>>7778515
>god this is so tiresome i just wanted an easy lineart to practice coloring kekkkk why is this so HARD

Yeah I've been there, it's rough like that but all steps have to be treated with the same time and respect as the previous. That's the hard part about learning. Some people draw until they have a solid drawing then the next day they'll use that for colors. Smarter people (who do not get the ick from it) simply trace what they want to practice and then work on what they want to isolate specifically. My ego doesn't let me do that so I'll use all my cognitive stamina drawing the same thing over and over until I get something I like then color it. Ultimately you may have to work like >>7778516 if you were doing this professionally so I don't see a problem with going down that path, there are jap artists that use the transform tool as much as they breathe.