April 17th

Whoops! I forgot to post last week, so here it is.
I already watched severeal animation tutorials by Youtuber Draw With Jazza, including videos on how to distort different frames in an animation (squash, stretch, smear, etc.) and videos on how to draw different parts of a face separately and put them together during the animation process to make it look like authentic face movements. (Links are provided below)
I got my dad to install an animation app on my tablet, and I tested it with some keyframes I drew. It's pretty jumpy because it's only a test, though. I already drew several keyframes of the character I chose, including all the keyframes necessary for an axel jump (a type of figure skating spin). I've chosen the song I want to set it to and have all the keyframe mouths drawn for different vowels and consonants so I can make the character lip sync to the song. I still have a lot of key frames to draw if I want to fill the entire two minutes-ish song, though, and I'll need to draw plenty of in-between frames to make it move fluidly. The colored version of one of the keyframes and the test animation without in-between frames are provided below. The animation is of the character, Phichit Chulanont (from the anime Yuri!!! on Ice), doing a triple axel spin. I'm going to animate him to the song "Shall We Skate?" which he skates to in the show. The outfit he is wearing in the keyframes is the costume he wears every time he does this skate routine.
I still haven't decided on a non-internet source, but I'm hoping to find "The Animator's Survival Kit", a book detailing how to animate by hand that is highly recommended for beginners. The book is written by Richard Williams, the Director of Animation for the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. It includes tips, advice, and techniques on several types of animation, not just traditional hand-drawn, as well as information on the history of animation. I'll have to find it at a library or book store, though, and I don't know if my local library has copies. I'll need to do some research on this and other books on hand-drawn animation in order to find a good, available source.

Animation test: