$700? Pffft, that's like $3 to rich people.
I don't know what your getting at, I was just pointing out the price is kinda steep, it's not something you'd buy just to mess around in for 10 mins, besides if all he wants to do is draw he doesn't really even need it, he can use a
free vector art program there are several available. Speaking of free vector graphics programs I just stumbled onto a flash based vector editor called
RAVEN it lets you export to .png which is what blockland uses or you can keep it in a vector format (.svg) if you want to edit it later. They also have an image editing program sort of like photoshop that's pretty cool.