(X-posted from my dA journal)

Sent my portfolio off to my old animation teacher (that is, my animation teacher of old, not my aged animation teacher, as he is still under forty) and just got back some amazing, really helpful, very specific crits! I am totally jazzed, as he balanced approval ("I like this work a lot") with specific criticisms of tendencies I have that I need to look to ("sometimes the weight on your standing poses is off"; "sometimes you break the shoulder"), and rounded it off with recommendations for how to improve ("study from life more regarding form, poses and anatomy"). So awesomely cool! This is how we learn ... and never stop improving!

(Btw, do people actually say "jazzed" anymore? I don't even know.)

002: Love


I did this drawing yesterday, as a warm-up before getting into a tough character design problem I've been butting my head against all week.  I'll have #003 later!

My goal is not to spend a lot of time laboriously perfecting a drawing, but just to get something drawn, every day.  Even if it sucks.  kuraku_chan will remember the guy who said you have to do about a million sucky drawings before you start doing good ones.  :D

That being said, here's the first one: