Hi everyone!!. Currently I'm learning traditional animation by myself. Since I bought Richards William's animators survival kit, I pay close atention to the "Learning to Draw Chapter" , where he says he spend almost two years refining his drawing skills before going to animation. I'm an arts and graphic design student at college, although I consider myself good at drawing , I know that I have some gaps to fill. Im trying to spend almost that kind of time sharping my drawing skills before animate, But... I really want to animate. I know very well the value of drawing but Is so wrong learning to draw and animate at the same time?

Greetings, and excuse my bad english

Hi fastpencil and welcome to the site. It is no problem that you animate at the same time as you better your drawing abilities. All I would say is that in the beginning, until your drawing is stronger, avoid difficult characters such as anything 'classical Disney'. Those characters, although it is tempting to want to try characters like that, will not give you satisfactory results until you really have a solid base, the 2 years (at least) Richard Williams suggests.
For the moment concentrate on very simple characters and shapes for your first animations.
Good luck and be sure to post your first tests

Chris

Hi!!. Thankyou very much for answer. I'm gonna practice every day. Sure, I'll show my first test soon.

Greetings!,