IamA a female animator AMA as I draw 50 portraits of Redditors over the next 48 hrs !

Is hair pretty much the best thing to draw ever?

http://i.imgur.com/Xx9G6yI.jpg

nothing turns me on more

Solid hook, I'll edit in a headshot in a little but, my question is this:

Judging by the title of the AMA you feel it is important to not only identify as an animator, but a female. Is that significant? Do you feel that it makes a difference in your job/career? Why?

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I think being a lady is great I'm proud of what my gender can do and it's been a good year for women in animation. Jennifer Lee won an Academy Award for Frozen and Christina Miller is the head of Cartoon Network. The important part of identifying as a women is that it encourages girls with dreams

Your art is amazing! Have you ever made any watercolor animations? I've heard that animating "ink" is extremely difficult.

http://imgur.com/axlQv2c

Thanks!

No but I really like the Princess kaguya movie from Miyazaki and I'd like to try out the style for my next piece if it suits.

How was it making the transition from hand drawn art to computer generated? Or did you learn these skills simultaneously?

Me and this noble creature

I think the tools you uses have nothing to do with your skills. If your know you principles you can learn to use any tool

This is such a cool idea! First a question I've often wondered about: do you think anyone can learn to draw, or is a person born with a certain amount of talent?

My photo: http://i.imgur.com/dtuNx7g.jpg

Thanks spoily swiss I think anyone can learn to do anything and your only as great as you push yourself but talent is when you make what you've learned your own. If you find a skill that is worth doing it's gotta be worth doing it well. The only limit is your head

Here you go spoilyswiss SPOILYSWISS !

Could you draw me wearing my favorite tiara?

Question: I find drawing frustrating because I can't make what I see in my mind appear on the paper. Do you, as a professional, experience that too?

https://twitter.com/traceyelleart/status/572232449922494464 here you go ;) (can't say no to a tiara )

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I love Haitian food so much but pizza is great too

What inspired you to do this?

I do this for my friends and now I'm doing it for you so now we're friends

Do I make the cut to be drawn ?

So what made you do determined to draw 50 redditors ?

https://twitter.com/traceyelleart/status/572260778994216960

heres your pic !!

What are your favorite subjects to draw? i.e, people, places, inanimate objects?

self image: http://i.imgur.com/lJshnMx.jpg

I like drawing dancers. when that sia video came out with maddie I was soooo pumped I drew it in my sketchbook here https://www.facebook.com/animatedesicions/photos/pb.1474465882840239.-2207520000.1425137878./1493699387583555/?type=3&src=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-xpa1%2Ft31.0-8%2F10661682_1493699387583555_390110733739897958_o.jpg&smallsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-xfa1%2Fv%2Ft1.0-9%2F10433121_1493699387583555_390110733739897958_n.jpg%3Foh%3D7506fedf1c7f7a70668010c9d0adc51c%26oe%3D559126B5&size=1872%2C864&fbid=1493699387583555

First one's done! http://i.imgur.com/hcr6jwm.jpg Who's next?

Your work is fantastic! When and how did you realize you had a talent for animation, or art in general?

http://imgur.com/EWklNls

Thank you! When I didn't know English, I used to use my art as a way to communicate things and my skills developed from there

Me

If you had a week all expenses paid and a plane ticket, where would you go?

Paris

What helped you develop such a distinctive style? Were you inspired by anything, or does it just kind of pour out of your head?

http://imgur.com/cjL6Ykd

I like at ALOT of illustrators (loish, tuna bora, john mahoney etc) and film makers (bad lurhmann, wes anderson, etc)

https://www.facebook.com/animatedesicions/photos/a.1474578822828945.1073741827.1474465882840239/1564160877204072/?type=1

heres your pic

Hey guys I have a couple done but I'm having trouble posting a pic anyone know how to post a pic or a link with a preview ?

http://i.imgur.com/EEgULo2.jpg

Great idea! How do you get new clients? Do many animators submit ideas and the customer picks the ideas that fit best?

Animators in the wild usually work in groups to find food, shelter and freelance jobs , sometimes a leader will emerge in the pack and it make a studio were they work for other larger creatures called ad agencies or production studios. Remember to not give the animator to much sunlight because the outside world confuses them

Which is your favourite pair of socks?

I got this foot socks with a rabbit on them rabbits are dope

http://imgur.com/lvu98MM

What specifically motivated you to become an animator in the first place?

English wasn't my first language and drawing helped me speak what I couldn't say I drew and I never stopped since

I'm working hard on your pictures, guys-- a couple new ones coming up in the next hour. I'm having so much fun, best Saturday ever!!

Me and my fiancee

I am terrible at drawing, what should I do to get better?

Draw and draw and draw some more, I made SO many bad drawings in my art career; just look at my deviantart!

The secret is practice. No amount of talent can cover for hard work.

HEY GUYS SO SORRY REDDIT SHUT #50headshots DOWN FOR NOW I'M GONNA WORK WITH THEM TO PUT IT BACK UP TILL THEN WE ARE GONNA MOVE THIS TO FB HERE https://www.facebook.com/animatedesicions OR MY TWITTER https://twitter.com/traceyelleart FOLLOW ME I WILL DEFINTELY KEEP POSTING PICS. IF I DON'T DRAW YOU THIS TIME SEND ME A MESSAGE WITH YOUR EMAIL I WILL BE DOING THIS AGAIN IN MARCH PEOPLE ON THE EMAIL LIST WILL GET A HEADS UP THE DAY BEFORE I GO LIVE #50HEADSHOT #TRACEYELLE #TRACEYELLEART

Why did Reddit shut you down??!?!

They said I need to show evidence of primary income

But i've been doing this for years as a freelancer

This is awesome! Here's my buddy Jacob.

What got you started into this style? It's really cool and unique.

lots of experimentation and doing bad drawings-- I started looking at what my favorite artists were doing and I mixed and matched what I liked in my own art.

What is your favourite animation? Me

MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI MIYAZAKI

How long do each of these take you? 50 seems like a lot of work!

Here's me, I'd love to be illustrated: http://m.imgur.com/ZiRXat1

an hour I will try to fit as many of you as possible hopefully i can do over 50