Ah, the frustration and foibles of web design.

I've spent the last four hours trying to teach myself how to draw tendrils and tentacles using the vector illustration program Inkscape. While I seem to have figured out how to programmatically describe the thickness and fill style of any particular tendril along a curve, my curves always seem to come out... chunky. Not quite tendril-like. I'm missing something, some particular skill that allows me to convince the bezier curves into a more curvy look and feel. It's really frustrating, because I have an idea for a design element for a website and my illustrative skills are so atrophied. I haven't had to use them professionally for over five years now and I have not been practicing as regularly as I should.

Bleah. So much to learn, so much to do. It's really frustrating.