Well, one can’t be thrifty all the time. I purchased a wacom bamboo graphics tablet for my Chinese research; I have a handwriting recognition program where I can input unknown characters through a graphics tablet to look them up in a dictionary. But happily, this means that I also can use said tablet for occasional scribblage, which is nice. The pen tool gets some getting used to.
But here, some shaky first efforts:
I also drew a face for this dancer, though it looked a bit odd in proportion to the rest of the body, so I thought the overall figure looked best without a face, as above.

This year, I just might draw my Xmas card on the tablet. Hooray another procrastinatory tool.