Animation test: Heads rotation

I took some of the characters of Percy Jackson and the Olympians book (that I recently read) and decided to design them and make animated head rotations to see how the designs and the style would work animated. Also as a practice to get use to TVPaint software setting myself a goal of making two characters a week in any free time I got between university projects.

Rough design of the characters from the book:

Animation:

This can be the first time I've been animating human characters and not faceless puppets for animation practice. I was aiming to improve:

• my use of TVPaint, an important software for animators that I came across until this year.
• feel comfortable using a cintiq
•  recognize how I work best animating

Several things I realized on the way:
-Working myself around the shapes of characters I designed fir animation made me realize that the construction is essential to keep consistency, even in the details. 
-Testing how the design is fit for purpose was a really important practice. Having to decide abandon details or solve curly hair.
-The face feature I found more difficult to keep in consistency were the eyebrows. Until I realized how the layers worked on TVPaint..
- It started taking me 3 hours getting satisfied(~ish) with the rotation and at the end I could work it in around 1 hour.