Full Body Side View Walk

This is my third walk, now adding a full body complete with arms and head. This is another copy of an example from Tony's book. I added a "pencil" cleanup just to see what it would look like. This high-stepping walk is more like a march, but I'm not concentrating on personality yet, just learning the up and down motion along with the arm swinging.

Front Walk

This is my second walk, a front-on view I copied from Tony's book. Even though it's pretty bow-legged, I'm starting to see how even a real simple walk can be varied. I tested it before creating the last inbetween and the effect gave the walk a little swagger. More practice and variations on the timing to come. Hopefully my drawing will improve too.

Learning To Walk Again

Here are some updates since my last post:

• I got a 6x8 Wacom tablet and 'upgraded' to felt pen tips. Using these along with Toon Boom Studio solves my procrastinating-inducing dilemma of how I want to continue to learn.
• I've adjusted my expectations and come to terms with the fact that animation is hard and more time-consuming than I first thought. To learn and do it with any skill at all is going to take a long time especially considering that I have to work it in with my other responsibilities.
  
• Since the FAS folks are moving a good deal slower on returning my assignments than I'd prefer, I got a very used copy of the highly recommended FAS Cartoon Course to work through at my own pace.
• I'm slowly working through The Animator's Workbook. I just started the chapter on walks. Very convenient with the Ken Harris/Richard Williams discussion I just read (from Cartoon Brew). I plan to pencil test most, if not all, the exercises along with whatever else I feel is appropriate. The pencil test below isn't an exercise though, it's just an example I copied from the book.