wolkigs

2022: i think a shift happened around october-november 2022? that’s kind of where i realized 1) i want to be a storyboard artist for real actually 2) being an artist professionally / working in the animation industry isn’t completely impossible like i thought. everything slowly clicked mentally for a few months and then i developed an insatiable drive for learning and improvement haha :] i have a lot to learn still but i’m having fun along the way regardless!

older art: i do want to mention how crazy it is that i stopped drawing for over a year in 2019-2020??? i still remember how rough it was to start drawing again, it almost felt like i was drawing for the first time... i was really nervous and doubtful and my skills felt so unstable T_T. i can’t see myself choosing to “give up” drawing again; i love it too much now... there’s so much to do and learn!!! i’ve been drawing more this month than i was in most months in 2022 even LOL.

reference used (youtube) (same as previous). 12 drawings. done in... 6 or 7 hours??? spread across 2 days in several segments. this was gonna be longer but i unintentionally made a near perfect loop lol?! so i went with that

here’s the first pass i ended up with at the end of day 1:

i didn’t intend to have this much detail... but it’s still better than what i would usually end up doing!, which is spend a ton of time trying to draw every little thing on every frame. allowing myself to draw faster and imperfectly is something i’m working on with these studies. my goal is to draw (less detailed) frames in like 3 minutes, but i’d love to get to around 5-10.

reference used (youtube). 19 different drawings & done in a bit over 4 hours, i think.