Part 2 of my animation cel experiment

After 12 hours of painstaking painting cels front and back, and mixing different colors and lack of color ink (only brown ink), I finally managed to finish my experiment of a cel of my characters from the Questo's World webcomic. I had to paint the outline of Ms. Amor's hair and Candy's stripes on her sweater, as well as Candy's tail outline being black instead of pink, as there was no purple, pink and yellow ink.

Front:

Back:

Now, as I said in my previous post, I wanted to compare the look of the characters from cel to digital.

Now there's obviously always a differences between the look from cel and digital ink-and-paint. The colors are less vibrant and the outlines are thicker. I've been undecided of the size of the outlines of Questo's World, wanting to make thick and thin to give it an old cartoon look.

As I've said, if it's possible, I would want Questo's World to be cel-animated.

Doing my own animation cel

I finally got much of items I needed to do what I've been desired for quite a while; making my own animation cel. I've been thinking for a while: how would my characters look like in cel animation, as well as other animated shows that were initially digitally animated. 

I still wish this technique was still in use today, getting to nice feeling of that the animation done by human hands rather than technology, especially with the rise of A.I. supposedly taking over. 

Did the pencil sketch of the Questo's World characters; Questo, Mickey Houndfair, Ms. Amor and Candy Cottontail.

Partially finished inking of the characters

This is my first time doing something like this. It's, of course, very difficult when compared to digital ink-and-paint.

Obviously, the inking is pretty rough, but it'll be cleaned up once I do the painting.

Got me some:

*Speedball Ink Pen 

*Different color ink 

*Acrylic paint 

*Blank stencil sheets 

Next post will include the finalization of the cel, and likely compare the colors and overall look to digital ink-and-paint.