I have 2 WB's to finish Inception and Transcend but first I promised a good friend a cursor to go with Frontier WB so Back into my 3D prog. for a few days and look out for an electrified cursor!!!!!

Harley