[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-drawingwithsarah-episode-2-trailer":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"With events cancelled, I've had a little bit of time to try to teach myself some simple animation skills. There have been some great how-to-draw videos by artists who started out as trained animators (\u003Ca href=\"http://www.robbiddulph.com\">Rob Biddulph\u003C/a>! \u003Ca href=\"https://www.jimfield.me\">Jim Field\u003C/a>! \u003Ca href=\"https://www.lydiamonks.com\">Lydia Monks\u003C/a>! \u003Ca href=\"https://fredbluntillustration.com\">Fred Blunt\u003C/a>!) and while their animation skills are WAY beyond mine (they are truly awesome people), it's encouraging me to up my game! And since I know so little (and don't seem to have any stored royalty-free music on my computer), I thought I'd go the opposite way from them and make it very low-tech (like this wooden xylophone I bought for a fiver from Flying Tiger last year). \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/912942_original-c1a8ce100e.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n...But maybe it's good, a lot of people will be learning things from scratch while they're stuck at home, and sometimes things with rough edges are more inspiring when people think, \u003Ci>Hey, I could do that!\u003C/i> I've already seen one kid named Rudra release his own How-to-Draw video, which is fabulous. And 11-year-old Alec Anderson (\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CFcomiX\">@CFComix\u003C/a> on Twitter) has been drawing up a story over on the \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/StudioTeaBreak\">@StudioTeaBreak drawing challenge page\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jabberworks/status/1242004737182044167\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/913304_original-6cd8c4f78d.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nIt's tempting to release the videos as soon as I finish making them, to see what people think, but I should probably pace myself, because we might be social distancing or quarantined for quite a long time. I can't do Reeve & McIntyre events right now, but the next animation might just have a special guest... Oh, and Grumpycorn makes an appearance, voiced by my husband Stuart (who's working at the next desk since he got sent home from the office).\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"4549\"/>\\r\n\\r\nAs ever, there are lots of free, downloadable activities \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/books/\">over on my website\u003C/a>!\\r\n\\r\nA few fab pictures from the #DrawingWithSarah hashtag:\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ResilientRatti1/status/1241778377037615107\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/913420_original-3923107303.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MrBoothY6/status/1242172330912202754\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/913770_original-6718dd55a9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MissHLynch/status/1242162710651064323\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/913965_original-98be5a7d39.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u003C/a>","2020-03-23T16:46:00.000Z","drawingwithsarah-episode-2-trailer",[],"#DrawingWithSarah: Episode 2 trailer!",1776628730514]