First Time I Dabble in Animation (Digitally)

I messed with a little animation for the first time last week. I don't know why...but there it is, haha...

 

The GIF version:

 

I used my character Deirdre's eyes, and wasn't really paying attention to making the art look great or right or fabulous; I was just trying out the animation tools in Clip Studio Paint, haha.

I got a couple of in-progress screen grabs:

The blue lines were like the sketch layer over the top to help me figure out the in-betweens or whatever you call it. XD

With the "onion skin" layers activated, so you can see what was in the frames before and after to help line things up

I ended up rearranging the thing into the reverse order of how I drew it, though, because it looked like the eyes were slowly closing and then snapping open again quickly, like someone trying not to fall asleep, when it was the other way, haha!

Altogether, it was only eight frames and four drawings, and I am guessing it took me about five hours total (I never remember to keep careful track of my time, especially when something is not finished in one sitting/day...)? I don't know how "smooth" the animation is, but it was definitely a fun needless diversion from my normal art pursuits. XD
 

 

(My siblings and I played around with a tiny bit of that kind of flip-book-drawing animation doodles when we were kids, but idk if that counts as animation, haha)

 

(Also I noticed the dates on blog posts and the commenting options are all in English now? Is it like that for everyone? Was it an automatic thing or was it changed deliberately? Anyway, I'm not sure I like it, haha. I miss seeing "keine kommentare" and "Montag" and 24 hour time stamps lol)