Digital Drawing, Parrot Practice

Searching for a Simple Shape for a Parrot

I've been practicing almost every day and still enjoying myself. 

Simple cartoon style

I'm still learning how to use Clip Studio paint, so I'm keeping my drawing very simple.  I tried to learn a function that lets me edit the lines on the vector layer  Supposedly I can select an area and pinch the lines into whatever shape I'd like.  I couldn't figure that out, but I was able to select a portion of the drawing and change the lines color and style. 

 I wish there was a way to watch the tutorials within the program, but it just brings me to another page so I have to keep switching between pages.  I could watch on my phone but then it's too small to see.  Maybe I should watch the tutorials on my Quest; then they'd be huge, and I'd just have to lift the headset to look at the drawing program, lol.  I'm sure I'll figure it out...I just wish I had a better memory.

My First (VERY Short) Comic Strip

 So this is Day3 of learning digital art on Clip Studio Paint.  

I'm still having a blast. 

First Life with Smokey Comic strip

I learned how to do speech and thought balloons; yay!

I also learned how to put backgrounds on text (the white surrounding the word "crunch") and although it took forever, I learned how to change the text into a raster layer so I could select it with the lasso tool and rotate it .  Happy days, lol.

I just hope I can retain the info.  I'm learning so much, and if I can even retain one thing out of every 3 things I learn, I'll be happy, lol.  

Smokey HAS actually chewed my books before, and she does know how to say "No" and responds to my questions, so this is semi realistic, although to be honest I just added the book because her wing/arms looked weird without holding something.

I had a bit of a hard time with the book but I sketched everything out before doing the line drawing (the black lines).  My hands are still shaky but I discovered the STABILIZATION tool, which really, really helps.

It takes me way longer than I'd like to do these little drawings.  I watch real artists on YouTube and am blown away by how fast they can draw.  It's amazing...like watching magic.  I'm sure I'll get faster with practice, and that I'll get better with practice.