OpenCanvas - why are you such a howling bitch?

I finally bought OpenCanvas. Thanks to a sale I made of that silly Spider-Man picture. Someone wanted it as a poster and they've taken it to be vectorised and paid for that, which I think is so awfully sweet of them.

Only now I *have* OpenCanvas, I miss the previous versions and I'm having an AWFUL time getting it to behave. The pencil tool is not reactive to my wacom at ALL.

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Is it just me or does this kougra look like it's taking a crap? That is the *exact* pose my cats pull when they're about to let one drop. Seriously, Neopets. If you're drawing a feline sitting down, you *need* to put that unholy arch in their back. I KNOW it looks weird and I sit there sometimes and wonder what it must be like to have a back curved so weirdly (like I can talk, us humans with our wibbly-wobbly upright thing going on), but the fact of the matter is that when a cat is sitting upright, their back has a very close angle to it. If you do it as a straight line on an angle like that, it looks like the kitty is POOTING.

Guh! I swear to God, I'm in such a weird mood today. :T