Making my own stop motion animation

There are many different mediums one could take when it comes to making a stop motion; you can draw it out by hand on a flip book, use legos and create a scene, or use clay to morph shapes. Originally I wanted to make my stop motion using clay, but since I don't have any clay to use I figured that I can simply draw out what it was I wanted to do and make it that way. That's why for this project I am using my drawing tablet to draw out frame by frame my animation. I am using an app called ArtRage to draw my animation with, since I know that time will be a bit of an issue I'm not going to make it overly complicated; instead, I'm gonna use this as a learning opportunity so that I can find out what works well and what doesn't for future events.
What I have planed so far isn't much, I'll admit that, but I have a basic idea of what I want to do. I want to show a ball bounce into frame an over the course of the video morph into different shapes, as can be seen below in my quick story board I made.

       Obviously I plan to do more then just that but for now that is what I have.
While working I made each frame and story board it's own layer; which is a bit difficult to do being that the layers quickly add up and the more layers I have the more my computer slows down, not to mention that it can get hard and time consuming to keep track of all my layers. Something that I like to do to see how smooth my animation looks is by making it into a gif, its a rather quick and simple progress that I find works for me; here's a gif of what I have done so far:

As you can see I still have a lot to do in order to finish this in time, so wish me luck and I will go on back to work.