I LOVE THE NEW PFP OMG ITS GORGEOUS
AHHH thank you!!! asjdnfiuqhferiuqh it’s me lol. i also animated it in procreate using animation assist, it took forever, as everything i draw does, but i think teaching myself animation has officially become my newest autistic hyperfixation, so i was having fun with the suffering
if anyone's interested in the process, this involved me using my own hands as reference (bc i could not get the poses right from imagination). i took photos of myself doing the gesture, then drew the hand motion along with the self-portrait frame by frame until it looked like it made sense
a tip i find useful is to reuse a lot from the previous frame. so instead of redrawing everything from scratch, i duplicate the old layer and work from that. then i only redraw or liquify the parts that need to change. it makes the movement feel more consistent and also saves you from losing your mind lol
i also try to focus on the main motion first before cleaning anything up. so instead of rendering every frame right away, i block in the rough movement and play it back a bunch of times to see if it flows. it’s much easier to fix the stuff when everything's still messy