Wacom Digital Stylus Art, trying to learn it Options

[Ibis]

I'm starting this new topic because I'm trying to learn to use my Wacom pad & stylus pen better because I want to do FanArt in my computer. I've been a watercolor/pastel drawing artist all my life, but I want to learn digital art. My attempts right now are childish compared to traditional arts by me - whenever I use Paint program whether with mouse or stylus pen, I feel like I'm learning to fingerpaint all over again....fun but messy!
Anyone who has digital art tips - I'd sure appreciate them. All comments welcome too. So here goes ...

This is one of my pastel drawing floral arrangements just entitled MIRROR:
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/Sun.../mirrorSALE.jpg

... compared with this digital floral I just did, yes it's for Pisces called AMADEUS UNDERWATER FLORAL:
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/Sun...waterFloral.jpg
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This is a digital portrait I just imagined and drew using a small microsoft mouse, I named it MIRRORED BLUSH:
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/Sun...rroredBlush.jpg

Here's someone a little similar, she's the first portrait I ever painted in watercolors from a Nathional Geographic magazine cover - I call her NOMAD WOMAN:
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/Sun...lorfaceSALE.jpg

* I do make large kaleidoscopic eyes sometimes on purpose.
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Here is a WINGED MESSENGER, a delivery elf of sorts ... done digitally with a mouse trackball.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/Sun...edMessenger.jpg

A comparably ornately dressed INDIAN GIRL from a Burrlington wool ad that I drew in pastels (you can see I had to change brands of pastels from chalky to creamy where I finished the hands ... lolol)
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/Sun...astel-4SALE.jpg
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Okay, here's a really bad one .... my first attempt with the stylus pen while in the pencil mode called TWO-STEP SCRABBLE:
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/Sun...tepscrabble.jpg

Here are some pastel studies of someone who really knew how to dance .. DAVID LEE ROTH:
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/Sun...LRofVH4SALE.jpg

* Forgot I gave it a rug texture to make it a tapestry in a Morrowind mod.
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Since about 1995 I've cpmputer-repaired some of my hand-done art that had gotten damaged (Florida humidity & palmetto bugs are heck on paintings - I've lost some too far gone.) And I learned to enhance and even totally change my artwork via the computer - but have only recently really gotten the drive to draw digitally. Just a few enhancement examples:

This was a rather washed out grey-to-brownish pastel drawing of MESA VERDE from a photo by my sisiter. When I did a negative of the colors though and played around a little with the color values, it became much more interesting digitally than on paper:
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/Sun...light-4sale.jpg

These two came from a decent bright summers day pastel drawing - but you can see the variations available digitally from the same picture IBISES:
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/Sun...eIbisesSALE.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/Sun...icTile-sale.jpg

This watercolor called BLUE EGRET I simply repaired digitally because I used childsafe watercolors to draw it (our bands guitarist had 4 little girls who used to paint in my studio) but after I hanging it on the wall, I got the shocking awareness that palmetto bugs like to suck the paint. Luckily I could make the damage look like ripples and raindrops.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/Sun...framed-sale.jpg
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Well, that's my little tour for now anyway. I would have spaced this out more over several posts but when I came online today, the forum skin has changed and dummy me - I can't figure out how to find the REPLY button to any of the threads.

So tell me what you think of my art attempts, ok? Any problems you see should be addressed, that's what I'm looking to fix. I realize I just have to get more practice with the digital art but it is frustrating to have everything you do look like some little kid did it. Teehehehe They could probably do much better, come to think of it!