What is a good light weight sketching/drawing application for Windows 8 TABLETS!

Unfortunately for me, I got a Windows 8 tablet. I will get a much more powerful one later when my drawing skills actually NEED it. But as I am learning, and will (maybe) be going to a art school for Game Design soon, I need to start practicing. Even if what I do now sucks the big one, because practice means learning, and learning means experience.

I had deleted my status about this because I think this deserved an off-topic post so I can get about more detail then I could in a status update.

What do I want in this program?

1. Well this is a tablet, so everything is touchscreen, so it needs that support, and easy to use because I'm learning how to draw, not learning how to use a complicated program.

2. It should be light-weight, so this automatically excludes; GIMP, Photoshop, and stuff like this.

Any suggestions?

I'm installing SketchBook Express at the moment about to test it out.

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By "windows 8 tablet" do you mean Surface? If so, is it Pro? You can install anything on there that can go on a Windows 8 desktop, as long as space allows. I've got Paint.net on mine, but GIMP would probably be better, and Photoshop would definitely be better. I believe there is a Photoshop version for iPad, so there may be a lightweight one for Windows tablets as well.

This is what I'm using a less powerful one then this. (Dual-core)

http://www.dell.com/us/p/dell-venue-8-pro/pd

And I can install anything I want on here, but the harddrive is sooo small. I only have a 23 gig hard drive (11 gigs after windows 8 install)

EDIT:

Also I've noticed I'm going to need a better drawing stylus, the one I have no blows, stupid flimsy big rubber tips.

Well, I think Paint.net is pretty lightweight, and I would expect GIMP to require much less room than Photoshop. I'd go for GIMP out of those two.

Paint tool sai is pretty light to port in a system and work wells ;3!

It would be best if the tablet supported pressure sensitivity for the stylus, but it doesn't seem like it after looking over the specs. Photoshop is currently $9.99/mo but that does add up even if it is much cheaper than the old $2000 per edition, so I would suggest GIMP or Paint.net. You may want to look into Paintshop Pro as well, though I haven't heard many people refer to it in a long time.

There is this drawing program named Krita Gemini made specifically for tablets.

PaintTool SAI or its free counterpart FireAlpaca.

Mischief is good too.

If the specs of the tablet is good, then Clip Studio Paint.

Mmm tried SketchBook express but it doesn't seem like I can actually save my work beyond just using the program for that.

Paint.Net is almost too heavy on its processor.