Lovely! Just lovely! :)

Aww, many thankies. -hugs- ^.^

Diffrent in a good way. Never seen such a species combination before, great stuff!

Eee! Many thankies. ^_^

fantastic linework! if i were you i would skip photoshop and go for the tablet, the gimp performs like a champ with an intuos

-blushie- Squee! Thankies! ^_^
An intuos? -jots it down-
Yes i've strongly considered getting just a tablet many times, but sadly all over the bugzilla and gug forums it seems full tablet support (pressure sensitivity, absolute mode, etc... ) for the win32 version's still broken and slow due to the buggy gtk+ win32, so i'm reluctant to buy one in case it doesn't work. ^^;

me i use the latest tiny intuos made by wacom. its the most accurate tablet ive ever owned and well worth every penny. it works out of the box with gimp, no set up nessisary. Ive tried large and small tablets and belive it or not the smaller ones work better than the bigger ones. you just have to make larger motions with the larger tablet, its not really any more accurate so just go small and you will be more than satisfied. Most of the problems the gimp has with tablets are with non waccom intuos tablets made by other manufacturers, in a pinch you could even get the cheaper waccom the graphire, but if it were me i would save my pennies for an intuos.
Heres where i got mine
https://www.digitalgraphicsresources.com/

eep... very expensive, and i haven't even doubled the price (everything costs twice in nz) to match nz currency... -faints- X3
A big thankyou very much for your kind help and advice, will definetely look into an intuos one when i somehow save up enough. -glomps- ^_^

you could always check Ebay or settle for a cheaper tablet made by Genius or one of the others, ive had one, its ok. its not intuos but it does the job