Wow im soo flatered no one has ever asked me what i use
Anyway it really depends on what you want to draw, i use MS Paint, Paint Shop Pro 7, Animation Shop 3, and Photo Shop 5 LE.
Really if you want to just draw Graal things use Paint it gives you alot of basic useful tools that will really help, for coloring and special effects and various other cool looking stuff use PSP 7 or PhotoShop.
Paint Shop Pro 7 comes with Animation shop.
Its really up to what you want to do, orginaly i drew my sig on paper then outlined it on PSP7 then gave it effects in PhotoShop because it got dull being just Black and White.
And WC nice animation but whats RM2K?