Landscape GIF | Adding the figure

As I had prepared the background, all I had to do next was add in the figure and animate. I've spent a lot of time making the actual figure of the character, and I've found that drawing on such a small scale is quite difficult. Things get pixelated easily, so I'm having to constantly check the zoom/scale.

Not entirely happy with how this looks currently, however I still need to add the details and facial features. I may change things around yet.

Before getting into animating the limb properly, I did some really quick line drawings to show how it would work. As frustrating as it is, I may have to go over each individual layer with a more refined line drawing, before laying down the flat colour.

This is just to ensure that there is consistency between the shapes, to avoid any sudden jumps or changes in movement. I might even go back and change some of these frames, as I feel that the movement of the arm is unnatural and weird.

I'm finding this process really time consuming and frustrating for such a plain looking outcome.