Try to get your hands on Painttool SAI. It's super simple and sooo nice. And let me know if you need any halp. :>

Learning to color digitally takes a while. I'd imagine being able to actually draw directly on the screen instead of the mouse/screen disconnect makes it DRASTICALLY easier though.

Oh hell yes, its like using a pencil on paper over trying to work off to the side.

I have a regular cheap tablet, but I never use it because I can't get decent lines to save my life. It isn't too bad for coloring though, except I'm terrible at color anything

dont look bad at all for a first timer

Welcome to the 21st century dude.

Digital colour really is a learning process.

Part of it is becoming comfortable with virtual brushes. There's a lot of trial and error before you find one that's 'comfortable' for you to do certain aspects of the art in.

Then its just figuring out the process that works best for you. My own process is convoluted and makes people cry, but it works for me (or worked.. I haven't done digital colour in so long I might have lost the process entirely now).

It is fun and practical though. Especially when it comes to infinite surface size, or things like perspective lines being able to be on an near infinite scale.

Plus: Undo button!

Hope to see more work from you in general though. Be it digital or realspace.

I think there is a bit of glammour that goes along with being able to do art on paper.. there are only a couple undo's to be had, and limited Cut and Paste and Copy to New options.. It just makes the work so much more organic.

I do appreciate the skill that goes along with drawing digitally, I've got a Wacom, but all I'm good for really, is Editing an existing picture.

*applauds*
Wooot!!!!
It's about time! :D

And another thing, a person also seems to develope a different style for digital vs real media. I know personally that my digital works look alot different style wise than my traditional works.

Heh... Every time I do color work I think it sucks balls. Just suck it up (the balls that is) and bang out some of your own stuff. :)

Get one of those bamboo pads and Download Gimp! Gimp's free and it's a great graphics art program!

I would think Pork Rinds would be.... Pork flavored...

Punts you into coils of razorwire at high speed!

Whyfor is you such a meanie...?

I don't see the obsession with jumping into full-on digital like it's some kind of religion. What happened to scanning inks and then coloring digitally. Ya gotta learn to walk before you run.

First you color digitally, then you branch out and do minor linework edits digitally. Use a tablet for general mousing around to get a feel for handling a "pen" whose output appears somewhere other than under your hand. You might even get to do major linework edits at the digital stage once you get used to it.

Then you try your hand at...whatsitsname...oh yeah, OpenCanvas and who knows...you might discover a hidden talent.

Then again, I've been using a tablet as a primary pointing device since Windows 3.1 was still viable, and I still prefer to draw my pics on paper and (usually) ink them there before scanning and coloring. Then again maybe it's that I wasn't all that hot with markers and now don't have enough free time for the many "do-overs" I'd inevitably need due to traditional-color disasters (and by that I don't mean markers spewing all over a masterpiece like that badge at AC many moons ago :D ).