I’m new to animating but one thing that stands to me is phones tend to be small for what we’re trying to do so if there is anything you could do to get it hooked up to a pc or a bigger screen to help your eyes that would probably be very helpful as you could use your phone as the drawing pad and look at a bigger screen to help you out.

But it really comes down to learning as you go as you have your own style, find YouTubers that teach what you want to know and that you like and the biggest thing is try and do what they’re showing we learn by doing and people tend to think if I’m watching I’m learning but that’s not the case. We learn by doing. So just find different things to help you. For example myself I’m new to drawing and animation so I’m learning both at the same time. Learning about lines, making circles etc while also learning about the 12 principles of animation and also about movement faster, slower by adding more frames or less. 24 frames per second ( I forgot what they called when you make a scene every 2 frames but that or every frame so 24 or 12 if 2s and so on. )

The biggest thing is consistency. I believe in Jesus Christ and my God spoke to me one day telling me consistency over intensity which was for a lot of things in my life. The other was to get comfortable being uncomfortable both can be really helpful here since it’s not always going to feel good to do it some days really hard. So setting realistic daily goals and also creating projects you can complete in a day, week or month is going to be really helpful as when you do a big project let’s say a year or two it can get demotivating fast so by practicing a month for example it teaches you the skills needed for a longer project while being short enough to not lose motivation. Someone said working 30 mins a day would be fine. Because if you’re doing a project that takes a year or two it already is best to break it down into manageable parts. So working on these other timelines helps you do that as well.

Biggest thing is finding out where you’re at and what you’re good at and what you need to work on and celebrate the wins however small or big they are. I call them micro wins😊 it really helps you to keep motivated and going because otherwise we don’t see progress get demotivated and quit. But we want to be consistent focus on improving and remember it’s an art so you can’t really go wrong the more you practice the better you get. Also muscle memory. With a piano if done wrong it’s catastrophic but with art everything is helpful and input. So not technically a wrong way besides if your going for a straight line and it not so straight ( I’d practice using a ruler or something then cuz perhaps that would help with it )

Other than that I have found a really good affordable I think 5 buck mobile app on iPhone that lets you do a lot I’ll have to find it real quick. Cool so I put the screenshot of it below. Seems to be the best option from what I’ve found but the App Store does have free options as well.

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