I painted with a mouse for many years until just last year when I purchased a Wacom One. Wow, what a huge difference and I could tell as soon as I started using it. Thanks for this.
As someone who is struggling to paint after I've laid out my sketches, watching the mouse timelapse was actually super insightful as to how the process actually works
i challenge you to draw the sketch, then start with the details, or the last step you do in your drawing process. basically, draw backwards but you can use the sketch. amazing video btw!
the way he said 'thank you guys for putting me through all that pain' so CASUALLY! I find this video VERY useful, as I'm a HUGE fan of art in general and would like to move onto digital art. Thank you Sam! :DDD
The secret to painting with a mouse is; using correction. I always use correction in my paintings and it works pretty well so there are some apps with correction. I use Medibang and i really recommend it if you're gonna paint wiith a mouse.
Lol, i used to be a mouse user for digital art, tbh im a mouse user, touchpad user, and stylus user. (like the pen, and i use it on a touchscreen device.) I can relate to some of the pains using a mouse, but i still managed to draw with a mouse pretty decent
I haven't drawn, i usually paint over pics, it doesn't always work, but I have done some ok works, or so i think. Still life and landscapes you can manage but portraits are really hard.
Would be cool to see a video where you go into detail about picking colours when it comes to skin tones. I always struggle with finding life-like colours for the highlights and shadowed areas!
Drawing with you're mouse is incredibly hard and is only made for the fire forged badasses who are not only experts at art but... you can learn it and it can be better if you cant afford a stylus or a tablet.
hahaha 🤣 we do that all the time in 1998 I’m 42 years old and started with photoshop at age 18 but mostly we draw using just ms paint :) I went back to traditional painting it is more fun
The only difference is you can't use pressure opacity or pressure weighted line brush and mouse covers more space so you gotta use blending brushes and changing brush thickness then sharpening edges for line weights
Hey ! Thank you so much for this video ! That was so funny !😆 I’m very happy you did the challenge I proposed ! Another one maybe ? Can you draw with your left hand ? So difficult ! 😂 Good Luck !
This is actually really helpful. Watching the steps you go through while "clunky" it's a good way to show what motions and strokes are really important. When painting in a way that is really comfortable, everyone indulges themselves a bit. This is almost pure utilitarian and it helps shine a light on where our focus should be. Like what's important to learn
What you can try is to start with Color blobs rather than outlines. It is much easier to trace a shape with your mouse rather than creating it for most people. And so by starting with a huge blob of base color like in some traditional painting styles you have a lot more control over your form, you can imagine the mouse as pushing the form out from the inside without going straight to the hardest possible task, drawing outlines with nothing behind it. This may or may not limit your art style a bit but it's much much easier. If you need outlines after you are mostly done with refining the shapes you can always go in with a smoothing tool and draw on top.
Hey Sam, you probably would have had an easier time with the lasso tool if you used the magnetic lasso tool option. Great video, thoroughly enjoyed watching you suffer😉
This was me when I first started doing digital art with my finger. I'm faster now but I just sketch traditionally then paint digitally. Saves me tons of time
“Trust the process”: I love these challenges (mouse only, left handed etc) because they show what the process alone can get us, without the incredible skills you have. I mean, it doesn't take away your experience, but you are so fluent and fast with a stylus than the theory and the practice are melted. These challenges help a little bit to separate them and point to what to work. Now, i'll get my stylus, and work my process, my dexterity and my eye. And get an abomination, as usual. :)
I just found you through your Huion Kamvas review (bc I'm thinking of getting it as a gift for my sister). I'm not an artist by any means, but I love your channel! You're so entertaining to watch lol, keep up the good work, your art looks amazing!!
I personally make a clean draft line art on paper then I refine it with a mouse by using krita's pen tool which makes strokes, stabilizer and a weighted brush and other vector layer tools and using other hacks for kine weights and blending weights
I am the one who commented about this challege but this really proves and inspire me to stop making excuses to not do digital more often because i dont have drawing tablet but after this its all a about passion and talent
Challenge ideas: 1. sing the ABC’s the entire time you’re drawing. 2. try a new/different program using only the default brushes 3. Draw a portrait with complex lighting and without references 4. Draw something based on a song/song lyrics 5. Draw your mom as a live model 6. Draw something you’ve never drawn before 7. redraw a piece of classical art in your style digitally
The fact that this is still a lot better than mine is with a wacom/apple pencil goes to show just how much a solid knowledge of anatomy, light and colour etc helps when making art. Time to bust out some biology textbooks.
Aaaaaaaa this is fantastic, I started my digital art journey with a mouse when I was about 13! I was horrendous 🤣 almost 4 years later with my tablet I finally feel like I’m getting somewhere tho
I have been painting with a mouse for a while now. I’m taking a intro to digital art class and I can say it’s hard but easier once you get used to it I don’t have enough money to buy a tablet
I don't understand how every challenge is so easy for you! The amount of detail you made with the mouse in such a short time is not close to what I do one hour in😏
as someone that used to draw with finger - my pfp is drawn by myself and only fingers on small smartphone- and now came to draw with mouse i can say i can take over the world as a young artist. and also who always comments 3 years later
I paint with a mouse sometimes. I have to zoom in and go really slowly to get any precision. And I sketch traditionally and then color it in Photoshop.
I do it all the time. I can't afford even a cheap tablet right now . I've just started in digital a couple months ago. It takes me days but it's fun ! I like line drawing a whole lot better than painting.
watching this amazing artist struggle with a mouse makes me feel like I have potential. I have been drawing with a mouse for 1.5 years and I have significantly improved. All it takes is some practice. Also I find that using a trackpad can be more intuitive. It has been a terrifyingly steep learning curve seeing as I was also trying to learn photoshop at the same time. Now I am considering getting a pen tablet for pen pressure also it will relive some stress. Lol, people talk about there being a learning curve to tablets without screens, but I'm already good with a mouse so it can't be that much harder right???
to be fair, if i spent years drawing on a mouse i could probably sketch the same as the latter in 30. for example, i can find the perfect mouse (not needed), perfect sensitivity, and just practice and eventually, WITH PRACTICE, you can have the same control as a pen. the fact that you were able to even sketch something that well without ever really using a mouse to draw is literally proof of that. if your mouse sens was more for drawing as apposed to gaming or just casual use, you would most definitely be able to execute the same sketch.
So funny that this is a challenge. I had to do all computer art like this from 1995 up until 3 years ago. You definitely need to do different techniques with a mouse and you do not get pressure sensitivity. I would not tell someone they can't use a mouse to learn. It is hard, but it gets you better at digital art so when you do get a the ability to afford tablet of some sort you will have the foundation to work from. Also, he stopped using the mouse while the painting was unfinished. If he knew what he was doing with a mouse and he had finished it, the picture may not have been the same but it would have been better. Please do not give up on making digital art if all you have is a mouse. That is extreemly limiting.
As a youtube animator that draws with a mouse (because I'm poor lmao) I relate SO much...You don't know how much I hate it omg- It's *definitely* not a good option to draw like that, since it won't let your hand move freely and it can even change the way your artstyle looks (most times in a bad way) so yeah... I don't recommend it either 🗿
Well, that's still better than anything I can do with a pen and tablet. XD I think if you are painting/drawing with a mouse, you have to make use of other tools within Photoshop. Something like paths: creating paths with the Pen tool > right-click > stroke path. It can simulate pressure to some extent (admittedly not as good as a stroke done with a pen & tablet). Paths can also be used to make selections -- lassoing with a mouse is just too much of a pain. The disadvantage of this is that the result looks too "artificial" but other tools can be used to simulate "imperfections" to make the piece more painterly. Also, it's a way different workflow that will take time getting used to.
I painted for years with mouse in Photoshop, doing it for fun admittedly, and with more "pudgy" look (part of that was also the fact that I was not shading with color or blended layers but with burn/dodge - yea I was that guy) so my art literally leveled up in front of my eyes after watching a few tutorials on digital painting regarding color, temperature, and shapes within shapes; and switching to a pen tablet Tbh I am not sure what helped more, maybe I should draw and paint with mouse again just to see. What I can definitively is, you just dont get the brushstroke tricks, so some things like hair, clothing, or anything that you imagine in your workflow would consist of overlaying brush strokes to create texture and triangles essentially, well you cant really do that with a mouse. Drawing isnt as bad with mouse and you can do comparatively competent line art with it. (trick is to zoom in more than if you are drawing with a pen so as to be able to make more elbow gestures with your mouse)
When I was a kid I used to draw with old school mouse. Actually I traced the image from magazines to overhead projector film. Then placed the film against 14"...might had been 12" CRT monitor. And then traced the image with mouse to painting app. (Those days mouse were the ones that had ball inside. Oh **** that frustration when there was dirt on those rolls). Oh and screen resolution was amazing 320x200 and colors 256 at once. ;-)
Really goes to show that you don't need fancy and expensive tools to do what you love. It was a little painful even to watch you do it, but the result looks GREAT regardless :)
I think people like to see these challenges because you actually give it an honest effort great video 🙌🙌 I didn't see him mentioned in the comments but I would recommend looking up the artist Craig Mullins! He was one the first digital painters I remember and he started with a mouse. Dunno if he switched to a stylus but he has some incredible early environments that are mind blowing especially considering the hardware and software of the time haha
ive been learning to draw digitally first time and ONLY HAVE a mouse..ugh.....painful. Yet when I get better equipment will be so much better. I already can sketch, draw, paint, but w mouse...wow. you did great first time trying w a mouse.
We were all that and a can of paint back in the 90’s when Microsoft Paint was introduced. At work, fascinated and drawing Marvel and Disney characters with the mouse.😅 I wish I could have transferred them all. I was most proud of Smurfette and Pumba😂 but I still have my Spidy on floppy disk. Ahhh, the good ole days!
That's how I started as well, doing pixel art on MS Paint ages ago. It wasn't too difficult to translate to digital painting on Photoshop, although still it's harder to get the correct lines than on pen and paper.
If you can't afford a huge display tablet, just start with the xp pen 4x3 drawing tablet. Its 25 bucks and seriously got me through the beginning stages of digital art.
When I saw the mouse painting I thought, “Hey that’s pretty good!” Then I saw the stylus version… 😂
Lol
Show us your traditional art skills in the next video sam🤘🤘🇵🇭
I don't have paint 🤣
@@samdoesarts buy some!
agreed. get a cheap set of paints :D
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Drawing/painting with a mouse:
- Control + Z all the time
- Say bye bye to your wrist
- Everything is wonky
- p A i N
yes 😂😭😢
How I feel
As an actual mouse artist, can confirm 😭😭
*cry like mouse artist*
very sad 🥲
Next challenge: *draw with your eyes closed*
but why
@@samdoesarts are you asking why the challenge Or why this comment has so many likes :) ?
@@samdoesarts The question actually is- *but why not?*
@@gourdman8140 HAHAHAHAA
Oooh try a blind contour drawing, it’s actually a thing and is so much fun!
Next Challenge: take a look at the reference at first then paint a full picture in one shot without looking at the reference photo
this'd be amazing! might show why you should look at reference instead of just using a mental snapshot
Sam: **uses a mouse**
His glove: I will never leave..
i didnt notice that and had to rewind xDD
I painted with a mouse for many years until just last year when I purchased a Wacom One. Wow, what a huge difference and I could tell as soon as I started using it. Thanks for this.
As someone who is struggling to paint after I've laid out my sketches, watching the mouse timelapse was actually super insightful as to how the process actually works
Next Challenge: start paint without Sketch Guide lines
That's kinda easy but it would be fun to watch
easy
Kinda easy i do it often to erase my artblock
Chinese digital artists do that... That too on one layer
@@AM-jx3zf I do the same but I am an asian(Indian)
i challenge you to draw the sketch, then start with the details, or the last step you do in your drawing process. basically, draw backwards but you can use the sketch. amazing video btw!
Next challenge: draw with all layers inverted, and see what happens in the end
Yeee please!
Inverted? What do you mean by intverted
@@70water77 i think the colors are inverted
@@gothworm daria no mesmo que inverter as cores de um desenho no final, não faz sentido
The fact that his mouse drawing is our standard
the way he said 'thank you guys for putting me through all that pain' so CASUALLY! I find this video VERY useful, as I'm a HUGE fan of art in general and would like to move onto digital art. Thank you Sam! :DDD
Short Answer:
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Yes - but how much do you value your wrist 😭
this is true
Second reply lol
Carpal tunnel
@@samdoesarts true story i was sam’s wrist 😭
he deserves a medal for this
The secret to painting with a mouse is; using correction. I always use correction in my paintings and it works pretty well so there are some apps with correction. I use Medibang and i really recommend it if you're gonna paint wiith a mouse.
Ah yes another therapeutic art content 🤣
_-mouse user here_ 🤚🏼
Lol, i used to be a mouse user for digital art, tbh im a mouse user, touchpad user, and stylus user. (like the pen, and i use it on a touchscreen device.) I can relate to some of the pains using a mouse, but i still managed to draw with a mouse pretty decent
I haven't drawn, i usually paint over pics, it doesn't always work, but I have done some ok works, or so i think. Still life and landscapes you can manage but portraits are really hard.
Would be cool to see a video where you go into detail about picking colours when it comes to skin tones. I always struggle with finding life-like colours for the highlights and shadowed areas!
I think that's the great about highlights and shadows, you can choose nearly every color for it.
We wanna see your traditional art sam ❤🙏
Drawing with you're mouse is incredibly hard and is only made for the
fire forged badasses who are not only experts at art but... you can learn it
and it can be better if you cant afford a stylus or a tablet.
I have a friend who can make immaculate digital paintings and illustrations with a mouse it's amazing.
her art is amazing and she's so underrated
I’m early! Bro, it looks great even tho you did it with a mouse. You’re an amazing artist, and you have inspired me to do realistic drawings again.
"you guys are sick" me:WhY ThaNkYou
hahaha 🤣
we do that all the time in 1998
I’m 42 years old and started with photoshop at age 18
but mostly we draw using just ms paint :)
I went back to traditional painting it is more fun
Perfect. Even though I don't understand English very well, I learn a lot from your videos. Thank you!
YES FOR ONCE I'M EARLY! I LOVE YOUR DRAWINGS AND VIDEOS!
THANK YOU
your such a talented artist you deserve more recognition
The only difference is you can't use pressure opacity or pressure weighted line brush and mouse covers more space so you gotta use blending brushes and changing brush thickness then sharpening edges for line weights
Hey ! Thank you so much for this video ! That was so funny !😆 I’m very happy you did the challenge I proposed ! Another one maybe ? Can you draw with your left hand ? So difficult ! 😂 Good Luck !
This is actually really helpful. Watching the steps you go through while "clunky" it's a good way to show what motions and strokes are really important. When painting in a way that is really comfortable, everyone indulges themselves a bit. This is almost pure utilitarian and it helps shine a light on where our focus should be. Like what's important to learn
next: draw with a trackpad
Day 1: of asking sam to do an art piece blindfolded! Although it'll be extremely hard for you, it'll be so fun to watch. Pehehe.
I just subscribed to your channel and you uploaded a video at the same time lol. Your videos have been a big help in my art journey, tysm!
Thank you and I'm glad to hear that!!
I saw the mouse painting and im already like "thats so much better than any art that I do" then you whip out that stylus.. incredible skills!
The fact that some people used to/still paint with a mouse both amazes me and bothers me
What you can try is to start with Color blobs rather than outlines. It is much easier to trace a shape with your mouse rather than creating it for most people.
And so by starting with a huge blob of base color like in some traditional painting styles you have a lot more control over your form, you can imagine the mouse as pushing the form out from the inside without going straight to the hardest possible task, drawing outlines with nothing behind it.
This may or may not limit your art style a bit but it's much much easier.
If you need outlines after you are mostly done with refining the shapes you can always go in with a smoothing tool and draw on top.
Hey Sam, you probably would have had an easier time with the lasso tool if you used the magnetic lasso tool option. Great video, thoroughly enjoyed watching you suffer😉
challenge: try drawing on MS paint
This was me when I first started doing digital art with my finger. I'm faster now but I just sketch traditionally then paint digitally. Saves me tons of time
“Trust the process”: I love these challenges (mouse only, left handed etc) because they show what the process alone can get us, without the incredible skills you have. I mean, it doesn't take away your experience, but you are so fluent and fast with a stylus than the theory and the practice are melted. These challenges help a little bit to separate them and point to what to work.
Now, i'll get my stylus, and work my process, my dexterity and my eye. And get an abomination, as usual. :)
Next challenge: Draw with your left hand
OOF
@@samdoesarts draw with mouse on left hand
@@Prajwal____ Double Oof
@@samdoesarts draw with mouse on left hand with eyes closed
Usually you draw the lineart traditionally scan and use the bucket tool or painting. Increase the pressure sensitivity and make sure to use multiply
Sam-*sleeps*
Dreams about someone challenging DRAW WITH YOUR LEGS
Sam-ok😭😭
I just found you through your Huion Kamvas review (bc I'm thinking of getting it as a gift for my sister). I'm not an artist by any means, but I love your channel! You're so entertaining to watch lol, keep up the good work, your art looks amazing!!
Aww man, thank you so much for that, Sam. 😂 I'll be happy when my pictures look anything like your mouse picture. I love your content. You're a star!
I personally make a clean draft line art on paper then I refine it with a mouse by using krita's pen tool which makes strokes, stabilizer and a weighted brush and other vector layer tools and using other hacks for kine weights and blending weights
that music is so chill.
I am the one who commented about this challege but this really proves and inspire me to stop making excuses to not do digital more often because i dont have drawing tablet but after this its all a about passion and talent
Sam, you are an amazing artist. It doesn't matter what you use to draw, they always turned out awesome. You're such a great inspiration.
Challenge ideas:
1. sing the ABC’s the entire time you’re drawing.
2. try a new/different program using only the default brushes
3. Draw a portrait with complex lighting and without references
4. Draw something based on a song/song lyrics
5. Draw your mom as a live model
6. Draw something you’ve never drawn before
7. redraw a piece of classical art in your style digitally
These videos are so simple in the best possible way 👏
Both outcomes were amazing!
The fact that this is still a lot better than mine is with a wacom/apple pencil goes to show just how much a solid knowledge of anatomy, light and colour etc helps when making art. Time to bust out some biology textbooks.
I think the trick is having a steady hand, and some people don't have that ability when using a mouse for drawing on an art program.
Ahh I love it! You should also make a complete tourial on how you do skin and how you make the lighting and shadows so good.
This dude is sick
Aaaaaaaa this is fantastic, I started my digital art journey with a mouse when I was about 13! I was horrendous 🤣 almost 4 years later with my tablet I finally feel like I’m getting somewhere tho
YOU ARE SO TALENTED love your art!!!
I have been painting with a mouse for a while now. I’m taking a intro to digital art class and I can say it’s hard but easier once you get used to it
I don’t have enough money to buy a tablet
Yep! Definetly easier once you get used to it!
The only secret is training so you can get better lines using a mouse :D
I don't understand how every challenge is so easy for you! The amount of detail you made with the mouse in such a short time is not close to what I do one hour in😏
his voice deeper than my school knowledge
I love how he said it would look terrible but it looks better than every single drawing I've ever done.
as someone that used to draw with finger - my pfp is drawn by myself and only fingers on small smartphone-
and now came to draw with mouse i can say i can take over the world as a young artist.
and also who always comments 3 years later
I paint with a mouse sometimes. I have to zoom in and go really slowly to get any precision. And I sketch traditionally and then color it in Photoshop.
I do it all the time. I can't afford even a cheap tablet right now . I've just started in digital a couple months ago. It takes me days but it's fun ! I like line drawing a whole lot better than painting.
My favorite part is that he doesn't yell at the camera, instead he just be C H I L L I N`
watching this amazing artist struggle with a mouse makes me feel like I have potential. I have been drawing with a mouse for 1.5 years and I have significantly improved. All it takes is some practice. Also I find that using a trackpad can be more intuitive. It has been a terrifyingly steep learning curve seeing as I was also trying to learn photoshop at the same time. Now I am considering getting a pen tablet for pen pressure also it will relive some stress. Lol, people talk about there being a learning curve to tablets without screens, but I'm already good with a mouse so it can't be that much harder right???
to be fair, if i spent years drawing on a mouse i could probably sketch the same as the latter in 30. for example, i can find the perfect mouse (not needed), perfect sensitivity, and just practice and eventually, WITH PRACTICE, you can have the same control as a pen. the fact that you were able to even sketch something that well without ever really using a mouse to draw is literally proof of that. if your mouse sens was more for drawing as apposed to gaming or just casual use, you would most definitely be able to execute the same sketch.
And it still looks better than anything I could ever draw-
this video shows that the skill solves everything
Cool now draw with only keyboard cursor!! Great job, I always check out your art. It's awesome I hope someday I'll be this good
People that draws using mouse must be really good at control their hands
So funny that this is a challenge. I had to do all computer art like this from 1995 up until 3 years ago. You definitely need to do different techniques with a mouse and you do not get pressure sensitivity. I would not tell someone they can't use a mouse to learn. It is hard, but it gets you better at digital art so when you do get a the ability to afford tablet of some sort you will have the foundation to work from. Also, he stopped using the mouse while the painting was unfinished. If he knew what he was doing with a mouse and he had finished it, the picture may not have been the same but it would have been better. Please do not give up on making digital art if all you have is a mouse. That is extreemly limiting.
As a youtube animator that draws with a mouse (because I'm poor lmao) I relate SO much...You don't know how much I hate it omg-
It's *definitely* not a good option to draw like that, since it won't let your hand move freely and it can even change the way your artstyle looks (most times in a bad way) so yeah... I don't recommend it either 🗿
Well, that's still better than anything I can do with a pen and tablet. XD
I think if you are painting/drawing with a mouse, you have to make use of other tools within Photoshop. Something like paths: creating paths with the Pen tool > right-click > stroke path. It can simulate pressure to some extent (admittedly not as good as a stroke done with a pen & tablet). Paths can also be used to make selections -- lassoing with a mouse is just too much of a pain.
The disadvantage of this is that the result looks too "artificial" but other tools can be used to simulate "imperfections" to make the piece more painterly. Also, it's a way different workflow that will take time getting used to.
I've been painting with a mouse my whole life yet yours is still way better.
Hahaha I made a realism painting with a mouse did take 3 days XD and lots of anger 😂
Maybe do a video talking about your art journey or about your progress and stuff, love your videos tho :P
I painted for years with mouse in Photoshop, doing it for fun admittedly, and with more "pudgy" look (part of that was also the fact that I was not shading with color or blended layers but with burn/dodge - yea I was that guy) so my art literally leveled up in front of my eyes after watching a few tutorials on digital painting regarding color, temperature, and shapes within shapes; and switching to a pen tablet
Tbh I am not sure what helped more, maybe I should draw and paint with mouse again just to see. What I can definitively is, you just dont get the brushstroke tricks, so some things like hair, clothing, or anything that you imagine in your workflow would consist of overlaying brush strokes to create texture and triangles essentially, well you cant really do that with a mouse.
Drawing isnt as bad with mouse and you can do comparatively competent line art with it. (trick is to zoom in more than if you are drawing with a pen so as to be able to make more elbow gestures with your mouse)
Oh my! You have the patience of Job.
The sketch reminds me of what people see when YOUR DOING THE SKETCH.
Can you please guide about how to paint skin normally ? Because I really like your way of painting 😍
Its honestly not as bad as I expected because drawing with a mouse is a lot more difficult than it seems
IM IN LOVEEEEE WITH YOUR ART💜💜💜
When I was a kid I used to draw with old school mouse. Actually I traced the image from magazines to overhead projector film. Then placed the film against 14"...might had been 12" CRT monitor. And then traced the image with mouse to painting app. (Those days mouse were the ones that had ball inside. Oh **** that frustration when there was dirt on those rolls). Oh and screen resolution was amazing 320x200 and colors 256 at once. ;-)
your videos never disappoint me. thanks for your awesomeness
Absolute madlad.
With a Mouse Sam is a really good Artist!! Keep up the good Work
I love this. Idk how you pulled this off.
And drawing @gracieabrams was a good pick.
Really goes to show that you don't need fancy and expensive tools to do what you love. It was a little painful even to watch you do it, but the result looks GREAT regardless :)
moral of the story: no matter how hard you try sam will still be better
Amazing!!! Keep up the good work idol❤️❤️
Great job Sam especially with the mouse ..gives me inspiration to do one .
My first digital paintings were done in MS Paint on Windows 3 or 3.11 with a mouse. It was early 90s. Didn't have any other option than a mouse.
I Really enjoy sam video's after classes i always watch it , it relieves stress
thank youuuuu
how are you so good at this, oh my goodness! :000 well done! :DDDD
I think people like to see these challenges because you actually give it an honest effort great video 🙌🙌 I didn't see him mentioned in the comments but I would recommend looking up the artist Craig Mullins! He was one the first digital painters I remember and he started with a mouse. Dunno if he switched to a stylus but he has some incredible early environments that are mind blowing especially considering the hardware and software of the time haha
ive been learning to draw digitally first time and ONLY HAVE a mouse..ugh.....painful. Yet when I get better equipment will be so much better. I already can sketch, draw, paint, but w mouse...wow. you did great first time trying w a mouse.
bro you're unbreakable
We were all that and a can of paint back in the 90’s when Microsoft Paint was introduced. At work, fascinated and drawing Marvel and Disney characters with the mouse.😅 I wish I could have transferred them all. I was most proud of Smurfette and Pumba😂 but I still have my Spidy on floppy disk. Ahhh, the good ole days!
That's how I started as well, doing pixel art on MS Paint ages ago. It wasn't too difficult to translate to digital painting on Photoshop, although still it's harder to get the correct lines than on pen and paper.
If you can't afford a huge display tablet, just start with the xp pen 4x3 drawing tablet. Its 25 bucks and seriously got me through the beginning stages of digital art.