Dumb GIFs! (Patreon)

Hey, happy Tuesday! I thought I'd be drawing the whole time I was with my family, but after a year of barely seeing them, I kept my devices in my bedroom and just spent the whole visit hanging out with them. (We all made plans to quarantine the two weeks before Christmas so we could spend the holidays together.) 

My brother bought an iPad Pro recently, and while we were going over all the stuff we haven't been able to share in person all year, I remembered Flipaclip and all the animations I made during those months that were somehow both yesterday and also a decade ago (February and March). 

I got him and my dad both to animate little dumb things on the app. I think I deleted Brent's, but here's my dad's first one (shh don't tell him I showed you):

Here's his second attempt! He learned!

Anyway, I made that quick 5-frame horse & bird to show how easy it is to make it look like you know what you're doing, and then colored it:

Then everyone went to bed and I spent an idiotic amount of time making this 50-frame animation:

These things take such a stupid amount of time to make, but I love that I never know how they're gonna end up. They just grow from frame to frame. :)

I'll have a few little paintings to show off to you next! They're almost done. Here's a teaser clue: DnD 5.0 Monster Manual (nerrrrds).

If you're the Christmas-celebrating sort, what'd you end up doing for your holiday? Whatever you did over the last week, away or alone or in your established bubble, I hope it was fulfilling. <3