SB2 - How it (the Circus) works

Ok so. I don't know quite what you're thinking but perhaps you were thinking this and yes, you're right, they were done very quickly. it involved an emergency trip in to uni on a saturday and some very stressed friends advice and wise words to get these done- but i did it! phew. BIG stress. Mostly cause i'm a digital idiot and photoshop scares the bejeeeebus out of me. the other part is that i still haven't learned my lesson and done work when i should have done. Again. However- i'm actually sort of proud of these? Ok so they were done hand drawn and very simply with scribbled lines- the paper behind them is ripped and mucky-but maybe this is just my aesthetic now? who needs perfection (ok so when i saw some of the class's gifs they were superb and i got a little bit jealous, but i'm learning to love and accept what i have to give too)

BUT. OK so the hand-scribbled-ness is an aesthetic i planned on using all along- just when it came down to it, i couldn't think of an actual theme. How what works?? i don't really know much about science culture religion maths .. anything- so help me i am really too oblivious to my surroundings. i don't even really like music- how the heck am i mean to make 3-5 gifs explaining something when i don't know anything??? my sketchbook filled up with hundreds of inconsistent ideas that i loathed- how doors work- how people on trains work- how flowers work- they became really mundane and i got super stressed- my sketchbook shows very little development of ideas and this one hundred percent reflects my own attitude towards this project. Super super uninspired. BUT THAT'S OK (i think...? well that's what i learned from this anyway.......... oh well)

So on a late friday night i finally decided to do someone dancing. I was stuck about who was dancing and why- then i remembered my old next door neighbor was an ariel artist and thought screw it ill try and do that ? Then i got a little idea about the circus- just a little one but it was all i had to work with- and began thinking about more aspects of the circus- ok so these gif's aren't really deep and thought through, but that 's ok. the consistent colour theme and style keeps it all together as a piece and they don't NOT go together, i guess? (i still laugh at how shit the one with the leaping tiger is but hoenstly, i'm here for a good time too so why not make shit work that is funny and enjoyable because it's so childish and lame?)

 i was thinking it would be easy to describe a repetitive movement with a scribbly style of graphite and coloured pencil. The process i found really soothing once me and the lightbox got going- working quickly (under a heck of a lot of pressure) is kind of my vibe- i think if i spent a lot of time on something perfect it would turn out dead and commercial and it wouldn't feel my own - these gifs, although unprofessional and a little bit hobbycraft DIY, feel like a little extension of me and my practice. That's why i'm proud of them. And me. Woooooo.