Learning Digital Painting - with mouse

Now that my introduction speech is done, let's move on to the things that matter. After a bit of fiddling with some slow, rough sketching done with a mouse -

I finally moved over to some colored drawings-

Making drawings like these was a lot of fun as it was somewhat a challenge to paint with a mouse. But it did the job of helping me understand the basics of digital painting and getting hang of GIMP - the free equivalent of Adobe Photoshop.