I've been slowly recovering from a bad point in my life, where even the act of making art felt miserable and pointless. You can probably see a lot of that in my first blog post, but I won't look back at it because I don't feel like cringing, nor deleting it.

Now that I have a different frame on my art goals - that being, to become an animator, all the art studies I've been shying away from suddenly look very very fun. Just today I picked up the fine liner pen again, and hit the sketchbook for some work & play.

Damn, does the pen feel comforting, considering it's the first tool I used to practice art seriously back when I was still in school. I retouched on some Drawabox homework I had previously done to get my bearings, and even that felt like a creativity boon. I plan on finishing it for real, so I can finally get my perspective locked down, and improve my draftsmanship in general.

Have some more art books coming in on the topics of creature/character design, color/lighting, cartooning, and storyboarding. I plan on pushing out some simple storyboards/animatics with a focus on utilizing composition and perspective to my best ability.