bwtr- thanks for all your efforts!

I have found out how to create additional brushes for NPR effects by stealing them from some of my other paint-filter programs and loading them into the Carrara NPR brush trays as JPG files.

You still have to spend a lot of time playing around with them to get some good effects- when I do I SAVE these settings so that I can call them up again later. I give them EFX names so that I will know what to select when I want  a certain kind of look...