Hi Laguna I'm fairly new to animating in Xara (made 3 including this little sketch)
I worked backwards to animate this little quick sketch animation in Xara GPD7...its easier for me this way.
- open a new animated page
- sketch my line drawing with the freehand sketch mode button enabled note; I sketched the whole animation on one page only
- then...I copied the frame several times
- then working backwards from the last frame I started to delete segments and move some of them
- working back up along the frame list
- I'd watch it and adjust a frame as necessary
- I'd then change each frame seconds of duration to 0.1
- Exported into gif format
I'm always learning and each time getting better...sketching is practice of a skill: some more naturally than others but someone who has never sketched can learn the skill of sketch by practice... find a simple pic... copy it 100 times... you will soon know how to skill that image you copied.
Personally I tend not to follow a normal copy of something but using it only as a reference then always want to create something original from it or an idea and bend it to my will, so I bend my skill to my whimsy if that helps you understand more about drawing process for artists.
Goodluck))
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