For me, first stepping fading illustration that I know I want to animate is planning. I'll show you the way that I usually planned my illustrations, which makes them a lot easier to animate later on. The key idea is to separate which parts of your illustration will be moving and which ones will not be moving. First, I'm going to make a sketch of my illustrations to plan out the composition. So first projects, you're going to do a very simple self portrait, you can draw only the face you can do a half body, full body, whatever makes you happy, I'm going to do a half body. Once you have sketches done, you can decide which parts of your illustration you want to enemy.
Let's say you want to animate the hair so that it looks like the wind is going to make this a little easier. You can paint it in a different color and that way you know that this will be on a different layer. Once you're in Photoshop, so I'm going to paint my hair blue. That's the part that I want to animate later. Once your sketch is ready, you can upload it to the class community page. I'd love to see your process and give you some feedback on your sketches and how everything's going.
And in the next video, I'll show you how to start your illustrations directly on Photoshop.