Hey! SOOoooo... I've been wanting to get into digital art for a long time, and after an entire YEAR (more, really) of being almost totally locked up on art-block, I finally got around to upgrading this computer so it would work with the Wacom I've had sitting here for almost that entire year.
(Intuos Draw 6x8)
For some reason, it didn't wanna work with my old distro of Lunix and old windows compy is having HDD problems, so everything skips and stutters like crazy, so couldn't use it there either.
Gettting used to this new version and it's quirks and challenges, re-finding functions and such and getting more used to where everything is; more than a little annoying at times. Still worth it, because...


In short, I GOT A DRAWING TABLET!!1!eleven!!11111!


About as much as I've done with it is plug it in, open GIMP and then doodle on a blank page before closing it. That said, now I need to learn how to use it. All y'all artsy-folks out there, what's a long-time traditional-media artist need to know about shifting from pens and paper to drawing digitally?

Tips?
Tricks?
Hints?
Keys?
Important info?

Hit me with everything you got for a new-to-digital artist.