This next section will be a little more complicated because it takes some thinking until you get used to it. And also only animate the hair in my gift, but I'm going to show you how to animate a few different things because they do vary a little bit. Essentially, each layer we draw will be a different frame. I'll explain the differences between layers and frames a little later. First, I'm going to group my static layers into a folder. So I'll select both of them by holding down Shift and drag them both down to this folder icon.

This will put them both inside a folder or a group going to rename this group static so that I know it will never move. To draw the animated parts of your illustration you will make a new folder and name it frames come down here and click on this folder icon and you'll see there's a new group want to rename it frames inside this folder, we're going to Add the number of frames that we want and the number each layer in order. For this project, I suggest you stick to three or four frames maximum. So in order to make these layers, you come down here to create new layer and create three or four new layers. It depends on what you want to do. And then I'm going to just number them 123 and four.

First, I'm going to show you how to animate the hair. You can start with a base layer and follow the drawing of your original sketch. So let's turn back on our sketch layer so we can see it. And let's make sure we're drawing in our frame, one layer so select that and then you're going to follow your drawing and draw Once you've done this, you can undo your sketch layer again because we won't need it anymore. So you come down to sketch and click on this eye right next to it. For frame two, you want to decrease the opacity of your frame one, so we should select it called opacity and bring it down to around 30%.

You can then come back to frame to make sure it's selected. And now you can redraw the hair once again, but this time, you want to make sure you don't exactly follow the lines. From frame one, you want to have some variations. This is what's going to give us movement. So you can see I'm not drawing on the same lines as if you make sure that the hair in frame two is not exactly the same as the hair in frame one. See that there will be some movement.

So let's undo frame two. And let's put frame one up to 100% opacity. And now you can see when we move from one to the other there's a little movement. So the same process can be used for other objects that you want to give the same wavy effect to, for example, a plant in the background clothes that move with the wind, etc. So we're going to do the same thing for frame three and frame four. So frame one we're finished with.

Let's put frame to the Opacity down and now going to frame three we will draw our hair once again with variations will do the same thing for frame four. So sit down the capacity frame three. Make sure you go back to frame four and Draw your hair one more time. If you want to animate the eyes and make them blink, the process is similar to the hair. In this case, we'll create three frames, one with the eyes open one with the eyes half closed and one with the eyes closed. If you're animating the eyes, you want to start without the eye.

Sony's going to erase mine really quickly from my static frame so that we can start from scratch. So just like before, we're going to create three different layers inside of a group and name each one. So I'm going to close my frames here. I'm going to make a new group. We'll call it eyes. And I want to make three ways inside of this group.

Right so we'll have One, two, and three. layer one is going to be my eyes. Open, just my regular eyes. So I'll draw that in. To draw their tool, do the same thing I did before to crease the opacity of layer one. Make sure I'm in layer two.

And now I'll make the eyes half, open, half closed. I'll just do this for layer three, layer two, transparent Commons layer three, and I'll make my layer three my eyes closed. So let's make sure they're all at 100% again. So now you'll see if I switch from one to two to three. There's a bit of movement and once we animate that flow a lot better Another thing you can play around with an animate is textures. In this case, if you remember in my sketch, there were freckles on her arm and her neck.

I didn't draw those in because I want to animate them and make them look like they're moving around. Again, it's the same process, I'm going to make a new folder. I'm going to call it freckles. And since this is very simple, I'm just going to make three different frames. So one, new layer two and three. It's always just the same.

So here, I'm going to go into my layer one, pick out my brush. And I'm going to draw freckles. Wherever I want my freckles in my layer one, same thing, decrease the opacity. Come into layer two, and then when I draw them on layer two, I want to make sure I don't Put the fractals in exactly the same spots. For layer three, same thing, I'll bring layer one up to 100%, layer two down to down and opacity. And in layer three, I'll draw freckles like, again, avoiding the spaces where they were before.

Now I have all of my layers will make sure they're all at 100%. Yeah. And then when I animate them, it'll look like they're moving around. So remember, we want to keep this project simple, since we're learning so choose one of these examples to animate for your project. later on. If you'd like to try to animate all of the things that I just showed you.

At the same time, you can definitely do that. If you'd like some feedback on this part of the process or just wants to make sure that your layers and your files are correct. You can apply Load your work to the class community, either as a PSD file or as a screenshot of your Photoshop file. So if you have any questions about this part, please feel free to ask me I would love to use some feedback and see how your projects are going.