This program is not bad at all.  I could do things with it…

The color tools work so much more naturally for me then the ones in Painter.  Ironically, Painter bills itself as a tool that goes to great lengths to mimic the behavior of traditional artist’s tools…even down to mimicking a wide assortment of paper types.  But I’ve just never been able to get it to work.  This was my first effort at a color drawing in Sketchbook Pro and I’m very pleased with it.  The software never once fought me.  I can do some stuff with this…