I am doodling and animating in spite of my better judgement again

Yeah, you can't keep Winton on task for very long, that's for sure. 😅 I have been drawing these things on the periphery of coloring Libby & Holly-- I'm up to page 24/44 which sounds like not very far but there's some color on everything, I'm just doing final pass stuff on most of it.

I'm drawing cute stuff again with thick lines to make it easier and also revisiting character design options for that satyr character I'll need to start drawing soon 🤔

Check the attachment for this if you want to see the timelapse for these drawings! 📺

Art Talk

My biggest barrier in creating art is expectation. If I think I should be able to do more than I'm capable of, I'll get discouraged and slow or stop. My successful(complete) projects are the ones where my expectations for it did not wear down my resolve/momentum to complete it before I reached the end.

In that sense, a projects success is determined by my very first choices about my expectations for it. This is why I love limitations so much in my work. Limited palettes, fewer locations, simpler characters, etc. It's not that I couldn't do something elaborate and complicated ie Fitting for a Lady, but that requires me to be at my best, and I'm more creative if I set expectations based on mid-tier Winton's work, not S-Tier Winton's work.

This got me thinking about animation again, I think if I was going to pursue short animation I would have to put some strong restrictions in place at the beginning, like:

1- A soundtrack or audio track to animate to so I don't worry about how I don't know anything about sound design.
2- A style of simple cartoon characters that looks nothing like the way I normally draw so I can have physicality but don't need to think about character model consistency.
3- Not a looping animation where things have to cleanly reconnect motion and fixate on line wiggle.

I love highly technical, beautifully drawn animation characters like from the ero anime character sheets I shared yesterday but I think if I tried to work on something that looks that clean to begin with I would start and stop 1000 times before I ever finished, whereas I could blaze through an animation with a looser style and actually have something to show for it.

The challenge, of course, is accepting the fact that I would like to be able to do something complex, but really should start with something simple and easy. 🙃 Thanks for letting me vent.

....Happy Wednesday! 😅

Winton