First Attempt at Illustrator CS4

I kind of see how Illustrator works now. But I still need to figure out how to control the strokes better...Sometimes it just smooths way too much. And when I erase certain parts of a line, it some how erases more than I want or it automatically makes my line thinner. But here's the colored version of Colonello, which after all other Acrobalenos, I will put it into my Tsuna background picture. it'll be a big project because just outlining and coloring took pretty much all day today. I need to do this more often to get efficient at it.