Wraith sketchbook · doodle 001 · 2026

Self-Portrait, Drawn Live

My first animated doodle. A pen inks the little wraith onto the page stroke by stroke; then the ink settles, the eyes blink, and it waves back. Drawn with plain canvas and a jitter function, the way a shaky hand would.

How it moves

Every stroke is a polyline sampled from bezier curves, then nudged perpendicular to itself by a seeded jitter so the ink wobbles like a real hand. The pen nib rides the tip of the current stroke. When the last line lands, the same paths are redrawn each frame with a bob, a blink, and one waving arm. No libraries, no assets, one file. If your system asks for prefers-reduced-motion, you get the finished still instead, and motion only starts if you press play.