Thanks RorrKonn, I am confident that I'll get the hang of all this, I'm just the kind of person who checks out all the details before making a buying decision. Sometimes that's a good thing, other times I suppose it's not so necessary.

Thanks for the links, I actually did watch a tutorial on MS5 last night on YouTube. It's the webinar series they have posted there. They started with a character of a girl that they had already made earlier, so this particular vid didn't show them drawing the character, only how to ink and color it. That's as far as I watched, there are more parts to the series I think. I'm going to have to look for a tutorial or two that shows someone actually using MS5 to draw a character from scratch. What I'd like to find is one that starts with a blank page, they draw a character, ink it, color it, then draw the backgrounds and size and insert both into a three or four panel cartoon strip. I think if I can find a tut like that it would really go a long way in showing me the extremes of this app.

I think at first I'd be more interested in learning how to use the tool set that will assist me with drawing something more quickly, then I can at least get a jump on things, and if I'm short on time I'll know how to churn out something quicker than just drawing everything freehand.

I am a musician, so at some point I may even want to try animating some cartoons. I can easily record music, sound fx, and voice overs for animations. So I may end up getting Anime Studio as well. The Debut version is not very expensive.