Okay, so maybe I'm not gifted.
Whatever.
Here's a really terrible, tiny, and lossy GIF showing the process I used to create the art for my game.

First I drew the picture on a blank sheet of paper. I am by no means an artist or an animator (it took me a couple tries just to get the drawing in the video right), so I used minimal frames (by chopping up the images and moving the parts to create movement). Then I scanned them in and inverted the colors in paint.net (me image editor of choice).
The reason I inverted the colors in the first place was because it would be easy to remove the background using additive color once I had scanned the pictures in.
Additive color?
Additive color takes the color of each pixel and adds its values to the one below it. Because black has a value of zero in all categories, the black is not drawn and voila! You have a see-through outline.
From there I used myscriptfont.com to create a font from my own handwriting, and the art was complete.
Again, sorry about the GIF, the max upload size is 4 WHOLE MEGABYTES! (My gifs turn out to be somewhere between 30 and 40, by default)
Use this site to optimize your GIFs. It will take the filesize down up to 60%.