im sorry i can't answer many of these questions as its hard without being right beside you
(@csshop just make the lines manually around your render, i believe there is a jsp tut for that)
Im glad that many found this helpful
but please,
DO NOT, depend on pen tooling in making sigs
pen tooling is merely a nice effect and should be used subtly
it is being misused and "whored" lately which is ruining the effect all together
DO NOT USE IT MEANINGLESSLY (think thats a word

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thanks, NG