Merry Christmas 2020!

Hey hey hey! We made it to Christmas! What an achievement!

The coronavirus can't cancel this holiday!

To ring in some holiday cheer, I drew up some colorful Christmas art, as per usual!

I was barely about to finish this artwork just in time to post this for Christmas. Just barely!

Hope you guys rest easy with family and friends today!

Merry Christmas everyone!

November Animation Practice - Magic Malfunction

Wow! I feel like I'm super mega hella late with this one! And I am!

I went through a bad art block during November and in early December. Because of that, I literally had zero drive and motivation to animate. I was incredibly frustrated with early versions of this animation and completely started over on it twice.

Hell, even before the art block I had zero ideas on what to do for November's animation!

The process for November's animation was a bit of a wild ride, but I finally finished it!

Autumn returns for November, trying to get the hang of using a more powerful magic wand.

(Right click on the video and loop it for a better effect)

She's got much to learn if she ever wants to become a more powerful witch.

Normally, I try to finish last month's animation before the 20th of next month and start a new animation on the 20th (i.e. finishing November's animation before December 20th, then starting December's animation on the 20th), but with the many issues that rose during November, I wasn't quite able to hit my marks and deadlines.

Oh well, at least it's done! And I like the end result too!

Now I have less than four days to start and finish this year's Christmas art! Oh dear oh my!

October Animation Practice - Pumpkin Haircut

I'm back with October's animation practice!

In this short bit, a pumpkin meets with a barber. I wonder what kind of stylish cut he will get? This time around, my voice acting makes an appearance.

Besides the fun joke that plays out here, I wanted this month's animation to look like an animated comic strip, complete with word bubbles and everything. Right from the start, I gave myself the non-serious challenge of completing this animation in less than a week; I started this one a few days before Halloween, so I was aiming for a completion date of either October 31st or November 1st/2nd.

Obviously I never hit those dates as I finished this on the 11th.

Going back on this looking like an animated comic strip, I drew it out initially as a rough comic strip (or a storyboard) to have a base for the pumpkin designs and how it would play out. Here's that rough strip:

I had a completely different idea for October's animation, but I feel like that idea would bring the animation to be about 30 seconds to about a minute long. Anything at that length would be qualified to be posted on my YouTube (which I promise I'll update with a new video whenever I get the idea/chance.)

As a matter of fact, I'm still unsure if I should post these animation practices on the Doji Pocket YouTube channel. Maybe as a compilation? I dunno yet.

I currently have no idea what to do for November's animation. Guess we'll see what I come up with next month!

More Autumn the Witch Sketches

How can I not post more sketches of Autumn the Witch during the autumn season?

I'm really digging this new character if that's not apparent by now. It's nice to go back to drawing in a cartoon style that resembles my very early art. I definitely want to continue exploring (or re-exploring) that very simple toon style.

In other thoughts, I should really give more attention to the Mr. Ridiculous and Fasty's characters though; it's time I finalize their character designs and give them a proper line up.