I think you do pretty good with the tools you have. Drawing with a mouse is pretty hard, but I can't even imagine trying to draw even basic shapes with one of those touchpads.

I like the highlight you made in the hair. The rest of the drawing could benefit a bit from highlights and shadows. Of course, it only works as long as one keeps the direction of the light source in mind.

I personally prefer your traditional art, because you have more control over how it looks. The lines look more natural and the colors more pleasing. Colored pencils almost always look good to me. Improving on digital art generally means trying to make it look more traditional. So what is it about traditional art that is lacking in digital art? I guess the most obvious would be the colors used. With traditional, the colors are closer to real life. With digital, people tend to use the default most saturated colors available. I think the saturation should be toned down a bit on most digital art, except perhaps for small features, like things that are very brightly colored in real life. Backgrounds especially should not be more intensely saturated and noticeable than the main subject of a picture. Here is a color tutorial I stumbled across.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/6437675/

Some of the advice there seems to be almost universally good, while some is more of a preference type thing. There will always be individual exceptions to all the rules though, because different artists are always trying to do different things.

Another thing the makes digital look too digital sometimes is that it is too perfect. The colors are exactly the same within their areas. The lines often look blocky and without life. If you look at the lines in a traditional drawing, they vary in width and darkness, depending on the pressure the artist applied to the pencil. The lines are never in perfect sharp focus. The natural slight blur of real lines can be simulated simply by blurring digital lines a little. Unfortunately, it makes filling areas with color a bit harder. Sometimes a slight blur after the coloring can work though. The further something is away in the background, the more blurred it can be. This blurring thing doesn't always work well though, some art just doesn't benefit from it.

One other thing is texture. Pencil art has wonderful texture. You can see the direction of the pencil strokes, and many times, it can make art look really good. I love how colors can be gradually blended with pencil, and there is almost infinite control. Digital usually lacks any texture at all. Sometimes adding noise to the image in certain areas can help, but one doesn't usually want to do that to an entire image. Clothing is probably the best place for this. Select an area, like a character's pants, and just add the noise, or texture to that. Then go for the shirt, and change the intensity of the noise or texture a little. You wouldn't want to do that with things that are supposed to look smooth, like eyeballs or the sky.

The very best thing of all is to test everything that your paint program offers, to see what it can do, and remember what works well for different things. The best to improved is to keep trying new things and to remember what works and what doesn't, for what you are trying to draw.

thanks for the input il work on all that still like doing gimp cuz it inlolves no sucky scanner though lol