Give Xara Extreme a try.. http://www.xaraxtreme.org/

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 13:37 -0600, kclug-request@kclug.org wrote:

It's interesting that "artist" was mentioned. I have resorted to using wine for art programs on linux. One of those programs which i have come to love because of the freedom (not free, but free to draw/paint) is ArtRage. Wonderfull program, a free version and the pay version is only 20.00.

That brings me to my next question, outside of gimp, are there other "artistic" programs for linux that compares to the quality of art programs on windows?