I had so much fun with this! This week, I made this animation with a digital drawing that I did several months ago of a character based on myself, and then created layers with different mouth and eyebrow expressions. As I was putting together the frames from the different combinations of drawing layers, I thought about how each syllable looks in the mouth while also balancing the tone that I wanted the animation to have. I realized it is impossible to say the "m" sound in "Welcome" without closing one's mouth while I was lining up the different expressions to my voice saying "Hello, world! Welcome to my site!" I worked on this toon a bit every night this week, and now I present it to you!
Today I imagined meditating in the desert, sitting on a plateau, surrounded by desert plants and embraced by canyons. Here is my sketching process of using a studio ink digital brush and airbrush tool to illustrate this scene on my tablet. I hope it helps you imagine too.